Home ENTERTAINMENT Officer who killed woman in home wasn’t asked to do welfare check (ASL – 10.17.19)
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According to officials, Fort Worth officer, Aaron Dean, who shot Atatiana Jefferson on Saturday wasn’t actually asked to do a wellness check.
When Jefferson’s neighbor called police, he says he expected them to go check to see if she was okay.
But Dean who shot her in her own home was sent on a call that police often handle as a potential burglary.
Authorities are looking into what Dean and his partner were told before arriving to Jefferson’s home.
A police official says the information was relayed to officers as an “open call structure” meaning that classification escalated things beyond a welfare check and meant the officers would respond differently.
This was even though Jefferson’s neighbor called for welfare check.
Body camera footage from the shooting shows Dean peering through two open windows and walking around the perimeter of the house.
He then pointed his weapon at a window and yelled “Put up your hands! Show me your hands!” seconds before shooting Jefferson.
Retired Fort Worth chief, Jeff Halstead, said there was nothing in the body camera footage after the shooting suggesting there was a crime happening and called the officer’s behavior “extremely concerning.”
Dean resigned from the department on Monday and was arrested and charged with murder.
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