BREAKING: The former Texas officer who shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson through a window in her home in October 2019 has been found guilty of manslaughter.
A former Texas officer who shot and killed a Black woman through a window in her home in October 2019 was found guilty of manslaughter on Thursday., a 28-year-old Black woman had been playing video games at home with her 8-year-old nephew before she was shot. Dean was responding to Jefferson's home after a concerned neighbor called a nonemergency line around 2 a.m. to say he noticed an open front door.
Bob Gill, a defense attorney for Dean, said that while Jefferson’s death was tragic,"a tragedy doesn’t always equal a crime" and the former officer was acting in self-defense when he shot Jefferson after seeing a gun in the window.Gill said Jefferson had the right to protect herself and her home"up until the point that she pointed a firearm at a Fort Worth police officer."
“I thought we had a burglar and so I stepped back, straightened up and drew my weapon and then pointed it towards the figure,” he said. Prosecutor R. Dale Smith, in his rebuttal on Wednesday sought to cast doubt on Dean's testimony about seeing a gun before shooting Jefferson, saying that after Dean shot her, he continued to stand in front of the window and did not tell his partner when they entered the home that he had seen a weapon, “because he wasn’t sure what was on the other side of that window.”
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