JUST IN: A former police officer who shot Atatiana Jefferson to death in her Texas home is sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison
Aaron Dean, the 38-year-old White former Fort Worth police officer, had faced up to 20 years in prison for killing Jefferson, a 28-year-old Black woman. Dean, in a gray suit, stood in court and showed no emotion as the verdict was read. Jefferson’s relatives read impact statements after the sentence of 11 years, 10 months and 12 days in prison was announced. The jury began deliberating on the sentence on Monday after convicting Dean last Thursday.
The guilty verdict came more than three years after the deadly encounter in which Dean and his partner responded to Jefferson’s house around 2:25 a.m. on October 12, 2019. They arrived at her house after a neighbor called a non-emergency police line to report that her doors were open. They did not announce themselves as police at the home, and Dean then fatally shot through a bedroom window at Jefferson, who had been playing video games with her nephew, who was 8.
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