FORT WORTH — Jurors are weighing Monday the sentence for Aaron Dean, the former Fort Worth officer convicted of manslaughter for the 2019 killing of Atatiana...
Updated at 10:15 a.m. with details from closing arguments. Updated at 9:57 a.m. to reflect the jury began deliberating Dean's sentence.
Deener paced back and forth before the jury as she spoke. Some jurors watched her while others gazed at the photo on a screen of Jefferson smiling in her college graduation gown. “If you take the emotion out of their remarks, there’s really very little left,” Gill said. “Aaron Dean is literally being judged for a second of his life today.”
A spectator was arrested during the trial’s punishment phase last week. Manuel Mata, 42, was taken into custody by sheriff’s deputies after defense lawyers tried to have him sworn in as a witness. Mata refused to take the oath. State District Judge George Gallagher said Mata was out on bond and declared his bonds insufficient.
Ashley Carr, Jefferson’s oldest sister, told jurors that since Jefferson’s death, Zion struggles with emotional outbursts and often misses school. TheDean’s mother, brother and sister also took the stand Friday, and Dean’s mother told jurors he liked to dote on his sister when he was a child. The defense also called to the stand Fort Worth police detective Thomas Dugan, who testified that Dean was “pretty torn up” after killing Jefferson.
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