Aaron Dean, the former police officer who shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson in 2019, received an 11-year, 10-month prison sentence after a Fort Worth jury unanimously convicted him of manslaughter last week.
Aaron Dean, a former Fort Worth police officer, enters Tarrant County's 396th District Court on Dec. 15, 2022. On Tuesday, he was sentenced to 11 years and 10 months in prison., our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
In 2019, a neighbor called a nonemergency police line, requesting a wellness check on Jefferson’s mother’s home, where Jefferson was watching her nephew. Aaron Dean, 38, a white police officer, responded to the call and shot Jefferson, a 28-year-old Black woman, through the window. He resigned from the Fort Worth Police Department days later, before theJefferson’s 8-year-old nephew was in the room at the time she was killed. They had stayed up late playing video games.
The shooting came less than two weeks after former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the murder of 26-year-old Botham Jean in his Dallas home. Guyger said she mistook Jean’s apartment for her own, one floor below, and shot and killed him after entering it.
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