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Oct 23, 2026
Chip DeBlockHOST
The Tampa Free Press at TampaFB.com, I just want to get this one over.
Chip DeBlockHOST
The former Florida deputy acquitted in the fatal shooting of the airman Roger Fortson.
Chip DeBlockHOST
The family's going to do a civil suit.
Chip DeBlockHOST
But I wanted to get that.
Chip DeBlockHOST
An Okaloosa County jury, they found the former sheriff's deputy, Eddie Duran, not guilty of manslaughter.
Chip DeBlockHOST
This happened back in May of 2024, so just over two years ago.
Chip DeBlockHOST
A fatal shooting of this 23-year-old U.S. Air Force senior airman named Roger Fortson.
Chip DeBlockHOST
Attorney Ben Crump's involved, so you know he's seen dollar signs.
Alexis KnightHOST
Hello and welcome to your True Crime Podcast.
Alexis KnightHOST
On May 3, 2024, Okaloosa County Sheriff's Deputy Eddie Duran shot and killed 23-year-old Air Force Senior Airman Roger Fortson at Fortson's apartment in Fort Walton Beach while responding to a reported disturbance.
Alexis KnightHOST
In this police interview, Duren describes his response to the call and the moments surrounding the
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shooting.
Chip DeBlockHOST
And they're justified in a deadly shooting of an elderly guy who pointed a gun at officers.
Chip DeBlockHOST
We got a former Florida deputy acquitted in a fatal shooting of an airman, Roger Fortson.
Chip DeBlockHOST
And I know we haven't really, I mentioned the title, which is probably good enough, but we haven't really deep dived into that story.
Chip DeBlockHOST
We got a guy in a mental crisis, fatally shot when he lunges at officers with a large knife.
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Chip DeBlockHOST
So Larry Krasner is the district attorney in Philadelphia.
Chip DeBlockHOST
He spent years telling the city that his progressive experiment, according to our story here, would deliver justice.
Chip DeBlockHOST
while locking up fewer people and now there's a federal grand jury at looking whether he's calling himself the city's highest law enforcement official you know for nothing or not listen to what happened so fox news reports that the justice department said a grand jury subpoenas a plural to krasner's office in recent days two sources briefed on the matter say the subpoenas concern potential obstruction of justice tied to handling of cases before federal judges The move follows a referral from the U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond, who pointed federal prosecutors towards Krasner and his deputy, that is Matthew Strigler, for possible criminal investigation over false statements, perjury, obstruction, and conspiracy.
Chip DeBlockHOST
So it was a federal judge that set this thing off.
Dominique DiPrimaHOST
And it's one of the things that, you know, I'm very grateful that you and Black Lives Matter grassroots do.
Dominique DiPrimaHOST
Those four, I think you're talking about Roger Fortson, the senior airman who was murdered minutes after he opened his door.
Dominique DiPrimaHOST
by a cop, that one acquitted.
Dominique DiPrimaHOST
And Jalen Lewis, if I'm not mistaken, that cop also, well, that was a hung jury, and the prosecutors are not going to retry.
Chip DeBlockHOST
They fatally shoot a guy when he, uh, pulls out a black object that ends up being a radio.
Chip DeBlockHOST
And if we had time to get to the other ones, former Florida deputy acquitted in the fatal shooting of an airman, Roger Fortson.
Chip DeBlockHOST
Remember that story? And he ends up getting acquitted, and then prosecutors clear a Boca Raton officer in a 2024 fatal shooting.
Chip DeBlockHOST
Um, so there you go.
Dominique DiPrimaHOST
But with others, we do know.
Dominique DiPrimaHOST
We know what happened to Roger Fortson.
Dominique DiPrimaHOST
We know that a cop shot him within seconds of coming to his house.
Dominique DiPrimaHOST
Um, and he opened his door, and that, uh, trial just wrapped up.
Andrea ColemanHOST
Thank you, Bree.
Andrea ColemanHOST
The mother of Senior Airman Roger Fortson says race played a role in the acquittal of the man who shot her son.
Andrea ColemanHOST
Last week, an all-white jury found former Okaloosa, Florida Sheriff's deputy Eddie Duran not guilty in the fatal shooting of Fortson in 2024.
Andrea ColemanHOST
The Grio cites the Atlanta Black Star as saying Mecca Fortson, the airman's mother, as saying that race influenced the jury's decision and that a Black juror should have been on the panel.
Andrea ColemanHOST
During a press conference last year, Fortson said she wanted accountability in her son's death.
Mecca FortsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I want accountability because he was 23.
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I want accountability because he had life ahead of him.
Andrea ColemanHOST
Mm.
Chip DeBlockHOST
We might feel differently on that topic, just FYI.
Chip DeBlockHOST
A former Florida deputy acquitted in a fatal shooting of an airman, Roger Fortson.
Chip DeBlockHOST
We've been holding this article.
Chip DeBlockHOST
We haven't covered it yet.
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Chip DeBlockHOST
We got a knife-wielding man fatally shot by cops on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Chip DeBlockHOST
I suspect you wanna talk about that.
Chip DeBlockHOST
Former Florida deputy acquitted in, in a shooting of the airman, and, uh, we got a Boca Raton thing, and then we got a LAPD shooting, uh, with an $11 million, you know, aw- r- a- award.
Chip DeBlockHOST
Any, any, any ...
Chip DeBlockHOST
This guy ends up being acquitted.
Chip DeBlockHOST
He's the one that shot the airman, Roger Fortson, um, in that little hotel/motel in, uh, in Florida, and the family's gonna sue civilly.
Chip DeBlockHOST
We've got a Pasco County deputy, not far from where I'm at.
Chip DeBlockHOST
Um, he shoots and kills a guy armed with a knife.
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Byron PittsHOST
now to on the docket where we take a look at other high-profile cases a florida jury found former deputy eddie duran not guilty shooting death of u.s senior airman roger fortson prosecutors say in 2024 duran responded to a domestic dispute call at fortin's home body camera video appears to show fortson opening the door while holding a gun pointed at the ground and duran shooting him within seconds duran said he followed training protocols A judge denied Lindsay Clancy's attempt to force a not guilty finding in her case.
Byron PittsHOST
Her attorney argued earlier this week there's nothing proving Clancy killed her three children.
Byron PittsHOST
Her trial ended last month with a hung jury.
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