He was sent for a welfare check, not to investigate a possible crime.
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The East Allen Avenue shooting was the seventh time since June 1 that a
Fort Worth police officer has shot a civilian. Six of those people died.
The determination of police Internal Affairs Unit reviews of those cases
or whether grand juries have considered them was not clear.
Body-worn camera video police released shows two officers using flashlights
to check the perimeter of the house, inspecting two doors that are open
with closed screen doors. At the back of house, one officer appears to see
a figure through a dark window, and he quickly twists his body to the left.
“Put your hands up! Show me your hands!” he shouts through the window,
his gun drawn. He then fires a single shot through the window.
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/fort-worth/article236067328.html
Atatiana Jefferson, 28, died in a bedroom, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Officers responded at 2:25 a.m. to the house in the 1200 block of East Allen Avenue. James Smith, who called a non-emergency police number, said he saw the doors were open and the lights were on, which struck him as unusual. He knew Jefferson, his neighbor, was home with her 8-year-old nephew.
Police parked around the corner, and the woman could not see them, according to Smith, 62. About 15 minutes later, he said, he heard a loud bang and saw several more officers rush inside.
Things would have turned out so much better had he gone to the door and called in “is everything okay?” as used to be the norm every where, and as still is the norm where they have competent police forces.