FT. WORTH, TX —One of Atatiana Jefferson’s neighbors saw that the door to her home was open. It was around 2 in the morning. The lights were on. The neighbor thought that Jefferson was home with her young nephew.
The neighbor was concerned. He called police.
Two officers arrived at 2:25 .m. at Jefferson’s home on the 1200 block of East Allen Avenue and started using flashlights to check around the home. The actions of the officers are captured on body cameras, footage released by the department.
One of the officers sees a figure through a bedroom.
“Put your hands up!” he yells. “Show me your hands!”
He shoots once through the window, striking and killing Jefferson.
A lawyer hired by Jefferson’s family says that Jefferson and her nephew heard what they thought was someone trying to break into the house.
She had gone to the window and that’s when she was killed.
At no point in he video does the officer identify himself as a police officer.
“Perceiving a threat, the officer drew his duty weapon and fired one shot striking the person inside the residence,” the department said in a statement.
“Officers entered the residence locating the individual and a firearm and began providing emergency medical care.”
The department also said that a gun was recovered from Jefferson’s hme but did not say where the gun was or whether they believe that she’d been holding it when she was killed.
A gun can’t be seen in the officer’s body camera video.
The officer who killed Jefferson has been placed on paid leave while the investigation takes place.
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