Aaron Dean fatally shot Atatiana Jefferson while she was playing video games with her nephew
Ex-Fort Worth cop Aaron Dean. Photo: Tarrant County Jail Over the weekend, a Fort Worth cop shot and killed a black woman in her own home while she was playing video games with her 8-year-old nephew — a fatal use of excessive force that was met with widespread outcry. On Monday morning, the officer abruptly resigned after police say he failed to cooperate in their investigation of the murder. Now, he’s facing charges.
Around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, a neighbor had called a non-emergency police number requesting a welfare check on Jefferson’s residence after noticing that the doors to her house were open, according to Fort Worth police. This brought Dean to the scene, whose body camera captured the murder: In the footage, which the department released on Monday, Dean can be seen aiming his gun at one of Jefferson’s windows and yelling, “put your hands up,” without identifying that he was a police officer.
“On behalf of the Fort Worth Police Department, I am so sorry for what occurred,” Kraus said, adding that the department would continue its “administrative investigation” as though Dean’s employment had not been terminated. Just this month, ex-Dallas cop Amber Guyger was handed a lenient 10-year sentence for murdering Botham Jean in his own home — a case disturbingly reminiscent of Jefferson’s fatal shooting, which took place a mere 30 miles away. As a result, the Dallas-Fort Worth community’s trust in the police department is at an all-time low, and Jefferson’s family is urging the Fort Worth department recuses themselves from the investigation, and to instead allows an outside agency to conduct the probe.
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