Roger Fortson was on a video call with his girlfriend when he was killed
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Roger Fortson was shot in his home by a Florida sheriff's deputy. Body camera footage appears to show Fortson had a gun in his hand at the time of the shooting., who was on a video call with him when he was killed by an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy, is speaking out about the May 3 incident."We started talking about our plans for the weekend because it was the weekend of Cinco De Mayo," Fortson's girlfriend said.
" tells him, 'Stop moving, stop moving,' but clearly, I don't think he can move," she said. "He starts putting pressure on the gunshot wound, and he calls out the three gunshots to the chest and three to the forearm."Fortson's girlfriend said she could hear other people she believed were deputies, looking through Fortson’s things in the apartment. At one point, the woman said it appeared that one of the deputies discovered that Fortson was in the military.
The couple had been dating since October after what she said was love at first sight when they were both attending a birthday party in Atlanta. The pair "bonded instantly," she said, describing their relationship as "very honest, peaceful." "He was in his home playing video games and talking to me like any other day, literally any other day. That's our routine," she said. "He gets off work. He's either down or playing the game and we FaceTime until I go to work. It's the same every day. Every day. He never changed up."
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