The highly decorated airman, 23, is killed by police officers who shot him SIX TIMES while he was on FaceTime with a friend

• U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, died in the hospital Friday evening
• One woman said she saw him killed by police officers while they were using FaceTime
• She told how police officers knocked on the wrong door before breaking in and shooting him

An airman was killed in his home after police allegedly entered the wrong apartment and shot him while his horrified friend watched on FaceTime.

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, has been identified as the young man shot and killed in a shootout last Friday afternoon.

It took place at Fortson’s off-base residence – an apartment complex at 319 Racetrack Road in Okaloosa County, Florida.

An Okaloosa County officer responded to a report of a disturbance and “acted in self-defense after encountering a 23-year-old male armed with a weapon,” troopers say.

A witness who was on FaceTime with Fortson during the shooting claimed Fortson heard a knock on the door and asked who was there.

When he got no answer but heard another “very aggressive knock,” Fortson peered through the peephole – but saw no one and became concerned.

Out of concern, Fortson retrieved a gun – which the witness said he owned legally.

When he returned to his living room with the gun, authorities allegedly forced their way through his door and shot him six times.

The traumatized witness, who remained on the FaceTime call throughout the horrific shooting, recalled Fortson saying, “I can’t breathe” after the shots were fired. Fortson later died in hospital.

The deputy involved in the incident has since been placed on administrative leave while the investigation into the shooting continues.

The 23-year-old was stationed at the Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, Florida. He began active duty on November 19, 2019

He was assigned to the 4th Special Operations Squadron as a Special Operations Airman, where one of his duties as a member of the squadron’s AC-130J Ghostrider crew was to load the attack helicopter’s 30mm and 105mm cannons during missions.

The Air Force’s 1st Special Operations Wing said its priorities are “providing casualty services to the family, supporting the squadron during this tragic time and ensuring resources are available to all affected.”

Fortson’s mother, Meka Fortson, said it was always her son’s dream to serve his country and that he wanted to be a pilot.

“It’s a disbelief. “Every day I try to go to sleep early so I can wake up like it’s a dream,” she told Military.com.

“He just came back from deployment after fighting for us. With everything that’s going on in our country, he fights for us, and he came back to be murdered, and murdered so brutally.’

“He was my gift, and they took my gift away,” Roger’s mother said. “And they didn’t give it to me.” “God gave me this gift… and they took away my gift.”

A similar incident occurred back in November at the same sheriff’s office, where the officer shot and killed an unarmed and handcuffed man after mistaking the sound of a falling acorn for a gunshot, according to The Washington Post.

The Washington Post’s database of fatal police shootings from 2015 through April of this year found that in 2023, police killed the highest number of people on record.

Black Americans are more than twice as likely to be killed by police as white Americans.