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.
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...
Crump released a statement later saying the officer did not tell Fortson to drop his gun before shooting “multiple times within a split second of the door being opened.” “We remain adamant that the police had the wrong apartment as Roger was on the phone ...
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...
Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, died at his off-base residence, the U.S. Air Force said in a statement released Monday. He was at his home at Chez Elan Apartments, around five miles from the air base,reported WKRG. A deputy responding to the call of a disturbance in progress "react...
investigation, Hernandez opened fire on the vehicle, believing the shot came from inside, where a suspect in an alleged auto theft sat after being restrained and searched. The man, who is Black, was uninjured in the shooting. The sheriff’s office determined Hernandez’ use ...
Fortson, 23, was shot six times, said Crump, who attributed his account of the shooting to the woman, a witness who the airman had been FaceTiming with during the incident. According to that woman, Crump said, Fortson heard a knock on his door, and when he asked who ...
Girlfriend of US Airman killed by Florida deputy speaks out U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, was in his home when he was shot by a Florida deputy on May 3. May 16, 2024 Additional Live Streams Additional Live Streams ...
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. Andre Fortson, Senior Airman Roger Fortson's 16-y...
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.