The killing of an airman by a Florida deputy is among cases in which black people were shot in their homes

The Fatal shot at a US Air Force pilot in his remote home in the Florida Panhandle by a sheriff’s deputy is reminiscent of other cases in which black people were killed by law enforcement in their own homes as they went about their daily lives.

Senior Airman Roger FortsonThe 23-year-old was killed May 3 in his Fort Walton Beach apartment. Body camera video viewed by reporters On Thursday, an Okaloosa County deputy arrived at the residence and spoke to a woman who described hearing someone arguing. The deputy then took the elevator up and walked down an outside hallway.

On the body camera video, the deputy can be heard yelling that he is from the sheriff’s department and knocking, all while appearing to move out of sight of the door. The video then shows Fortson opening the door while holding a gun that is pointed at the ground.

The deputy quickly fires several shots and yells at Fortson to drop the gun after he is already wounded on the ground.

Lawyer Ben Crumpwho represents Fortson’s family, said Fortson was talking to his girlfriend over FaceTime and grabbed his gun because he heard someone outside his apartment.

Crump said in a statement Thursday that “we continue to firmly believe” that law enforcement went to the wrong apartment. The sheriff denies this claim.

Here are some other cases:

BOTHAM JEAN

Botham Jean, a 26-year-old black man, was Fatally shot in 2018 from a white man Police officer who made a mistake his apartment in Dallas for himself.

Amber Guyger was still in uniform after a long shift when she went to Jean’s apartment – which was on the fourth floor, directly above hers on the third – and found the door unlocked.

Jean, an accountant from the Caribbean island nation of St. Lucia, had just eaten a bowl of ice cream when Guyger entered his home and shot him. He was unarmed.

It was Guyger, the former officer found guilty in 2019 and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

ATATIANA JEFFERSON

Atatiana Jeffersona 28-year-old black woman fatally shot through a window in her home in 2019 by Aaron Dean, a white officer, as he responded to a 911 call about the door to her home in Fort Worth, Texas, being open.

Body camera footage showed that Dean and a second officer did not identify themselves as police officers inside the home. Both testified at Dean’s trial that they thought the house might have been broken into and quietly moved into the fenced-in backyard to look for signs of forced entry.

Jefferson and her then eight-year-old nephew Zion Carr sat up late playing video games. They had left the doors open to let out smoke after previously burning hamburgers.

Carr testified that Jefferson took out her gun because she believed there was an intruder in the backyard. Dean fired a single shot through the window, a split second after yelling at Jefferson, who was inside, to show her hands.

Dean was found guilty of manslaughter in 2022 and the former officer was sentenced to almost 12 years in prison.

AIYANA STANLEY JONES

Aiyana Stanley-Jones, a 7-year-old black girl, was fatally shot in her family’s Detroit home in 2010 by police officers who entered the wrong apartment of a duplex while searching for a man suspected of a murder days earlier had been . The suspect was eventually arrested in the second floor apartment of the duplex.

Aiyana was shot in the head as she slept on a couch.

Joseph Weekley, a member of an elite police unit, was the first officer to enter the door of her home. Weekley, who is white, said he accidentally fired his gun during an argument with Aiyana’s grandmother.

Weekley was charged with involuntary manslaughter, but his first trial ended with no verdict in 2013 and his second trial ended with a hung jury in 2015. During the second trial A judge dismissed that charge.

BREONNA TAYLOR

It was Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old black woman killed by police officers who broke down the door to her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment in 2020 while executing a subsequent drug search warrant found to be defective.

Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired a single shot that hit one of the officers as he came through the door of the apartment, and the officers returned fire, hitting Taylor multiple times in the hallway of the apartment.

Walker told police investigators that he heard a knock but didn’t hear the police announce themselves. He said he was “scared to death” so he grabbed his gun and fired one shot as the door was busted down.

Officers did not find any drugs in Taylor’s apartment.

Former Louisville officer Brett Hankison, a white man, fired 10 shots at Taylor’s window and glass door found not guilty in 2022 amid allegations by the state that he endangered their neighbors when he opened fire. Some of his shots flew into a neighboring apartment, but no one hit anyone.

Last year A jury was deadlocked because of federal civil rights allegations that Hankison used excessive force that night. Federal prosecutors have said this I intend to try him again.

Three other former officers who helped draft the warrant were charged in a separate federal case. One of them, Kelly Goodlett, did pleaded guilty to help falsify the arrest warrant. She is expected to testify in the upcoming trial against the other two.