Trial Begins For Former Dallas Cop Charged With Murder

Officer Amber Guyger shot Botham Jean in his Dallas apartment.

By Bill ZeebleSeptember 23, 2019 9:30 am, , ,

From KERA:

The murder trial of Amber Guyger gets underway Monday in Dallas. She’s the Dallas police officer who shot and killed 26-year-old Botham Jean while he was in his own apartment.

There is no dispute that Guyger shot and killed accountant Jean in his 4th-floor apartment in Southside Flats. As Guyger said in her 911 call right after the shooting, she thought she had entered her apartment directly below Jean’s. In the recording obtained by WFAA TV, she asked for emergency medical help.

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