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 …
Marquis Jefferson, father a 28-year-old Texas woman who was shot and killed in her own home by a Fort Worth police officer last month, has died, sources have told CBS DFW. The cause of his death was not immediately known. Atatiana Jefferson was playing video games in her home with her 8-year-old nephew on October …
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 …
A Dallas probate judge signed a temporary restraining order on Friday against Atatiana Jefferson’s family, stopping her funeral and burial and giving full authority for the services to her father, Marquis Jefferson, WFAA reported. Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was playing video games with her nephew in her home on October 5 when she was shot and …
The Texas police officer who resigned just before he was arrested on murder charges has been released on $200,000 bail. USA Today reports that former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean was freed on bail Monday night, hours after his arrest. Earlier Monday, Dean resigned from the department before he could be fired. Dean, who …
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 …
