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3 days ago · Hundreds of Air Force members in dress blues have joined Roger Fortson’s family, friends and others at a suburban Atlanta megachurch to pay their final respects to the Black senior airman, who was shot and killed in his Florida home earlier this month by a sheriff’s deputy.
4 days ago · U.S. Air Force personnel stand near the coffin of slain airman Roger Fortson during his funeral near Atlanta on May 17, 2024. Bryan Anderson—AP. (STONECREST, Ga.) — Hundreds of Air Force ...
5 days ago · Charles Johnson, an airman first class who is stationed at Hurlburt Field and met Fortson through Rozier in 2021, said Fortson was fun-loving, goofy, and a great man and friend. The three of them ...
4 days ago · Published May 17, 2024 at 9:50am ET. STONECREST, Ga. — A funeral will be held Friday for a Black U.S. Air Force senior airman who was shot and killed in his Florida home by a sheriff's deputy,...
3 days ago · Fortson, a 23-year-old active-duty senior airman, was fatally shot by a Florida sheriff’s deputy on May 3. The Atlanta native, who enlisted in the military after graduating from high school with...
3 days ago · Funeral services were held today for U.S. senior airman Roger Fortson. He was fatally shot by a Florida sheriff's deputy two weeks ago. The family mourned the 23-year-old in Stone Crest, Ga. They ...
5 days ago · Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, was shot and killed by an Okaloosa County sheriff’s deputy on May 3. A lawyer for his family says that bodycam footage and police radio traffic reinforce their...
