A Florida jury on Friday acquitted a former sheriff’s deputy of manslaughter in the 2024 killing of a U.S. Air Force senior airman who answered his apartment door holding a handgun pointed to the ground.
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Ex-Sheriff’s Deputy Acquitted in Fatal Shooting of Airman Roger Fortson
The airman, Roger Fortson, had answered a knock at his home in Fort Walton Beach while holding a gun, and was shot within seconds. A Florida jury cleared the former deputy, Eddie Duran.
