Lawyer for US airman’s family shot and killed by deputy to reveal new evidence – WSB-TV Channel 2

His family’s attorney says Fortson was on FaceTime with his girlfriend when he heard an aggressive knock on the door and went for his legal weapon. As he opened the door, the deputy shot him several times.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump is representing Fortson’s family. He will speak at a news conference at New Birth Missionary Baptist in DeKalb at 11 a.m.

The press conference will feature new evidence in the case and also provide an update on how Fortson’s girlfriend and dog are doing.

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Fortson’s girlfriend told me Channel 2’s Candace McCowan on Wednesday that she is still shaken, but she wants the world to know what Fortson’s final moments were before the shooting.

“We heard a knock and he asked, ‘Who is it?’ He said: “Nobody comes to my house, I don’t know who that could be,” she said.

“Then the knocking becomes aggressive and he says, ‘I’m going to grab my gun because I don’t know who that is.’ He asked who was louder,” she said. “What I thought was… There were gunshots. That’s when I heard the officer identify himself and say, ‘Put the gun away.’ And Roger says, ‘OK, OK.'”

She said she then heard what she believed were his last conscious moments.

“Roger says, ‘I can’t breathe. I can not breath.’ He fires three shots in the chest and three in the forearm,” she said. “I did not know, what I should do. There was nothing I could do.”

She said she still captures a final moment with him on her doorbell camera just days earlier when Fortson left her Atlanta home. He told her he loved her and she repeated it to him.

“We talked every day. We went from seeing each other once a month to almost every weekend,” she said.

She said she knew Forston wanted the truth to come out.

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