A former Fort Worth police officer was sentenced Tuesday to more than 11 years in prison after he was convicted last week of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Atatiana Jefferson in 2019. Jefferson was playing video games with her nephew in her bedroom at the back of the house when she heard noises outside …
A Texas jury deliberated for 13 hours before finding former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean guilty of manslaughter on Thursday in the fatal shooting of Atatiana Jefferson in October 2019. Dean shot and killed Jefferson, 28, with a single shot through her bedroom window on October 12 after a neighbor asked for a welfare …
Yolanda Carr, the mother of Atatiana Jefferson, died at home on Thursday, three months after a Fort Worth police officer shot and killed her daughter in the same house, an attorney linked to the family said. We just learned Yolanda Carr, the mother of #AtatianaJefferson, passed away in her home early Thursday morning. Atatiana was …
A Texas officer who fatally shot a resident in her own home last month was filmed saying, without hesitation, that he has no issue killing someone during a recently-released job interview video. KXAS obtained footage of Aaron Dean’s 2017 interview with the Fort Worth Police Department. During the 17-minute video, a five-officer review panel asked …
The Texas officer who fatally shot a woman inside her home this weekend was sent to handle a possible burglarly — not a wellness check as requested by the neighbor who called police. In a press release issued shortly after the shooting, Fort Worth police said that officers were dispatched to Atatiana Jefferson’s home amid …
Former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean has been arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of Atatiana Jefferson in her home, CBS DFW reported. The arrest came just hours after Dean, who is white, resigned ahead of being fired over the weekend incident. Jefferson, 28, was playing video games with her 8-year-old …
The police officer who reportedly shot and killed a Texas woman inside of her own home this weekend has resigned amid calls for his arrest. On Monday, Fort Worth police interim Chief Ed Kraus identified the officer who killed Atatiana Jefferson, 28, as Aaron Dean, and said he issued his resignation before he could be …
