The body of Senior Airman Roger Fortson, who was fatally shot by a Florida sheriff's deputy on May 3, will be returned to his family Tuesday in Atlanta.
The body of 23-year-old Senior US Airman Roger Fortson, who was fatally shot by a Florida sheriff's deputy on May 3, will be returned to his family in Atlanta.The Air Force is conducting a dignified transfer of Fortson's body to his family and civil rights attorney Ben Crump at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
'In the four-and-a-half minute, heavily redacted video, it is very troubling that the deputy gave no verbal commands and shot multiple times within a split second of the door being opened, killing Roger,' Fortson's family said in a statement.
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