It's a rare conviction of a cop for killing someone who was also armed. The Texas officer learned his fate at the end of a lengthy trial that had the nation at the edge of their seats.
A Texas jury reached a verdict in the murder trial of former officer Aaron Dean, who was charged with killing Atatiana Jefferson.A former Texas police officer who fatally shot Atatiana Jefferson through a rear window of her home in 2019 was sentenced Tuesday to 11 years and 10 months in prison for his manslaughter conviction.Aaron Dean, 38, had faced up to 20 years in prison, but jurors also had the option of sentencing him to probation.
Dean shot Jefferson on Oct. 12, 2019, after a neighbor called a nonemergency police line to report that the front door to Jefferson's home was open. She had been playing video games that night with her 8-year-old nephew and it emerged at trial that they left the doors open to vent smoke from hamburgers the boy burnt.
Body camera footage showed that Dean and a second officer who responded to the call didn't identify themselves as police at the house. Dean and Officer Carol Darch testified that they thought the house might have been burglarized and quietly moved into the fenced-off backyard looking for signs of forced entry.
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