Former Officer Could Face Charges In Fatal Shooting

October 14, 2019 10:25 am

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – Fort Worth’s interim police chief says he expects a “substantial update” by Tuesday on whether a former police officer will be criminally charged in the shooting death  of a black woman inside her home.  Interim Chief Ed Kraus said Monday that Officer Aaron Dean would have been fired had he not resigned following Saturday’s shooting death of 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson.  Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price called for “justice and closure” for Jefferson’s family.  Officers had responded to Jefferson’s home on a neighbor’s report of an open door. An  attorney for Jefferson’s family says she was playing video games with her 8-year-old nephew when a shot was fired into her window, killing her.  Kraus said Monday that there’s no sign that officers knocked on the front door and that the shot was fired from within the fenced-off backyard.