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Lawyer for family of slain US Air Force airman says video and calls show deputy went to wrong home

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

A lawyer for the family of Roger Fortson said Friday that the bodycam footage of the Florida sheriff’s deputy who killed the Air Force airman and police radio traffic from right after the shooting reinforce their assertion that the deputy went to the wrong apartment while responding to a domestic disturbance call that day.

In police radio traffic that lawyer Ben Crump played at a news conference surrounded by Fortson's family, a dispatcher says

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