The family of the U.S. Air Force airman shot and killed by a deputy says he was devoted to improving the lives of a younger sister, brother and his mom.
The mother of an Air Force airman who wasshot and killedby a Florida sheriff's deputy last month said at a press conference Monday morning that she wants the deputy criminally charged. Eddie Duran, the Okaloosa Sheriff’s Office depu...
police received a disturbance call related to a male and female and that it was called in by an apartment complex’s leasing office. The recording refers to a Black male who had been shot “multiple” times in the chest.
Body camera video has been released after Senior Airman Roger Fortson was killed last week inside his own home in Florida. Fortson armed himself before answering the door. His family says the sheriff's deputy who shot him was at the wrong apartment.
ATLANTA (AP) — The teenage brother of a U.S. Air Force airman who was fatally shot in his home by a Florida sheriff's deputy in May has been killed in a shooting in the Atlanta area, police said.
A civil rights attorney says deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S.
Fortson’s death recalls other Black people killed in recent years by police in their homes. In 2018, a white Dallas police officer fatally shot Botham Jean, who was unarmed, after mistaking his apartment for her own. Amber Guyger, the former officer, wa...
“He was trying to give me everything that I never could get for myself,” his mother, Chantemekki Fortson, said Thursday at a news conference in Fort Walton Beach, where her son was living when he was killed. He was her “gift,” she said, the man...
This case has lots of twists and turns. But the basic story is that Princell LaCaze convinced her husband’s best friend to kill him. Mike LeCaze was shot and killed at his Natchitoches area home by his buddy Meryland Robinson on March 1, 1997. Robinson eventually told police how Princ...
A Nevada Air National Guardsman, who was shot and killed by a student at the middle school where he taught, has been praised as a hero. Witnesses said Master Sgt. Michael Landsberry, a former Marine, was trying to stop the 12-year-old gunman on the grounds of Sparks (Nev.) Middle ...