#sayhername Atatiana Jefferson and her eight-year-old nephew were playing video games in her Fort Worth home in the early morning of October 11th. A twenty-eight-year-old pre-med graduate, Jefferson went to the window of her bedroom to investigate noises coming from outside the house. Her decision — made in what should have been the security of her own home—would be her last. Outside her window was a man, wearing blue, empowered to take her life on the grounds that he felt threatened by a shadow in the window. Minutes earlier, her neighbor James Smith had noticed that the front door of Jefferson’s house was open. On an otherwise placid Saturday night, Smith was concerned about the safety of the Jefferson household so he decided to call the non-emergency line of his local police station to request a wellness check: “[There was no] domestic violence, no arguing, nothing that they should have been concerned about as far as them coming with guns drawn to my neighbor’s house,” said Smith. ...