From the Associated Press
A white former Fort Worth police officer has been booked in jail on a murder charge for the shooting of a black woman through a window in her home.
Aaron Dean was booked Monday afternoon. He also resigned from the police department, and the chief said he would have been fired if he didn’t quit.
Atatiana Jefferson was shot to death Saturday by Dean, who was responding to a report of an open door. Interim Police Chief Ed Kraus said Monday that there’s no indication the officers knocked on the front door, and that Jefferson died from a gunshot fired through a window accessible from the fenced-in back yard.
#UPDATE
Aaron Dean was arrested by Fort Worth Police
on Oct. 14. Dean has been charged with
murder of Atatiana Jefferson. Dean is in
the Tarrant County Jail.Interim @chiefkraus will schedule a News
Conference for Oct. 15 at Bob Bolen. That time has not been determined yet. pic.twitter.com/eRZfMWtgM4— Fort Worth Police (@fortworthpd) October 15, 2019
Bond has been set at $200,000. The Fort Worth Police Department issued a statement on the arrest via Twitter . . .
#UPDATE on the arrest of Aaron Dean: pic.twitter.com/owb3IiozOl
— Fort Worth Police (@fortworthpd) October 15, 2019