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The US police officer who shot dead a black woman in her bedroom on Saturday has been held and charged with murder.
Police in Forth Worth, Texas, wrote on Twitter that Aaron Dean was being held in the Tarrant County jail. On Monday police chief Ed Kraus told reporters Mr Dean had resigned from the force.
Atatiana Jefferson was killed after police responded to a non-emergency call from a neighbour.
Body cam footage shows the officer shooting within seconds of seeing her.
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The body cam footage of the incident shows police searching the perimeter of Jefferson’s property, before noticing a figure at the window. After demanding that the person put their hands up, an officer then fired through the glass.
Ms Jefferson had been playing video games with her eight-year-old nephew before she went to investigate the noise outside the window and was shot, said a lawyer representing her family.
The officers involved did not park their marked cars in front of her house and did not identify themselves as police, officials said.
The man who called police, James Smith, 62, told local media he was trying to be a good neighbour.
“If I had never dialled the police department, she’d still be alive.” Mr Smith told local media. “It makes you not want to call the police department.”
Ms Jefferson’s killing comes two weeks after Dallas police officer Amber Guyger, 31, was found guilty of murdering 26-year-old Botham Jean.