FORT WORTH — A psychologist who evaluated Aaron Dean before he was hired as a Fort Worth police officer testified Friday the former cop now convicted of...
Related:Dean shot Jefferson through her bedroom window from the backyard. A concerned neighbor called a nonemergency police line about 2:30 a.m. Oct. 12, 2019, because the home’s doors were open and the lights were on inside. Jefferson and her 8-year-old nephew, Zion Carr, were up late playing video games and left the doors open to air out smoke after they burned hamburgers at dinnertime.
Clayton told jurors applicants who do not pass the evaluation can appeal. Dean’s lawyers said a panel of three psychologists unanimously decided Dean was fit to be an officer. Dean gazed at the defense table as Clayton testified. He occasionally rubbed his face and pinched his nose. He frequently took sips of water from a cup before him. Dean, who was jailed after the jury’s verdict, had flat hair and it wasn’t gelled back as it has been throughout the trial.
Jurors also heard from Adarius Carr, Jefferson’s brother, who has been in the courtroom throughout the trial. He described Jefferson as a tomboy and stellar student. The punishment phase will be the first time jurors hear much about the kind of person Jefferson was. The guilt-innocence phase focused on Dean’s actions the night he killed Jefferson.“If I was playing basketball, she was playing with me,” he said. “If I was hanging out with my friends, she was playing with me.
He added: “She always wanted to be a doctor — I never heard her say anything else. School was super easy for her, I was almost jealous. I was a B-C student, she was always straight A’s kind of flawlessly.”“We had to fact-find to figure out what happened because we didn’t know anything,” Adarius Carr said. “We couldn’t have her body, her remains. [We had to] plan a funeral. Mom was ailing so we couldn’t really help her.
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