Fort Worth shooting: Nephew describes moments before shooting

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

An 8-year-old boy was in the room when his aunt was fatally shot while playing video games in her home by a Fort Worth officer who never announced that he was a police officer, authorities and the family confirmed.

Investigators were scheduled Monday to interview the officer who shot Atatiana "Tay" Jefferson, 28, early Saturday morning, police Lt.
Brandon O’Neil said. Police also released audio of a neighbor's calm call to a non-emergency phone number that sent police to the home.

Jefferson, who was black, worked as a pharmaceutical sales representative. The officer, who is white, has served on the force for 18 months, police said. The shooting took place less than two weeks after former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was convicted of murdering Botham Jean, a black man shot in 2018 as he ate ice cream in his home.

S. Lee Merritt, a lawyer for Jefferson's family, said the victim's nephew told him the duo had been up late playing "Halo" – with the doors open to enjoy the cool fall breeze – when they heard noise outside her bedroom window.

"They looked at each other and listened more intently when they heard it again," Merritt said in a social media post. "Someone was outside."

Merritt said the nephew described how his aunt went to the window to see who was there.

"Suddenly a man's voice was screaming something he couldn't make out, and then 'bang,'" Merritt said. Jefferson fell to the floor. Merritt said he didn't ask the child what he saw next because he didn't want him "to have to relive that" with him.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fort-worth-shooting-nephew-describes-moments-before-shooting/ar-AAILolt?li=BBnb7Kz

[MagickMuffin]

1. 4 SECONDS before he murdered Tay

4 SECONDS

[dawg day]

9. Remember Tamir Rice?

Same thing. And not only was there no real danger in each of these, there wasn't even a perception of danger (the Rice murderer was in a car, this murderer was outside and could have moved out of range of any weapon).

How are they vetting and training these cops? These are big city police departments!

[MagickMuffin]

24. I live in Fort Worth

It isn't getting any better. The enforcers are never held accountable for their crimes against humanity.

[Lucid Dreamer]

2. It wasn't even an emergency call.

Some neighbor noticed the front door was open and called the non-emerg number just to ask for a welfare check. All the officer had to do is knock and say "Everybody alright?" and everybody is happy.

This will be hard to defend.

[HAB911]

3. A better line of business for the cop would be

flipping burgers

although I would not like him cooking mine

[Crunchy Frog]

25. Better line of business would be making license plates. Or maybe working on a chain gang.

[HAB911]

30. +++++++++++

Now for sure. He should have chosen burgers much earlier in his career plan!

[maxsolomon]

4. Don't call the cops. Go over yourself and check.

It's your neighbors; you should know them well enough to do that.

[GemDigger]

7. I don't know my neighbors. And in this day and age I certainly would not go to someones open

door (know them or not) and have the possibility getting shot/harmed in the process.

[maxsolomon]

10. I do, and they know me.

They wouldn't shoot me, either, because I'm going to knock and call for them by name.

So I'll amend: IF you know your neighbors, go over and inquire.

Alternately, if you don't know them, STAY THE FUCK OUT OF IT. You call the cops because their door is open on the 1st cool evening of the fall? Mind your own goddamn business.

[GemDigger]

12. Aren't you lucky.

Could you live with your conscious if the following morning you find out your neighbor is dead and you noticed something amiss and you did nothing?

[maxsolomon]

15. that scenario is an exceedingly remote possibility.

particularly in my neighborhood. so yes, i'm lucky that way, but we have all also made a conscious decision to know each other.

cops killing unarmed black people is a less remote possibility.

[GemDigger]

17. I see your "reason and empathy" working.

[maxsolomon]

19. i see your paranoia working.

learn who your neighbors are.

[GemDigger]

20. No, you see my empathy working for a woman who was shot dead by a cop in

4 seconds without warning and you are blaming the neighbor for not minding his own fucking business. My empathy would be the same if shw was killed by an intruder.

As far as you TELLING me what to do. Mind your own.

[Maru Kitteh]

13. How ugly, to blame the poor man trying to be a good neighbor instead of the murderous

jackboot that actually killed the woman.

[maxsolomon]

16. oh, that's "ugly"?

calling a police officer a "murderous jackboot" instead of a "jumpy, under-trained incompetent" is kind of ugly, too.

[Crunchy Frog]

26. Well he did actually murder someone. n/t

[malaise]

5. Cold blooded murder

That simple

[LanternWaste]

6. Some additional context about the open door.

Friday evening was pretty much the first day since April or May that we (residents of Fort Worth-Dallas) could actually open a door or window to let in the cool air. September had been brutally hot (only one day the entire month the temp got below 94 degrees), and the first week and half of October came in the same hot, muggy way.

I'd imagine a LOT of people in the area took advantage of the cold front to air out the house, let in fresh air and turn off the air conditioner for the first time since last spring. I myself had the patio door open as well as the front door to create a wind tunnel through my place, air it out and enjoy (rather than struggle through) the weather.

I relay this because on another thread, someone was criticizing her (naturally) for simply having the door open.

[GemDigger]

8. Your last line threw me for a loop.

Some people are so … cold, heartless, or just need something to say to get attention.

[maxsolomon]

11. Human nature is to blame the victim.

That impulse has to be fought against, with reason and empathy.

[Maru Kitteh]

14. Says the person who heaps blame on her neighbor. How enlightened.

[maxsolomon]

18. the ignore button is right there.

use it.

[LanternWaste]

22. What leads you to say that?

Is it simply an opinion, or have there been anthro/socio-studies done that conclude that?

[JCMach1]

21. Exactly, her screen door was closed...

[cwydro]

23. I don't have a screen door.

My front door has been open since the weather finally cooled off.

Hope this doesn’t mean I’ll be shot.

[JCMach1]

27. Heat has been oppressive here this Summer and if I had a screen door, it would have been open

and yes, I had my windows open and was playing video games with my 8yo son.

This level of BS, pattern of incompetence (in Ft. Worth) scares the crap out of me.

[Lucid Dreamer]

28. Breaking: Officer Aaron Dean has resigned from the Ft. Worth police force. nt

[doc03]

29. They claim there was a pistol on the floor. Was that

the drop weapon cops carry or was it her's? Even if she had the gun in her hand she had the right to defend herself in her own house. Murderers are always getting off because of the damn Castle Docturn or Stand your Ground.