Aaron Dean Trial Day 4: Live updates

4:40 p.m. – Court breaks for the day.

4:14 p.m. – Court resumes with Fredericks on the stand.

4:00 p.m. – Court breaks.

3:49 p.m. – Fredericks analyzes the audio from Dean's body camera. 

3:29 p.m. – Fredericks looks at body camera footage from Dean on the night of Oct. 12, 2019. 

He says there is a blur from the lights, meaning the camera was moving quickly. He also sees the camera pointing up, which means Dean's shoulder moved up.

He pointed out where the camera showed a "human figure."

3:16 p.m. – Fredericks continues to explain how body cameras work and collect data. He begins to analyze body camera footage from the night of Oct. 12, 2019.

2:39 p.m. – While explaining to the court how body cameras work, Fredericks says cameras cannot "reproduce the perspective of the officer."

2:18 p.m. – Court returns from break and Grant Fredericks, forensic video analyst, is called to the stand.

1:55 p.m. - Dean admits, "It's not a perfect execution of general orders," of his actions on Oct. 12, 2019. 

The judge then calls for a break so the court can prepare for the next witness. 

1:46 p.m. - Prosecutor Dale Smith passes the witness.

1:36 p.m. - Dean's attorneys object to "badgering of the witness," by Prosecutor Dale Smith but the judge sustains. 

1:30 p.m. - Prosecutor Dale Smith continues to hammer away at Dean's decisions the night Jefferson was killed. 

Prosecutor Dale Smith: "If there could have been more bad guys there, was it a good idea to leave the back of the house without surveillance... and exposed you and Officer Darch's six as you ran to the front of the home?"

Dean: "There are risks in police work and I had to make a choice."

Prosecutor Dale Smith: "It wasn't a good idea, was it?"
Dean: "It was the only way to do that."

1:15 p.m. - Court resumes session 

1:00 p.m. - The court is in recess but Ken Molestina talks to Jason Allen about the testimony from former Fort Worth police officer, Aaron Dean and what we might be able to expect in the afternoon. 

Noon — The courtroom has taken its lunch break. Proceedings are expected to resume at 1 p.m. 

11:55 a.m. - "I think I did a fine job."

Dean stands his ground when repeatedly asking by Dale Smith how he thinks he handled the situation. 

11:25 a.m. - Prosecutor Dale Smith continues to grill Dean on the stand.

Prosecutor Dale Smith: 'Y'all just went right out in the open, in the most obvious place to cross the street where anyone at that intersection can see... is that correct?"
Dean: "Yes."

Prosecutor Dale Smith: "Wouldn't you agree that isn't a good way to sneak up on anybody?"
Dean: "Yes."

Prosecutor Dale Smith: "So more bad police work?"
Dean: "Yes."

11:20 a.m. - Under cross examination, Dean admits he never started CPR on Jefferson. 

Prosecutor Dale Smith: "How fast did you start CPR?"
Dean: "I don't recall."

Prosecutor Dale Smith:: "Did you see the video? How fast did you start CPR?"
Dean: "It was a while."

Prosecutor Dale Smith: "Did you start CPR?"
Dean: "No."

Prosecutor Dale Smith: "You saw she was bleeding -- correct? You heard her last breaths -- correct?"
Dean: "I heard what I now know were her last breaths."

Prosecutor Dale Smith: "Because you didn't know then it was her last breaths, did you?"
Dean: "I thought it was the dog."

11:15 a.m. - Dean's police tactics scrutinized under cross examination. 

11 a.m. - Cross examination begins. 

10:25 a.m. - Dean describes first seeing Atatiana after shooting her. 

"I get to that back bedroom. And to my right I see a kid (we now know as Zion). And I'm thinking, who brings a kid to a burglary? What is going on? I see a dog... and I remember going over to the person laying on the floor, and saw the weapon between her feet. I put my gloves on and picked it up." 

Dean then said, "I hear Officer Darch talking to Zion... we now know he said, 'I don't want to go to jail.' And she tells him, 'Don't worry you're not going to jail.'" 

But a minute later, Dean takes back this statement, apologizing to the court, saying he didn't actually hear that exchange, but is "processing."

10:21 a.m. - "The gun was pointed directly at me."

