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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 ...
The family of a man shot and killed by a Dallas police officer who said she mistook his apartment for her own was awarded nearly $100 million Wednesday in a federal civil trial.
The family of Botham Jean, the Texas man who was killed by an off-duty police officer in his own apartment in 2018, will be awarded nearly $100 million following a civil trial.. On Nov. 20, a ...
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 ...
In November 2024, the family of Botham Jean received a $98.65 million jury verdict in a federal civil lawsuit against former Dallas police officer Amber Guyer. [85] Botham Jean was killed in his apartment in 2018 when Guyer, who was off-duty, "mistook" his apartment for her own, despite Jean's apartment being one floor above her own. [85]
The street in front of Dallas police headquarters was renamed Botham Jean Blvd. in 2021. 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 ...
Amber Guyger is serving a 10-year sentence for the murder of Botham Jean, a 26-year-old Black man who lived in the same building. At the murder trial, Guyger testified that she returned from an ...
On June 28, judge Lee Gabriel approved the defense's recusal motion, removing Hagerman from presiding over the trial. [44] After Hagerman's recusal, the trial was assigned to Judge Gallagher and delayed again. [45] On August 18, 2022, a new trial date of December 5 was set, with jury selection slated to begin on November 28. [46]