Ex-Texas Police Officer Sentenced to More Than 11 Years in Prison for Shooting Death of Atatiana JeffersonFormer Fort Worth, Texas, police officer Aaron Dean was sentenced Tuesday to 11 years, 10 months, and 12 days in prison for the killing of Atatiana Jefferson.
A Tarrant County jury deliberated about a day and a half before reaching a unanimous decision in the sentencing phase of the 38-year-old former officer.
On Thursday, after 13 hours of deliberation, the same jury found Dean guilty of manslaughter, rejecting the higher charge of murder. He was facing up to 20 years for his conviction.
The sentence appears to have some correlation to the date of the shooting.
Jefferson, a black woman who was studying to become a doctor, was inside her mother's home when she was fatally shot in the early morning hours on Oct. 12, 2019. She had moved home to help her mother, whose health was ailing....
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