A former Fort Worth, Texas police officer was found guilty of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Atatiana Jefferson, who was in her home when he shot her.
Dean was called to the house with another officer after a neighbor called a nonemergency police line to report that the front door to Jefferson’s home was open. At trial, it was revealed that Jefferson and her nephew left the doors open to vent smoke from hamburgers the boy burned.Body camera footage of the incident showed Dean and the other officer did not identify themselves as a police officers.
Aaron Dean sits by himself during a recess after he was found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of Atatiana Jefferson, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022, at the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center in Fort Worth, Texas. Jefferson's nephew, Zion Carr, was in the room when his aunt was shot. He gave conflicting accounts of whether she pointed the gun out the window.
On the trial’s opening day, the now-11-year-old Carr testified that Jefferson always had the gun pointed down, but in an interview that was recorded soon after the shooting and played in court, he said she had pointed the weapon at the window.
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