The trial began for the former officer charged in fatal police shooting of Atatiana Jefferson in 2019.
Aaron Dean walks into the courtroom for a recusal hearing on Judge David Hagerman's status in the former Fort Worth officer's murder case on June 23, 2022, in Fort Worth, Texas. Dean is awaiting trial after he shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson in her home in Oct. 2019.in the 2019 fatal shooting of Atatiana Jefferson began Monday after several delays.
Dean is charged with murder in the death of Jefferson, a Black woman who was allegedly fatally shot by Dean inside her Fort Worth, Texas, home on Oct. 12. The front door appears open in the body-camera footage, but a screen door looks to be closed in front of it. The officerOfficials said the officers walked around the back of the house and that one of the officers observed a person through the rear window of the home and opened fire.
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