Few other details have been released about the shooting, including the type of disturbance the sheriff’s office was responding to. The office late Tuesday declined to release body camera footage, an incident report and other recordings related to the shooting to Air Force Times,...
Okaloosa Sheriff’s Deputy Jesse Hernandez resigned in November afteran officer-involved shooting, during which he mistook a falling acorn striking his patrol vehicle for a gun shot.According to an investigation, Hernandez opened fire on the vehicle, believing the shot came from ...
Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, who was based at the Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, was in his off-base apartment in Fort Walton Beach when the shooting happened on May 3. Civil rights attorneyBen Crumpsaid in a statement that Fortson was on a Facetime call with a woman at...
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.
Bodycam video shows a Florida sheriff’s deputy announced himself as law enforcement just before fatally shooting a Black U.S. Air Force airman in his apartment.
Texas. That shooting left 26 people died and at least 20 others injured. TheU.S. Air Force had failed to submit the shooter's criminal history, that is, his court martial over bad conduct, to the FBI, as required by Pentagon rules. His historyshould have barred him from purchasing guns...
A shooting on Wednesday afternoon in Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii left three dead, including the gunman. "These acts are crimes against all of us," Acting Secretary of the U.S. Navy Thomas Modly said in a statement. "It is our solemn duty to find the causes of such tragic los...
Fortson died at a hospital, officials said. The deputy involved in the shooting was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation. The woman said Fortson wasn't causing a disturbance during their Facetime call and believes that the deputies must have had the wrong apartment, Crump's st...
Body camera video shows fatal shooting of Black airman by Florida deputy in apartment doorway May 9, 2024 “This tragic incident should have never occurred,” Aden said in his statement. “The objective facts do not support the use of deadly force as an appropriate respons...
his family and their lawyer are demanding that prosecutors decide whether to bring charges against the former lawman. At a Friday news conference, civil rights attorney Ben Crump questioned why the investigation has taken so long, noting that the shooting of Senior Airman Roger Fortson was captured...