FORT WALTON BEACH — The Okaloosa County Branch of the NAACP is hosting a community town hall event at the Fort Walton Beach Civic Auditorium with the family of Senior Airman Roger Fortson, who was shot and killed by a now-former deputy of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office in May. In a news release, Chapter […]
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Hundreds pack funeral for Roger Fortson, the Black airman killed in his home by a Florida deputy
STONECREST, Ga. (AP) — Hundreds of Air Force members in dress blues joined Roger Fortson’s family, friends and others at a suburban Atlanta megachurch on Friday to pay their final respects to the Black senior airman, who was shot and killed in his Florida home earlier this month by a sheriff’s deputy. People lined up […]
Girlfriend of Slain U.S. Airman Roger Fortson Releases FaceTime Video of Fatal Police Encounter
Roger Fortson’s girlfriend provided the video, obtained by PEOPLE, after authorities released body camera footage of the police shooting on Friday, May 3 U.S. Air Force via AP Senior Airman Roger Fortson A Florida law enforcement officer shot a U.S. airman multiple times inside his apartment, according to the officer’s body camera footage. Now, in […]