Janelle Griffith is a national reporter for NBC News focusing on issues of race and policing.
The since-fired Florida sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot an Air Force senior airman in his home in May has been charged with manslaughter, authorities said Friday. Eddie Duran, formerly of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, shot Air Force Senior Airman Roger Fortson multiple times May 3 after Fortson opened the door of his Fort Walton Beach apartment. Fortson was holding a gun in his right hand that was pointed directly at the ground, body camera video shows.
On May 31, nearly a month after Fortson’s killing, Sheriff Eric Aden announced that Duran had been fired following an administrative internal affairs investigation. “The objective facts of the administrative investigation concluded that Mr. Fortson did not make any hostile, attacking movements, and therefore, the former deputy’s use of deadly force was not objectively reasonable” under sheriff’s office policy, Aden said, adding, “This tragic incident should have never occurred.
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