Amber Guyger and the murder of Botham Jean [True Crime]

On the night of September 6th, 2018, Amber Guyger, a Dallas police officer was returning home to her apartment at the South Side Flats apartment complex. Her shift that day had run over 13 hours; one of many overtime shifts that she had taken on that week. Exhausted and distracted by text messages, she arrived at the apartment door to hear shuffling noises inside. Frightened by what she assumed to be an intruder in her home, she pulled her gun and entered the unit. There were no lights turned on inside. She sees only the silhouette of what she perceived was a threatening figure in her home. Instinctively, and claiming a fear for her own life, the police officer fired two shots.

Botham Jean, a 26 year-old accountant was shot in the chest from one of Amber's shots and would not survive. When the young police officer turned on the lights inside the apartment, she was met with a horrible realisation. Amber was not in her apartment, but rather one of an identical layout exactly one floor above her own. And she had just shot an innocent man inside his own home.

The subsequent arrest and trial would capture the attention of the nation while the jury considered if this was an act of malice or a tragic accident.

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