A casket bearing the name of Atatiana Jefferson and other people shot by Fort Worth police was left outside Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker’s home Saturday...
between police and robbery suspects in 2018 that also killed Fort Worth Officer Garrett Hull. Both Collie and Steptoe were Black.
According to a police report, officers responded to the mayor’s residence in the Ridglea North neighborhood near Interstate 30 and Camp Bowie Boulevard about 8:30 a.m. The report says the incident is being investigated as a terroristic threat. Fort Worth police confirmed officers responded to a disturbance call at the home but said no additional information could be released because of the ongoing investigation.What to know about the trial for Aaron Dean, the ex-Fort Worth cop facing a murder chargeDean, now 38, was one of two officers who arrived at Jefferson’s home early Oct. 12, 2019, after a neighbor called a nonemergency police number to report that the house’s front door was open., grabbed her gun after hearing a noise outside.
Dean was arrested on a murder charge two days after the shooting and resigned from the department before he could be fired. His much-delayed trial began this week. Although some of the 12 jurors and two alternates are people of color,Tarrant County prosecutors rested their case Wednesday, after 10 witnesses testified over three days in the trial — surprising lawyers and observers and angering activists. Testimony will resume Monday.
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