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Ms. Johnson said her office continued to gather evidence in this case. She declined to describe this information or to provide a timetable for the presentation of the findings to a grand jury.
A spokesman for the Texas Rangers declined to comment on Monday after referring to a statement released Sunday by the agency about the officer's arrest.
The Guyger Bureau, a member of the Dallas Police Department for four years and assigned to the Patrol Division, was involved in a shootout last year. She shot a man in the stomach who had caught the taser from his police during a clash. The man survived and she was not charged in this episode, reported the Dallas Morning News.
In an interview Sunday evening, Lee Merritt, a lawyer for Mr. Jean's family, applauded Guyger's arrest but wondered why the authorities had waited to detain her. "We do not want that to be lost to anyone, if it had been a regular citizen, she would never have left the crime scene," Merritt said.
Officials did not say how officer Guyger might have confused the apartment with himself or what interaction she had with Mr. Jean just before filming. Mayor Michael S. Rawlings of Dallas said over the weekend that Constable Guyger had told the police that she had parked her car on the wrong floor of the building before the shooting.
At the press conference on Monday, Rawlings denounced the misinformation posted on social media about the case, including the possibility that Mr. Jean and Constable Guyger were aware.
Members of Mr. Jean's family, including his mother, Allison Jean, a former senior government official in St. Lucia, where his son was born and raised, also attended the press conference. Mr. Jean moved to Dallas after college in 2016 and worked for the PwC audit firm, formerly known as PricewaterhouseCoopers.
"Botham was a model citizen," Rawlings said Monday. "When you lose someone this way that way, we cry and our heart breaks with this family."
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