Fort Worth Weekly
Song for Atatiana
With his first single and video release, Jeff Dazey aims to help heal a community anguished by police violence while fundraising for a new community center.
By Edward Brown
Photo by Brooks Burris with artwork by Jenny Lane.
Few events in recent memory have shaken Fort Worth like the killing of Atatiana Jefferson. The 28-year-old Black woman who was shot and killed by Aaron Dean, a white police officer, as she played video games in a house with her nephew Zion, who lived just a few miles from musician Jeff Dazey.
“I was out of town on tour with a band when it happened,” Dazey said, referring to the October 12, 2019 shooting.