<p class="title">A white policeman who shot dead a black Texas woman as she played video games at home with her young nephew has been charged with murder, police said Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Aaron Dean gunned down 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson from outside her Fort Worth property in the early hours of Saturday as she approached a window to investigate noises outside.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The incident, less than two weeks after a white policewoman was jailed for killing a black man in his apartment in nearby Dallas, has sparked a wave of anger in the US, where so-called blue-on-black violence fueled the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We are all heartbroken today. Atatiana was a beautiful, smart, amazing young woman by all accounts, who was unjustly taken from her family," Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price told a news conference.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She said an independent panel of experts would review the incident, adding: "As a mother, a grandmother, a sister, an aunt, I can't imagine anything worse and I'm so sorry."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Police said he had been charged with murder and was being held in custody.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Fort Worth interim police chief Ed Kraus made Dean's name public, and promised "a thorough and transparent and speedy investigation."</p>.<p class="bodytext">"My intent was to meet with him today to terminate his employment with the Fort Worth Police Department. However, the officer tendered his resignation this morning before we met," Kraus said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Jefferson's brother Darius Carr demanded tough, immediate action earlier Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"This man murdered someone," Carr told reporters. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The shooting came after a neighbor called police to report that Jefferson's front and side doors were lying ajar.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Police body-cam footage showed two officers with flashlights walking quietly around the property before spotting someone standing inside near a window.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Family attorney Lee Merritt said the victim had heard sounds in the backyard and had walked toward the window to investigate when she was shot.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Her eight-year-old nephew had been playing a video game with Jefferson, a pharmaceutical worker, when she was gunned down.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Perceiving a threat, the officer drew his duty weapon and fired one shot striking the person," the Fort Worth force said, releasing a blurry image of a gun found in the home that the mayor later described as "irrelevant."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dean, who had been with the department since 2017, did not identify himself as a police officer before opening fire, police said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the body-cam footage, he is heard saying in rapid speech that is difficult to understand: "Put your hands up, show me your hands."</p>.<p class="bodytext">The words are followed immediately by the sound of gunfire.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"There was no reason for her to be murdered. None," said a GoFundMe page organized to help the family with funeral expenses. "We must have justice."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Several hundred mourners took part in a vigil Sunday in Fort Worth to honor Jefferson, local media reported. Some shed tears, while others cried out in anger.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Local pastor Michael Bell was quoted as urging people in Fort Worth to "take it to the streets."</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We're not hugging them and giving them a Bible," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The local Star-Telegram newspaper said Fort Worth police had shot at least seven people -- six of them fatally -- since June 1, although the department has not released figures for that period.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Merritt described the city police as "basically one of the deadliest police departments in the United States."</p>
<p class="title">A white policeman who shot dead a black Texas woman as she played video games at home with her young nephew has been charged with murder, police said Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Aaron Dean gunned down 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson from outside her Fort Worth property in the early hours of Saturday as she approached a window to investigate noises outside.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The incident, less than two weeks after a white policewoman was jailed for killing a black man in his apartment in nearby Dallas, has sparked a wave of anger in the US, where so-called blue-on-black violence fueled the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We are all heartbroken today. Atatiana was a beautiful, smart, amazing young woman by all accounts, who was unjustly taken from her family," Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price told a news conference.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She said an independent panel of experts would review the incident, adding: "As a mother, a grandmother, a sister, an aunt, I can't imagine anything worse and I'm so sorry."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Police said he had been charged with murder and was being held in custody.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Fort Worth interim police chief Ed Kraus made Dean's name public, and promised "a thorough and transparent and speedy investigation."</p>.<p class="bodytext">"My intent was to meet with him today to terminate his employment with the Fort Worth Police Department. However, the officer tendered his resignation this morning before we met," Kraus said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Jefferson's brother Darius Carr demanded tough, immediate action earlier Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"This man murdered someone," Carr told reporters. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The shooting came after a neighbor called police to report that Jefferson's front and side doors were lying ajar.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Police body-cam footage showed two officers with flashlights walking quietly around the property before spotting someone standing inside near a window.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Family attorney Lee Merritt said the victim had heard sounds in the backyard and had walked toward the window to investigate when she was shot.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Her eight-year-old nephew had been playing a video game with Jefferson, a pharmaceutical worker, when she was gunned down.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Perceiving a threat, the officer drew his duty weapon and fired one shot striking the person," the Fort Worth force said, releasing a blurry image of a gun found in the home that the mayor later described as "irrelevant."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dean, who had been with the department since 2017, did not identify himself as a police officer before opening fire, police said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the body-cam footage, he is heard saying in rapid speech that is difficult to understand: "Put your hands up, show me your hands."</p>.<p class="bodytext">The words are followed immediately by the sound of gunfire.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"There was no reason for her to be murdered. None," said a GoFundMe page organized to help the family with funeral expenses. "We must have justice."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Several hundred mourners took part in a vigil Sunday in Fort Worth to honor Jefferson, local media reported. Some shed tears, while others cried out in anger.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Local pastor Michael Bell was quoted as urging people in Fort Worth to "take it to the streets."</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We're not hugging them and giving them a Bible," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The local Star-Telegram newspaper said Fort Worth police had shot at least seven people -- six of them fatally -- since June 1, although the department has not released figures for that period.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Merritt described the city police as "basically one of the deadliest police departments in the United States."</p>