Former officer Aaron Dean testifies Atatiana Jefferson had gun "pointed directly at me" before he fatally shot her in her home
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A former Texas police officer testified in his murder trial Monday that he made mistakes but fatally shot a Black woman through a rear window of her home in 2019 while staring down the barrel of a handgun she was pointing at him.
Aaron Dean said Atatiana Jefferson had the gun "pointed directly at me" but repeatedly acknowledged his actions were "bad police work" on the fourth day of his trial in the killing the 28-year-old woman. It was Dean's first public statement in the more than three years since the white Fort Worth officer shot Jefferson while responding to a call about an open front door.
"I was looking right down the barrel of the gun and when I saw the barrel of that gun pointed at me. I fired a single shot from my duty weapon," Dean said on the witness stand.
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