Funeral service for US airman from Atlanta shot and killed by Florida deputy

A funeral is planned to take place on Friday after an Atlanta airman was shot to death a Florida deputy earlier in May. The funeral is expected to take place at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta starting at 11 a.m.

This comes just a day after Civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben Crump and the family revealed new details relating to the incident that left US Airman Roger Fortson dead.

Some of those details include Crump highlighting discrepancies in the sheriff's office narrative about the disturbance at Fortson's apartment, along with Body-camera audio showing the woman who called the deputy unsure where the disturbance was coming from. More: https://www.11alive.com/article/news/...

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