Former Okaloosa County deputy Eddie Duran, 38, was charged with manslaughter with a firearm in the May 3 shooting death of 23-year-old Roger Fortson.
A judge denied bond on Tuesday for a fired deputy in the shooting of a Black U.S. Air Force senior airman who answered his apartment door while holding a gun pointed at the floor. The rare charge against a Florida law enforcement officer is a first-degree felony punishable by up to 30 years in prison. The judge ordered him held until a Thursday pretrial detention hearing, despite objections from his lawyer, who said he should be released now.
Duran had been sent to Fortson’s Fort Walton Beach apartment in response to a domestic disturbance report that turned out to be false. After repeated knocking, Fortson opened the door while holding his handgun at his side, pointed down. Authorities say that Duran shot him multiple times and only then did he tell Fortson to drop the gun. According to the internal affairs report, Duran told investigators that when Fortson opened the door, he saw aggression in the airman’s eyes.
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