Posted on 10/15/2019 12:39:14 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A murder warrant for Aaron Dean, the Fort Worth officer who killed Atatiana Jefferson, tells what led up to the shooting from the perspective of her 8-year-old nephew, who was in the room with her when she was shot.
The boy told a forensic interviewer that he and his aunt were playing video games together about 2:30 a.m. Saturday when she heard noises outside. She took her handgun from her purse and pointed it “toward the window” before she was shot, the nephew said, according to the arrest-warrant affidavit.
The 8-year-old saw his aunt fall to the ground. Jefferson, 28, was pronounced dead at 3:05 a.m.
Interim Police Chief Ed Kraus said at a news conference Tuesday that it “makes sense that she would have a gun if she felt that she was being threatened or there was someone in the backyard.”
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Apparently Atatiana Jefferson didn't realize the noise she heard outside was a cop sent to check on her welfare.
It looks like the defense is going to be 'she had a gun'.
What is an 8 yr old doing up at 230 am?
A change from yesterday’s info.
No one explained why the front door was open to her house. I dont blame the neighbor who called the police if I saw my neighbors front door open for hours Id probably call the police too, wondering if the house got robbed
There day weekend........
It was a Friday night. What difference does it make? What’s it to you?
The cop never announced his presence as a LEO, can't blame the gal.
Unless the shooter articulated that he saw a gun being pointed at him prior to shooting the woman, he has no defense or excuse. Like Guyger, he drew and with intent to shoot the person. Now and if he saw a woman pointing a gun at him, he may be justified in shooting, but she may have been fully justified in going to guns in a defensive posture suspecting foul play at hand. His presence should have been made known rather than skulking around outside of normal approach or curtilage. Seems he was trespassing....
A change from yesterday’s info.
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The first stories on Sunday implied that she had a gun, but nobody but me seemed to notice.
Regardless ... for a welfare check, the officer should have made his presence known at the open front door instead of snooping around the house.
No air conditioning and it was a nice, cool night? Just a thought.
I don't know. Was it hot that night? Did she open the door to get a cross breeze going?
I do that all the time. Not at 2:30 am but I'm not her and I don't know what her motivation was for leaving the door open.
Doesn’t matter if she had a gun- it was HER home.She no doubt feared a prowler.
And she was correct to so fear.
some houses in the south only have a/c in the bedroom as a window unit. On a cool night you might leave the front and back door open. She could have left it open accidentally.
If somebody was prowling around my backyard unannounced at 2:30 in the morning I would have grabbed my gun too, guess I would have been dead too.
And that right there is the problem. The "no-knock raid" syndrome is corrupting the way cops think. Knock on the damned door, announce yourself! It wasn't a drug raid you idiots!
All she knew at that moment is she was defending herself, her nephew, and her home.
She did nothing wrong by reaching for her gun.
Poor judgement and poor training. The decision to treat a non-emergency 'welfare check' as a SWAT operation, set in motion the chain of events that resulted in Ms. Jefferson's homicide.
The defense will obviously use the victim legally arming herself as justification for the officer's decision to shoot.
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