

On December 20, 2019, Dean was indicted for murder. On October 14, 2019, Officer Aaron Dean, the shooter, resigned from the Fort Worth Police Department and was arrested on a murder charge. Police found a handgun near Jefferson's body, which according to her eight-year-old nephew, she was pointing toward the window before being shot. Police body camera footage showed officers walking outside the home with flashlights for a few minutes then one officer yells, "Put your hands up! Show me your hands!", while discharging his weapon through a window. Police arrived at her home after a neighbor called a non-emergency number, stating that Jefferson's front door was open. Manslaughter ( lesser included offense)ġ1 years, 10 months, and 12 days in prisonĪtatiana Koquice Jefferson, a 28-year-old woman, was shot inside her home by a police officer in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, in the early morning of October 12, 2019.Guilty on the lesser included offense of manslaughter Homicide by shooting, police brutality, manslaughter
