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Authorities in Florida released shocking police bodycam footage Thursday that showed an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputy shooting and killing an armed special operations US airman in his own apartment — before the cop even told him to drop his gun.
The unidentified deputy was responding to the Chez Elan Apartments in Fort Walton Beach May 3 on a domestic violence call — a woman said she heard arguing from a frequently-troubled couple in a nearby apartment.
Roger Fortson’s family said that the deputy barged into the wrong apartment — and that the 23-year-old had armed himself with his own legal handgun in response to suspicious knocks at his door.