(14 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Atlanta – 14 May 2024
1. Various of hearse carrying Fortson’s body being transferred and transported
STORYLINE:
The body of U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Roger Fortson was returned to Atlanta Tuesday.
The 23-year-old man was was gunned down by a Florida sheriff’s deputy while holding a firearm in the doorway of his apartment earlier this month.
His body arrived in a casket as Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport by the Air Force via dignified transfer.
Deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot Fortson who was home alone when they saw he was armed with a gun, according to an attorney representing his family.
Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, who was based at the Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, was in his off-base apartment in Fort Walton Beach when the shooting happened on May 3.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said in a statement that Fortson was on a Facetime call with a woman at the time of the encounter.
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