Civil rights attorney Ben Crump holds a news conference with the family of Roger Fortson, a 23-year-old Air Force airman who a Florida sheriff's office deputy fatally shot. -- Deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was home alone when they saw he was armed with a gun, an attorney for the man’s family said Wednesday. Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, who was based at the Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, was in his off-base apartment in Fort Walton Beach when the shooting happened on May 3. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said in a statement that Fortson was on a Facetime call with a woman at the time of the encounter. MORE: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-world/florida-deputies-who-fatally-shot-us-airman-wrong-apartment/507-3fec4e9f-230c-4929-93cc-836c47787795