Senior Airman Roger Fortson was home alone in his off-base apartment causing no trouble and FaceTiming with a woman when a Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputy, responding to the wrong address for a disturbance, broke through his door and fatally shot him Friday, an attorney for the airman’s family said Wednesday.
Fortson, 23, was shot six times, said Crump, who attributed his account of the shooting to the woman, a witness who the airman had been FaceTiming with during the incident.
According to that woman, Crump said, Fortson heard a knock on his door, and when he asked who it was didn’t get a response.
A few minutes later, there was a “very aggressive knock,” but Fortson didn’t see anyone when he looked out the peephole.
The recording refers to a Black male who had been shot “multiple” times in the chest.
“The circumstances surrounding Roger’s death raise serious questions that demand immediate answers from authorities, especially considering the alarming witness statement that the police entered the wrong apartment.
According to an internal investigation, Deputy Jesse Hernandez believed the shot came from inside his vehicle. »
