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Botham Shem Jean, a 26-year-old Black man, was a Harding University alumnus and an accountant for PwC.Jean was born in Saint Lucia. [21]: 1 [22]Following the shooting, an attorney representing Jean's family accused the Dallas Police Department of attempting to smear Jean's reputation by publicizing a police affidavit showing that police seized 0.368 ounces (10.4 g) of marijuana from Jean's ...
Amber Guyger was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2019 for killing 26-year-old Botham Shem Jean, a Black man she mistook for an intruder. The parole hearing was Guyger’s first, and comes ...
A federal jury on Wednesday ordered a former Dallas police officer to pay nearly $100 million to the family of a man she fatally shot in his apartment in 2018.. Amber Guyger is serving a 10-year ...
A former Dallas police officer who was convicted of killing a Black man after she mistook his apartment for her own six years ago is now eligible for parole.. Amber Guyger was still in uniform ...
DALLAS — Amber Guyger, the former Dallas police officer convicted of murdering 26-year-old accountant Botham Jean in his apartment six years ago, was ordered to pay the Jean family $98.6 million ...
Jean’s killing sparked outrage and protests in Dallas, and also garnered national attention amid ongoing controversies and conversations about police killings of Black men.
On September 6, 2018, Dallas patrol officer Amber Guyger, in uniform but off duty after a daylong shift, [34] entered the apartment of Botham Jean and shot and killed him. Guyger said that she had entered the apartment believing it was her own and shot Jean believing he was a burglar. [35] [36] She then called 911. Jean was taken to a nearby ...
On Nov. 20, a federal jury concluded that ex-Dallas police officer Amber Guyger used excessive force and violated Jean’s constitutional rights when she shot him on Sept. 6, 2018, according to ...