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Dallas police officer Amber Renee Guyger was arrested Sunday on a manslaughter warrant for the death of a black man at his home.
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Dallas police officer Amber Renee Guyger was arrested Sunday on a manslaughter warrant for the death of a black man at his home.
Kaufman County Sheriff's Office via AP
Updated at 22:56 ET
Dallas police on Sunday arrested police officer Amber Guyger for manslaughter after shooting a man in his apartment last week. Guyger said that she mistakenly believed that she had gone home to the same building.
An arrest warrant affidavit indicates that the officer found the door open to what she thought was her own apartment. He said that it was dark inside, she saw the silhouette of a man and she gave him orders that he did not follow. She told the investigators that she thought the man was a burglar.
A family lawyer challenged this version of events, according to WFAA TV. Lee Merritt said he spoke with two witnesses who said they heard a knock on a door and a woman who they thought was the officer saying, "Let me in". He also said that Jean had placed a red carpet on his door to differentiate his apartment from the others.
Guyger, 30, is a four-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department. She fired on Botham Shem Jean, 26, Thursday night after returning to South Side Flats. Guyger was then in uniform and had just finished his shift. She called 911 after shooting Jean, who was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
On Monday morning, the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office stated that Jean's death was a homicide, claiming that he had died from a gunshot wound in the chest, according to the Dallas KERA station .
The killing has caused a shock in the community – and speculation as to whether Guyger's explanation should be taken literally. And then there is the element of the breed: Guyger is white; Jean was black.
"Right now, there are more questions than answers," Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall told reporters at a news conference.
Jean's mother, Allison Jean, told reporters on Monday: "I asked too many questions, and it was said that there was no answer yet. </ P> "Looking forward to all the powers to find the answers to my questions." Make me happier than they do what is in the best interest of getting justice for Botham. "
The apartment building South Side Flats where Guyger shot Botham Shem Jean is seen here in a street view from Google Maps. Guyger went into Jean's apartment thinking that it was his.
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The apartment building South Side Flats where Guyger shot Botham Shem Jean is seen here in a street view from Google Maps. Guyger went into Jean's apartment thinking that it was his.
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"Jean was not the first person shot by Guyger," reports KERA. "She shot another man, Uvaldo Perez, in May 2017 while she was on duty, she was not charged."
The police first treated the incident as a "shooting involving an officer".
"However," said Hall, "as we continued this investigation, it became clear that we were dealing with what appears to be a very different and very unique situation."
The police chief said that a blood sample had been taken to search for drugs and alcohol, without providing more details, and noted that the Texas Rangers had been called to take in load the folder.
"It's not clear what was the interaction between her and the victim," she said.
Hall said she'd wanted to get a warrant for manslaughter against her own officer on Friday – but that the Rangers had chosen to delay the move after speaking with Guyger.
Commentators on the Dallas Police Department Facebook page have criticized Guyger's billing delay.
"If Pookie had taken someone's life, he would have been arrested on the spot," wrote Tonya Moore in response to the department's publication on Guyger. "And you wonder why community relations are bad."
Others have complained about the speed with which Guyger sailed into the criminal justice system after his arrest Sunday night. She was able to go to the police, be treated and pay a deposit of $ 300,000 in about an hour, rather than spend a night in jail.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings made a statement congratulating the investigators and the community on their reaction to the assassination, urging Twitter user Shannon Toye to respond: "
As Camila Domonoske of NPR reported about John:
"Jean was a graduate of Harding University in Arkansas and worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers, reports the Dallas Morning News.
"He was originally from the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia and was the eldest son of a former government minister and his mother was permanent secretary of the Ministry of Education, Innovation. , Gender and Sustainable Development, according to the St. Lucia Times. "
John's family has urged patience to allow due process to proceed, while urging the police to seek justice. According to KERA, attorney S. Lee Merritt, who represents the Jeans, said that they wanted Guyger "to be treated like all other citizens and that, if there is evidence that They committed a crime, an arrest to be made. "
Anthony Cave from KERA contributed to this story.
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