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A Ferguson protester featured in the iconic photograph taken during the demonstrations after the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown died Thursday night of a reported self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Edward Crawford’s death was confirmed by his father, Edward Crawford Sr., to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Friday morning.

The 27-year-old from University City, Missouri, rose to local fame after the photograph of him hurling a smoking tear gas canister during the Michael Brown protests went viral. The image was part of the Post-Dispatch’s coverage of the Ferguson protests that won it a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography in 2015.

St. Louis Police did not share many details about Crawford’s death, his father told the Post-Dispatch. But Crawford Sr. does not believe the shooting was intentional.

“I don’t believe it was a suicide,” he said, adding that investigators were “being hush-hush.”

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