Amber Guyger, the former Dallas police officer convicted of killing a man in his own apartment when she mistakenly thought it was her unit, lost her first round of appeals this week. Botham Jean was sitting on his sofa eating ice cream on September 6, 2018, when Guyger, still in uniform, entered his apartment. She …
Lawyers for a former Texas police officer who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for fatally shooting a man in his own apartment appeared in court Tuesday to appeal her murder conviction. Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was convicted of murder for fatally shooting her upstairs neighbor, Botham Jean, 26, in his own apartment …
A Texas police officer who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing her neighbor in his own apartment filed an appeal Tuesday to have her 2019 murder conviction overturned. Lawyers representing Amber Guyger requested the former Dallas police officer be convicted of negligent homicide instead of murder. The defense team also asked for …
A prosecution witness in the trial of ex-cop Amber Guyger for the killing of Botham Jean was shot dead in Dallas Friday evening, CBS DFW reported. Joshua Brown, 28, lived across the hall from Jean and testified about the night Guyger entered Jean’s apartment instead of hers and shot him dead. Brown testified that he …
PricewaterhouseCoopers tapped Arlington, Texas, artists Norman Lee and Shane Allbritton to create a portrait of Botham Jean, who had worked at the company in Dallas since his internship there in 2015, after Jean’s death at the hands of then-police officer Amber Guyger. The portrait was unveiled Tuesday night, just hours after a jury found Guyger …
Sixteen people – 12 jurors and four alternates – are set to hear the case of Amber Guyger, a former Dallas police officer who shot and killed an unarmed man in his own apartment. Jury selection finished Friday night at the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas, and State District Judge Tammy Kemp telephoned those …
Jury selection has begun in the high-profile murder trial for a former Texas police officer who fatally shot her upstairs neighbor in his own apartment last year. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that more than 500 prospective jurors were summoned to the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas on Friday—on the one-year anniversary of Amber …
The City of Dallas recently released a heavily-redacted incident report of ex-officer Amber Guyger’s fatal shooting of her upstairs neighbor, Botham Jean. KDFW made the open records request and noted that the provided document was “extremely small” compared to documents of its kind. They reported that incident reports are usually detailed but, in this case, …
Amber Guyger, the former officer accused of fatally shooting an unarmed black man in his own Dallas apartment, was reportedly indicted on murder charges Friday. Sources close to the case told WFAA that the Dallas County grand jury opted to indict Guyger, 30, on a murder charge for the September 6 shooting death of Botham Jean, …
City officials in Dallas, Texas, are being accused of launching a cover-up as they’ve reportedly refused to release a 911 call recording, autopsy report, and other crucial information related to ex-officer Amber Guyger’s fatal shooting of her unarmed neighbor, Botham Jean. The Dallas Morning News said they requested the 911 call Guyger placed the night …
Dallas police officer Amber Guyger has reportedly moved out of the apartment building where she fatally shot her upstairs neighbor, Botham Jean, as he stood inside his home earlier this month. WFAA reported that an email was sent to residents at South Side Flats, informing them that Guyger, 30, “no longer resides at our community.” It’s …
The sister of a Texas man shot and killed by an officer in his apartment last week said her brother never left his door unlocked—contradicting comments the officer reportedly made to police. Allisa Jean, the sister of Botham Jean, 26, told CBS News Wednesday that it’s highly unlikely that her brother was in the dark …
