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Former sheriff’s deputy charged with manslaughter for shooting airmen in his home
AmmoLand ^ | September 3, 2024 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 09/10/2024 5:20:23 AM PDT by marktwain

On May 3, 2024, a Florida Okaloosa County Sheriff Deputy shot and killed Senior Airman Roger Fortson. The deputy, Eddie Duran, was responding to a false, anonymous tip about supposed domestic violence in an apartment complex.

Fortson was playing with his dog and on the phone with his girlfriend. When Roger Fortson realized someone was insistently knocking on the door and demanding entry, he accessed his legally owned pistol, and with the pistol held by his side, pointed at the floor, opened the door.

The deputy immediately shot Fortson several times, then demanded Fortson “drop the gun”. Fortson’s pistol was already on the floor. Fortson was on the floor, mortally wounded, dying.

After an internal investigation by the Sheriff’s Department, Fortson was fired. The Sheriff’s Office did not file criminal charges as the incident was being criminally investigated by an independent agency, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. AmmoLand covered the tragic incident four months ago.

Former deputy Eddie Duran has been charged with manslaughter. He has been arrested. He is currently out on a bond of $100,000.

This horrible tragedy underscores how critical it is to be aware and make the right decisions when a person is considering using deadly force. Duran made some very bad decisions. It cost Roger Fortson his life. His family and others near him will live with the pain of his loss for a very long time. His mother made this statement after former deputy Duran was charged. From wfla.com:

“I hope this brings about change and it teaches others that you can’t just kill people,” his mother Chantemekki Fortson said Friday after learning of the charges. “Because he should have waited for back up. And investigated a little more.”


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To: marktwain

Half of the sheriffs are below average.


21 posted on 09/10/2024 6:13:23 AM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: marktwain
So many questions from the title ...

How many airmen were shot? The title implies more than one.

Initially reading the title, I first assumed that it meant that the former deputy was shooting at airplanes (and the pilots) from his (the deputy's) home. From his front porch maybe?

Then I assumed that the former deputy had shot the airmen (plural?) in his (the deputy's) home ... like a home invasion?

I know .. I know .. I'm so easily confused these days.

22 posted on 09/10/2024 6:22:30 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])
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To: marktwain

Never open the door. Peep hole, talk through it.


23 posted on 09/10/2024 6:23:51 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: marktwain

I agree but this has to be a winner in the WEIRD names category - “his mother Chantemekki”. I’m sorry but that’s just plain weird....


24 posted on 09/10/2024 6:34:40 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
When I was renovating my kitchen, I installed a small kitchen window looking obliquely onto my front porch and the door. Before answering the door, I walk to the kitchen and look through the window, which also allows me to question the individual at my door.

On the off-chance that the individual may be armed, I also installed 3'x 5' plate of 1" steel onto the 2x4 studs beneath the window and behind the sink for a place to duck.

25 posted on 09/10/2024 6:37:47 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])
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To: Ikeon

If it was shoot first ask later, the deputy would have been shot through the door smart ass.

Opening the door with a handgun at his side, was a fatal choice in this case, but plenty of people have done that for decades. People

Cop should be charged with 2nd degree murder.

Take your pansy ass back over to DU, and stay there. We don’t appreciate your BS here like the will.


26 posted on 09/10/2024 6:40:31 AM PDT by SPDSHDW (Execute Order 66....)
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To: Red Badger
"AirMAN, nor Airmen"

"Stockdale and Whiteledge"

"Sounds like something out of the funny books."

27 posted on 09/10/2024 6:41:09 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: BlueLancer
On the off-chance that the individual may be armed, I also installed 3'x 5' plate of 1" steel onto the 2x4 studs beneath the window and behind the sink for a place to duck.

You are thinking ahead.

28 posted on 09/10/2024 6:41:19 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: marktwain

WOW! Reminds me of a police raid from 1971! Anyone remember it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Ballew_raid


29 posted on 09/10/2024 6:44:01 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: marktwain

Opening the door to your own home with a weapon ‘brandished’ and not brought to bear is foolish, no matter the details.

Regardless the officer’s poor decisions and the circumstances of his call to the address, there are lessons to be learned from such an encounter. Forston also made poor decisions (based upon the article details).

I mean, holy cow: A peephole is a lousy 5-10 bucks and wi-fi camera options start at under 20.


30 posted on 09/10/2024 6:45:38 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I should add that after the Ken Ballew raid(1971) there was a bumper sticker among gun owners.

“KEN BALLEW COULD BE YOU!”

Now , “Senior Airman Roger Fortson COULD BE YOU!”


31 posted on 09/10/2024 6:47:16 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: logi_cal869

“there are lessons to be learned from such an encounter.”

Agreed.


32 posted on 09/10/2024 7:02:16 AM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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To: READINABLUESTATE

Whoever swatted him should be charged with manslaughter, as well.


33 posted on 09/10/2024 7:39:53 AM PDT by Homer1
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To: BlueLancer
I also installed 3'x 5' plate of 1" steel

That will probably stop .50BMG ...

34 posted on 09/10/2024 7:43:14 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: BlueLancer

closed circuit and metal plates, much better than a peep hole with a thin wooden door.


35 posted on 09/10/2024 7:46:22 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma deuce)
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36 posted on 09/10/2024 7:51:06 AM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: going hot
...much better than a peep hole with a thin wooden door.

Already thought of the door ... heavy solid metal door with a 3" throw deadbolt and hidden hinges with 3" deck screws into the 4x4 frame . In fact, it almost worked against me. When my wife had a seizure while I was at work, she was just able to get to the phone and call 911. But she was collapsed in the front bathroom, the front door was locked, and I was at work. It took the Sheriff's Department, EMS, and the fire department almost 45 minutes to break through the door. They didn't even waste the effort and try the windows. I had to rebuild the area around the front door and purchase another door replacement.

37 posted on 09/10/2024 7:58:16 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])
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To: NorthMountain
That will probably stop .50BMG ...

It depends on the steel. Some 1" steel will stop a .50 cal, some will not. It is right on the edge of what a .50 will penetrate.

38 posted on 09/10/2024 7:58:18 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: Ikeon

“Do you need to be armed in your own home? “

Where do you think is best to be armed??

More people are killed in their home than anywhere else.

Anti-gun liberals are bigots. You claim people shouldn’t have guns in public and to keep them at home, now you idiots claim not to have them in the home, either.


39 posted on 09/10/2024 7:58:25 AM PDT by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: T. P. Pole

They fired him, they didn’t do the investigation that was done by outside people. He’s being charged with manslaughter, looking at 30 years in prison.


40 posted on 09/10/2024 8:05:00 AM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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