FORT WORTH, Texas — Prosecutors and defense lawyers closed their cases Tuesday in the murder trial of former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean, who fatally shot a Black woman in her mother’s home more than three years ago.
Lawyers will give closing statements and the jury will begin deliberations Wednesday morning, State District Judge George Gallagher said.
Dean, 38, killed Atatiana Jefferson in the early morning hours of Oct. 12, 2019, while responding to a call. A concerned neighbor called a nonemergency police line about 2:30 a.m. because doors at the home were open and lights were on inside.
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