FERGUSON — A Ferguson officer who suffered a severe brain injury while making an arrest last year has begun writing short messages and doing rehabilitative exercises, his family says.

Officer Travis Brown remains focused on making a full recovery in rehab in Nebraska, his family said Sunday during a communal prayer outside the Ferguson Police Department.

"He wrote the other day that 'I will walk again and I will run again,'" said Brown's father, Clyde Bailey, a retired St. Louis police sergeant. "He is determined."

About 100 city officials, police officers and firefighters, faith leaders and residents gathered outside the police station to support Brown and his family.

"Continue to keep him in your prayers and continue to lift up this family," Mayor Ella Jones said. "They need our pray

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