I'm not sure where Michael lived or for how long. I'm not sure if it's part of a crumbling narrative, poor reporting, or both since it seems both are present in this case, but there have been several versions.
It's strange. I wonder if there were any conditions about living arrangements due to criminal charges against him or others, or social services involvement, or subsidized housing restrictions or benefits that are making it so hard for a simple truth to be told. It almost sounds like he just couch surfed between family and friends. He was eighteen, a young man, so he could live wherever he chose, but the inability to pin that down seems odd.
1) He was visiting grandma, but didn't live there
"They told me how many times my son was shot. Eight," said McSpadden. She said he was visiting his grandmother, who lives in the complex, and was returning from the store.
http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/crim...olice-news-conference-michael-brown/13860601/
He was a good kid. He didnt live around here, said Desuirea Harris, grandmother of the victim. He came to visit me and they did that to him for no reason.
http://www.kmov.com/news/local/Heavy-police-presence--270609091.html
2) He lived with grandma
They never married, and Brown, who has two sisters and a brother, bounced between the homes his parents shared with their respective spouses. When his mother moved out of the school district, according to friends, Brown began living with his grandmother in the Canfield Green apartment complex.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...9b47ba-2ee2-11e4-9b98-848790384093_story.html
Livingston walked Daily RFT down Canfield to the low-slung apartment buildings where Brown was living with his grandmother. In the dimly lit front room, the family spoke fondly of the teenager. Some of them sat on the couch that he used as his bed. They say he slept like a rock on it, despite his big frame.
http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2014/08/mike_brown_shooting_ferguson_family.php
Good boy in a bad 'hood: Mike Mike, as the family called him (pictured with brother Andre, now 7 and sister Deja, now 14) had won a place at college and was told by his mother to 'do what he wanted this summer' as a reward. He chose to stay at his grandmother's house where the aspiring rapper had a makeshift studio
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...t-shocking-video-just-real-Michael-Brown.html
3) Michael lived with his two grandmothers, mother, and father in their respective homes?
Growing up, he lived under one roof with his parents, paternal grandparents and, later, a younger sister.
After his parents split up, he stayed with his mother though he remained close to all of his family, who lived near one another in north St. Louis County.
When his mother moved out of the Normandy District, he moved in with his paternal grandmother so he could remain at that school. But he continued to alternate between his parents and maternal grandmother.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/25/u...eeks-grappling-with-lifes-mysteries.html?_r=0
4) Michael lived with friends
Brown stayed at Canfield with friends and, earlier this year, with his grandmother at the adjacent Northwinds apartments.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ferguson-michael-brown-20140817-story.html
I honestly feel for him. It's hard to grow up with instability, if that's the case. Four different high schools tells a story, though.
