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.
In 2018, a white former Dallas police offer fatally shot Botham Jean, an unarmed Black man, after mistaking his apartment for her own. Amber Guyger, the former officer, wasfound guiltyof murder the following year and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. ...
FILE - This photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, shows Senior Airman Roger Fortson in a Dec. 24, 2019, photo. (U.S. Air Force via AP, File) FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Just two days before a sheriff's deputy inFloridashot him dead, 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...
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...
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.
According to an unverified audio recording of a dispatch callposted on Facebook, 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 “mu...
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.
A Florida sheriff on Friday fired a deputy who fatally shot an airman at his home while holding a handgun pointed to the ground, saying the deputy’s life was never in danger and he should not have fired his weapon.
MORE: '6 shots in the back': Murder trial opens in police shooting death of Casey Goodson Jr. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the Fortson family, said at Monday's press conference that the deputy went to the ...