Mother wonders if the race was a factor in her son's death in Dallas

DALLAS – The mother of a black man who was shot at his home A Dallas white policeman, who said he took his apartment for her, suggested that her son might still be alive when he was white.

Allison Jean, 26-year-old Botham Jean's mother, wondered if the race was a factor when the officer shot and killed his son after returning home in uniform on his nightly shift.

"I did not know that she was white until now.If he was a white man, would he have been different? Would she have reacted differently?" Jean said Friday in images broadcast by KXAS.

The authorities stated that the officer was white, but did not publish his name or other details about him.

Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall said on Friday that the officer would be charged with manslaughter. But the WFAA TV channel said on Facebook Saturday that the warrant had not been awarded because the Texas Rangers, who are conducting an independent investigation, asked his department not to wait because they needed more time to examine the shooting.

"The ball is in their court," said Hall. She acknowledged that many questions remained about the shooting and asked the public to give the investigators enough time to get the answers.

Two women living on the second floor, near where the shooting took place, said they heard a lot of noise late Thursday. Caitlin Simpson, 20, told the Dallas Morning News.

Yazmine Hernandez, 20, was studying with Simpson when they heard the commotion. "We heard cops screaming, but we had no idea what was going on," Hernandez said.

The Department of Public Safety, which oversees the Texas Rangers, did not immediately respond to a Saturday phone message requesting a comment. Hall said Friday that the agent's blood had been collected for drug and alcohol testing and she acknowledged that there were still a lot of questions about the events that had leads to the death of John.

Allison Jean, who has held government posts in St. Lucia, where she lives and where her son grew up, said that her son's death "is a nightmare".

The island's government issued a statement on Friday in which it expressed its "shock" to the killing and offered its condolences to the Jean family. He said officials from his embassy in the United States would provide assistance to the family.

Botham Jean studied at Harding University in Arkansas and, after graduating in 2016, he lived and worked in Dallas in the PwC accounting and consulting firm. The private school said Friday that he often ran the campus worship services while he was a student.