The family of the senior US airman who was fatally shot by a Florida deputy is calling for justice, peace and understanding around the May 3 killing.
The last time Roger Fortson's older sister Raven talked to him, her 23-year-old brother was at the park with his beloved dog.He was 'so happy,' the emotional 29-year-old recalled as she stood inside New Birth Missionary Baptist Church on Thursday at her brother's wake.They were joking about his dog, Chloe, potentially getting pregnant at the dog park and how Fortson would become a grandfather.
'It reiterates that it was not the right apartment,' Crump said. 'The police already know before they get there that the disturbance was a male and female. They got that information from the front desk at the leasing office.'Okaloosa Sheriff Eric Aden called Crump's claims that the deputy entered the wrong apartment false.'He's not going to tell me he went to the right place,' said Chantemekki Fortson, the senior airman's mother.
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