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2018 murder case in Texas

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Murder of Botham Jean
South Side Flats - Dallas Texas - June 2021.jpg

The South Side Flats in Dallas, Texas, where the murder occurred.
Date September 6, 2018 (2018-09-06)
Location Dallas, Texas, U.s.
Coordinates 32°46′11″Due north 96°47′45″West  /  32.769592°N 96.795944°Due west  / 32.769592; -96.795944 Coordinates: 32°46′11″N 96°47′45″West  /  32.769592°N 96.795944°Westward  / 32.769592; -96.795944
Type Murder, shooting
Deaths Botham Shem Jean
Convicted Amber Renée Guyger
Charges Manslaughter (upgraded to murder)
Verdict Guilty
Convictions Murder
Judgement x years in prison

On the dark of September half-dozen, 2018, off-duty Dallas Police Department patrol officeholder Amber Guyger entered the Dallas, Texas, apartment of 26-yr-quondam accountant Botham Jean and fatally shot him. Guyger, who said that she had entered the apartment believing it was her own and believed Jean to exist a infiltrator,[1] [2] was initially charged with manslaughter. The absenteeism of a murder charge led to protests and accusations of racial bias, since Jean was black and unarmed and was killed in his home by a white off-duty officer who had evidently disregarded police protocols. On November 30, 2018, Guyger was indicted on a charge of murder.[3] On October 1, 2019, she was found guilty of murder, and was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment the following day.[4] The ruling was upheld by a courtroom of appeals in 2021.[v]

Murder [edit]

Location of the murder[vi]

Botham Jean and Amber Guyger lived in South Side Flats, a 4-story apartment complex located at the corner of Southward Lamar Street and Powhattan Street—two blocks northwest of the headquarters of Dallas Police Department, for which Guyger worked equally a patrol officer—in the Cedars commune in Due south Dallas.[vii] The floor plans for each level of the edifice are mostly identical. Guyger's flat on the third floor (number 1378), in which she had lived for approximately two months past the time of the murder, was located directly below Jean's flat on the fourth floor (number 1478).[8]

On September 6, 2018, Guyger left work at 9:33 p.one thousand. at the end of a 13.five-hour shift. She drove to the apartment circuitous, parking her vehicle in the parking garage of the fourth floor at 9:46 p.grand.[8] At this time, she was speaking over the phone with her partner, who had telephoned her during her journey home, in a conversation which lasted until 9:55 p.m.[9] Yet armed with a handgun but no longer wearing a body camera, Guyger walked to Jean'due south apartment, supposedly believing it was her own and failing to notice any signs that she was on the incorrect floor, including a distinctive red doormat outside the apartment.[10] Attempting to unlock the door, she noticed it was ajar.[11] She entered the apartment and found Jean, who was sitting in his living room eating ice foam, unarmed.[12] [13] Guyger fired her handgun twice at Jean, striking him in the chest.[14] She would later prove that she believed him to be an intruder,[15] and that she feared he would impale her.[xvi] Guyger telephoned 9-1-1 at 9:59 p.thousand.[17] Jean was taken to a nearby infirmary, where he died from his wound. The Texas Rangers investigated the shooting, which led to Guyger's arrest iii days afterwards.[18]

Guyger was initially charged with manslaughter, but was later on charged with murder.[12] The initial charge of manslaughter and the racial aspect of the shooting resulted in protests in the post-obit days.[12]

The Dallas Police force Department placed Guyger on paid authoritative leave after the shooting. The department fired her on September 24, 2018.[19]

Victim [edit]

Botham Jean
Born

Botham Shem Jean


(1991-09-29)September 29, 1991[xx]

Castries, Saint Lucia
Died September 6, 2018(2018-09-06) (aged 26)

Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Cause of death Gunshot wound
Occupation Accountant
Known for Murder victim

Botham Shem Jean, a 26-yr-old black homo, was a Harding University alumnus and an accountant for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Jean was built-in in Saint Lucia.[21] :i [22]

Following the shooting, an attorney representing Jean'south family unit accused the Dallas Police Department of attempting to smear Jean'south reputation by publicizing a constabulary affirmation showing that police seized 0.368 ounces (x.4 thousand) of marijuana from Jean's apartment.[23] The lawyers also disputed the account of the incident that Guyger told officials, which was recorded in the arrest warrant affirmation, and asserted that 2 independent witnesses had come forrard to give recollections that conflicted with Guyger's account. An chaser for Jean asserted that witnesses claimed they heard knocking on the door to Jean'southward apartment and that a witness claimed they heard a adult female's voice saying "Let me in, let me in."[24]

Perpetrator [edit]

Amber Guyger
Born (1988-08-09) August 9, 1988 (historic period 33)

Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Occupation Former constabulary officer
Employer Dallas Police Department
Criminal status Imprisoned
Motive Mistaken identity
Confidence(s) Murder
Criminal penalisation 10 years in prison
(5 years non-parole)
Details
Date September 6, 2018
Killed Botham Jean
Weapon Handgun

Amber Renée Guyger (born August 9, 1988)[25] was 30 years old at the time of the shooting. She had been on the Dallas constabulary force for almost 5 years.

