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Atatiana Jefferson: Another Black Person Murdered in Their Home by a White Cop | Dr. Rick Wallace
A white Texas police officer fatally shot a black woman inside her own home early Saturday morning after a neighbor who’d noticed her door was open requested a welfare check, authorities said.
Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after 2:25 a.m., when one of the officers responding to an “open structure” call at her home “drew his duty weapon and fired” at a person inside the home near a window whom he’d deemed a threat, the Fort Worth Police Department said in a Saturday statement.
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed her identity to The Daily Beast.
Jefferson was reportedly not alone in the house at the time of the incident. One of her neighbors, 62-year-old James Smith, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram he’d called the non-emergency police number to report her door being open because he knew her 8-year-old nephew was staying in the house with her. Police have not confirmed whether the child was also found in the home, however.
Body-camera footage obtained by the Star-Telegram shows two officers—both equipped with flashlights—checking the perimeter of Jefferson’s home before walking around the side of the house to open the gate into the backyard. The officer in the backyard “observed a person standing inside the residence near a window,” authorities said, and started to shout.
“Put your hands up! Show me your hands!” the officer is heard yelling with his gun drawn.
The officer, who has not been identified by the Fort Worth Police Department, then fired a single shot through the window, the statement said.
“Officers entered the residence locating the individual and a firearm and began providing emergency medical care.”
Police did not specify if Jefferson was holding the weapon when she was fatally shot. It also remains unclear if the officers knocked on the door and identified themselves before examining the perimeter of the house with flashlights.
According to Smith, the officers had parked around the corner from Jefferson’s home, meaning she wouldn’t have been able to see them.
Civil-rights attorney Lee Merritt, who said his office is representing Jefferson’s family, wrote on Facebook that she was playing video games with her nephew “when they heard what they believed to be a prowler creeping around the back window of the home.”
“When she went to see what was going on she was confronted by an officer with his gun drawn shouting commands. With just seconds to comply, she was shot through the window,” Merritt wrote.
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