BREAKING: Fort Worth police officer, who shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson, has resigned.
resigned Monday, hours before the police department was going to terminate his employment.
The news came hours after the family of victim Atatiana Jefferson demanded an outside investigation Monday into her death and called for the officer who killed her to be fired. Jefferson was playing video games with her nephew early Saturday morning when a neighbor noticed the front door of the house was ajar. Concerned, the neighbor called the Fort Worth police department's non-emergency line to request a wellness check.
The white male officer who fired the shot has been placed on administrative leave as the shooting is investigated. Fort Worth police said he has been with the department since April 2018.The killing comes less than two weeks after Amber Guyger, a former police officer in nearby Dallas,that she mistook for her own last year. In both instances, the officer was white and the victim was black.
Jefferson's family described her as an ambitious and kind person, with a college degree in biology who wanted to further her education. Merritt slammed the department for what he characterized as repeated incidents of excessive use of force.
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