Dean explains at length why he shot Atatiana Jefferson. 

"We are taught to meet deadly force with force. We are taught not to wait and defend ourselves."

After hearing Officer Carol Darch call out "Shots fired! Shots fired!" Dean said he called for medical attention for Jefferson immediately. He said she was laying face down on the floor and he couldn't "really see anything else in the room."

He and Officer Darch then ran to the front of the house. They went inside.

10:20 a.m. - A tearful Aaron Dean described shooting Atatiana Jefferson. 

"Show me your hands! Show me your hands!"

"And as I started to get that second phrase out, I saw the silhouette... and I was looking right down the barrel of a gun. And when I saw the barrel of that gun pointed at me, I fired a single shot from my duty weapon. And immediately had the flash from the muzzle reflecting off the window, and as my weapon recoiled the light was bouncing on my vision so I couldn't see. When my vision cleared, then I observed the person... that we now know as Ms. Jefferson. I heard her scream and fall like this. And I knew that I had shot that person."

10:08 a.m. - Dean explained further the moments leading up to the fatal shooting. 

Attorney: "When you looked into the window, did anything catch your eye?"
Dean: "Yes, as I looked through that window... low in that window I observed a person. Couldn't tell -- Black, White, male, female -- I saw their torso bent over horizontal. The upper arms were moving, like they were reaching, grasping for something."

Attorney: "When you see that adult torso at the window, what do you do?"
Dean: "I thought we had a burglar, so I straightened up and drew my weapon... and then pointed it toward the figure. I couldn't see their hands. And we are taught that the hand... and what's in them are what kill. So I drew my weapon to tell that person to show me their hands."

10 a.m. - Dean continued to describe what he saw outside Jefferson's home the night of the fatal shooting. 

"The edge of the screen frame looked like it was pulled back. I also saw a screw driver at the base of the door and some lawn equipment."

He also explained why he was whispering to the other officer on-scene.

"We didn't want a potential burglar to hear us and attack us."

9:55 a.m. - Dean explains what he saw the night of Oct. 11, 2019 when he responded to Atatiana Jefferson's house moments before he shot and killed her through a window claiming she pointed a gun at him. 

"The street was dark, but I could see the front door was open and I could see light spilling out of it. The lights were on inside. I remember it being quiet."

An attorney asked, "When you looked into the house from the front door, what observations did you make?"

"The glass door was shut but the inner door was open. Objects were strewn about all over the floor. It looked ransacked. It was a mess. Kitchen drawers were open... it looked like someone had gone through looking for items to steal." 

He was working the 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. shift. 

9:38 a.m. - When asked by defense attorneys, "During your time with a field training officer did you have an opportunity to respond to different priority level calls within the city of Fort Worth?"

Dean replied, "Yes."

"Is it safe to assume as part of your training at the academy you learned to use the mobile data computers in the squad car?"

Dean replied, "Yes."

"Is there an acronym for that?"

Dean replied, "Yes. MDC."

"Were you given training on the radio system for the city of Fort Worth Police Department?"

Dean replied, "Yes."

9:40 a.m. - Dean said on the night of the Jefferson shooting, he had two radios with him. 

"One was in my vehicle and the other was on my duty belt."

Attorneys asked Dean to describe his understanding of priority calls.

"Priority one is a very high priority call... usually someone is in danger.  Something's actively going down. Priority two, don't dilly dally but you don't have to run code. A priority three, we'll take care of that when we can."

He was also asked to explain what "code" means.

"It means lights and sirens."

9:28 a.m. - Aaron Dean didn't waste time addressing the jury when he took the stand on Dec. 12. 

"This jury needs to hear from me and hear the truth."

Following that statement, the 38-year-old former Fort Worth police officer briefly described his life growing up in Arlington. He also talked about his professional life prior to joining law enforcement. He formerly worked as an engineer at a commercial refrigerator plant in the area. 

At the age of 32, he started the application process to become an officer with the Fort Worth Police Department. In August of 2017, he was accepted to the police academy. 

9:05 a.m. - Day four of the Aaron Dean trial begins with defense expert witness Grant Fredericks talking about body camera video and evidence. 

Defense attorneys began presenting their case at 9 a.m. Monday in Tarrant County's 396th District Court.