Trial [edit]

On November 30, 2018, Guyger was indicted on murder charges by a Dallas County grand jury.[26] On September 22, 2019, the day earlier the trial began, Dallas Canton Commune Attorney John Creuzot took part in an interview regarding the trial in spite of a gag gild issued past Approximate Tammy Kemp in January of that year. Later on questioning jurors, who reported that they had not seen the interview or other media coverage of the trial, Kemp denied the defence force'due south motion for a mistrial, and sequestered the jury.[27]

Manslaughter charges would have merely required proof of recklessness, while murder charges require proof that the accused intended to kill.[28] The prosecutors declared criminal intent for two reasons: firstly, they said her inflow at the wrong apartment (on the incorrect floor) was non acquired by tiredness, but rather caused by the conversation she had immediately prior with her lover trying to arrange a meeting that dark, and secondly that she did not follow standard law protocol of not entering a building with a potential burglar inside and instead calling for backup from the police station, which was only ii blocks away.[28] :1 [29]

On October one, 2019, Guyger was establish guilty of murder.[30] The jury deliberated for six hours to reach the verdict of murder.[28] The jurors as well considered the lesser charge of manslaughter.[28] She was the first Dallas police officer to be convicted of murder since the 1973 murder of Santos Rodriguez.[28]

On Oct ii, 2019, Guyger was sentenced to 10 years in prison subsequently the jury deliberated for an hour.[4] During the sentencing hearing, Jean's female parent Allison provided emotional testimony and some of Guyger'south text messages and social media posts that were "racist and offensive" were shared.[31] Jean'south younger brother Brandt forgave and hugged Guyger during her sentencing. Jean'south begetter Bertrum besides stated that he forgave Guyger but had wanted a stiffer sentence. Trial judge Tammy Kemp, who is also African-American, drew controversy when she embraced Guyger and handed her a Bible, with the Freedom from Organized religion Foundation criticizing her for alleged proselytizing.[32] [33] [34] [35]

On Oct 16, 2019, Guyger's attorneys filed a notice of appeal requesting a new trial.[36] [37] On August 7, 2020, Guyger's attorneys filed an entreatment, alleging that bereft evidence existed to convict her of murder. The appeal sought either an acquittal, or a reduction in accuse to criminally negligent homicide with a new hearing for sentencing on the reduced charge.[38] On August 5, 2021, the Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas upheld Guyger's murder conviction, unanimously holding that the jury verdict was reasonable and Guyger's own testimony supported the murder charge.[39] On November 17 of that year, the Fifth Court of Appeals again upheld her murder conviction using similar reasoning, stating that her defense that she had unknowingly entered the wrong apartment did not justify the bottom charge of criminally negligent homicide. She can now appeal to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the court of final resort for criminal cases in the country.[xl]

Guyger is currently imprisoned in the Mountain View Correctional Center.[41] She will be eligible for release as early as September 2024, although her full judgement runs until September 2029.[42]

Controversies involving witnesses [edit]

On January 31, 2019, ABC News reported that a female witness—identified just as "Bunny"—had taken a video of Guyger's actions immediately after the shooting. The witness claimed to have been harassed and threatened by unidentified Cyberspace trolls subsequently providing the video to the Dallas County District Attorney's Role and later posting it on social media.[43]

On October 4, 2019, cardinal prosecution witness and Jean'south across-the-hall neighbour, Joshua Brown, was shot and killed in the parking lot[44] of some other apartment circuitous he had moved to, about 5 miles (8.0 km) from where Jean and Guyger had lived.[45] [46] Witnesses could non describe the shooter or shooters, simply the vehicle they drove.[47] On October 8, Dallas police announced that they had identified three suspects in Brown's killing and had arrested 1 of them, and that the suspects were engaged in a drug bargain with Brown when he was shot.[48] A search of Brown'southward apartment yielded 12 pounds (v.4 kg) of marijuana, 5.04 ounces (143 thou) of THC cartridges and $iv,000 in cash; notwithstanding, advocates questioned police claims that the three men had traveled 300 miles (480 km) from Alexandria, Louisiana, to purchase drugs from Dark-brown, and an attorney representing Brown'southward family called for an contained investigation by another agency. Dallas Assistant Police Principal Avery Brown denied that Joshua Dark-brown's expiry was related to Guyger's trial.[49] A second suspect was arrested the adjacent day,[50] and on December 8, all three men were indicted on charges of uppercase murder, although one of them remained at large.[51]

Memorials [edit]

Dallas Law headquarters in 2021, with updated Botham Jean Blvd. (formerly Lamar St.) sign.

On January 13, 2021, the Dallas City Quango unanimously voted to rename approximately four miles (6.iv km) of South Lamar Street from Interstate 30 to South Primal Expressway (Due south.M. Wright Freeway) as Botham Jean Boulevard. The street passes Jean's former apartment and Dallas constabulary headquarters.[52]

See as well [edit]

  • List of unarmed African Americans killed by law enforcement officers in the U.s.
  • List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, September 2018
  • Shooting of Atatiana Jefferson

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