Deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was home alone when they saw he was armed with a gun, an attorney for the man’s family said Wednesday.
Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, who was based at the Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, was in his off-base apartment in Fort Walton Beach when the shooting happened on May 3.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said in a statement that Fortson was on a Facetime call with a woman at the time of the encounter.
Did someone edit a comment? Or the post itself? Where does Japan come into an article about an airman killed by police in Florida?
It is an anecdote about the Air Force going to bat for one of its members, in a much less desirable scenario.
Thanks. I was misinterpreting the previous comment.