Trial to start for Texas cop who shot Black woman in home

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Published December 4, 2022 10:01 PM

By JAKE BLEIBERG
Associated Press

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A white former police officer is set to go on trial Monday for fatally shooting a Black woman through a rear window of her Texas home as the officer responded to a call about an open front door in 2019. The murder case has been delayed for more than three years since Aaron Dean killed Atatiana Jefferson in Fort Worth. The officer quit and was charged two days after the footage showed him shooting Jefferson without knocking or identifying himself as police. He pleaded not guilty. Jefferson had been playing with her nephew, who later said she pulled out a gun after hearing suspicious noises behind the house.

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