Newly released police records and phone calls from a Florida sheriff’s department raise more questions over how the deputy who shot and killed Senior Airman Roger Fortson in his home this month was led to the apartment by bystanders.
The original audio of the 911 nonemergency call shows that a person who works at the building was relaying secondhand information on the apartment number where the alleged disturbance was happening. Additionally, a subsequent 911 call from a neighbor details reaction to the shooting.
Fortson, 23, a senior special operations airman stationed at Hurlburt Field, was shot multiple times within seconds of answering the door to his Fort Walton Beach apartment on May 3. The deputy responding to the call of a disturbance saw Fortson had his legally owned firearm held to his side and immediately opened fire, giving the airman no time to respond.
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The sheriff’s office released the heavily redacted information to Military.com on Tuesday. The records include the initial 911 call, another 911 call around the time of the shooting, and the incident report completed at the time of the shooting, as well as dispatch notes.
Dispatch call history sheets provided by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office to Military.com identify two apartment numbers that were not Fortson’s, “Unit 1101” and “Unit 1404.” The other two units are…
