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Gross blunder or homicide? Questions on why Amber Guyger, elite female cop who shot dead neighbor after she ‘MISTAKENLY walked into his apartment thinking it was her own,’ has not been charged

Posted on September 9, 2018 by konniemoments in Crime, Homicide, News // 1 Comment

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Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger was identified as the off-duty officer who shot 26-year-old male neighbour in an apt block in south Dallas on Thursday night – yet to be charged
The female cop claims she shot Botham Jean after she ‘mistakenly walked into his apt thinking it was her own’
A video posted by a neighbour emerged of Guyger crying as paramedics try to revive the man she had shot in his own home
Amber Guyger returned from shift and entered the wrong apartment, she says
It was revealed that the four-year veteran of Dallas PD was also involved in the shooting of a suspect last year
Belonged to 26-year-old Botham Jean, who died in hospital after she shot him
Jean, a 26-year-old who works for accounting firm PwC, studied at Harding University after moving to the US from his native St Lucia
No charges have been brought against officer Guyger after Dallas police recanted their initial pledge to place her under arrest
DPD handed off the case to the Texas Rangers who postponed seeking a warrant for manslaughter charges, pending further investigations
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30-year-old Amber Guyger [left], was identified as the off-duty officer who shot 26-year-old neighbour, Botham Jean, in an apt block in south Dallas on Thursday night 

A white policewoman who gunned down a black accountant in Texas has been identified as new video emerges of the frantic moments after the officer mistakenly entered his home thinking it was hers and opened fire.

Amber Guyger, 30, was identified as the off-duty officer who shot 26-year-old Botham Jean in an apartment block in south Dallas on Thursday night.
In a tweet on Saturday night, the Dallas Police Department identified the officer as Amber Guyger. The officer was identified first in a twitter posting by Lee Merritt, one of the attorneys hired to represent the Jean family.
Guyger’s name had also been circulating throughout social media since at least Friday
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Jean, 26, was killed in his own apartment on Thursday night by an off-duty, uniformed Dallas Police officer who said she mistook Jean’s apartment for her own when she got off work at about 10 p.m.
Several questions still remain, such as how the officer got into the apartment, why she thought it was hers, and if she and Jean knew each other.
On Saturday afternoon, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and state Sen. Royce West held a press conference. They asked for Dallas residents to be patient as they work to figure out what exactly happened Thursday night.
In another Instagram footage posted by a neighbor, a female uniformed officer crying into her phone on a walkway of the apartment block. She is heard screaming ‘oh God!’ into the phone before she dashes away out of view.
Moments later, the victim is pulled past on a gurney as medics desperately try to revive him. Four officers follow directly behind and another runs to catch up.
Dallas police on Saturday revealed Guyger had worked for Dallas Police Department for four years on the Southeast Patrol Division.
Dallas police initially said they would seek her arrest but then handed the case over to the Texas Rangers in order for an unbiased investigation. The Texas Rangers postponed seeking a warrant for manslaughter charges, saying they needed more time to investigate information that had only recently emerged following their interview with the officer.

Amber Guyger 2The footage from the aftermath of the deadly shooting of Botham Jean by Amber Guyger a female cop on Thursday shows the alleged shooter crying into her phone after the incident
Amber Guyger 3After the woman police officer walks away, medics come by with Jean on a trolley as they frantically try to revive him
‘She is devastated,’ a Dallas police officer close to Guyger told Dallas News. ‘She is so, so sorry for this family.’
Guyger, the sole woman on an elite crime response team of 10 officers who make high-risk arrests, in 2017 shot a male a suspect who had taken her Taser.
Uvaldo Perez, 47, was hit once in the abdomen, but survived and was sentenced to two years on drugs charges. Guyger was not indicted over that shooting.
The policewoman moved into the South Side Flats about a month ago but had never met Jean. According to police, she returned home in her uniform after a shift and then called dispatch to say she had shot a man.
She later told the officers who responded that she believed the victim’s apartment was her own when she entered.
The responding officers administered first aid to Jean, a native of St Lucia who attended Harding University in Arkansas and worked for accounting and consulting firm PwC. Jean was taken to a hospital, where he died.
Commenting on the incident, Police Chief Renee Hall said Guyger has been tested for drugs and alcohol but results are not immediately available, but she declined to speculate as to whether fatigue or other factors, including race, may have factored into the shooting.
Texas Rangers will conduct an independent investigation, Chief hall said.
72 hours after the shooting, a warrant for Guyger’s arrest has not been issued because the Rangers wanted to examine new information first.
‘Right now, there are more questions than we have answers,’ Hall told a news conference.
Botham Botham and his family 3Jean Botham, seen [center] with mom Allison  and sister, grew up on the Caribbean Island of St Lucia and studied at Harding University in Arkansas
Officials believe Guyger was confronted by Jean, who pulled her gun on him and fired.
Residents of the building said they can access their units with a key or through a keypad code.
Jeffrey Scherzer, who lives at the complex, said when he returned home late at night an officer escorted him to his flat and warned him to steer clear of a blood trail.
Jean’s mother, Allison speaking from her home in St. Lucia, suggested in an interview on Friday that her son might still be alive if he was white.
‘I didn’t know she was white until now. If it was a white man would it have been different? Would she have reacted differently?’ she queried.
State Senator Royce West also raised the racial aspect of the shooting, telling a press conference on Saturday: ‘Is this a white on black crime? Yes,’ he said, according to the Star-Telegram.
‘It was a white, female Dallas police officer who shot and killed a person from St. Lucia of African descent.
‘Is this a race-related crime? Don’t know. I would hold any type of decision you make on what happened until all of the facts come in.’
West said Guyger entered the apartment through an open door: ‘We need to find out whether there was a personal relationship,’ he said. ‘There are so many facts that need to be looked at before determining what kind of homicide this is.’
Botham Jean 8Jean’s alma matar said was a devout Christian who regularly led worship [right], when he was at Harding University, a private Christian institution 
Botham Jean 6Jean is pictured speaking in 2014, making his pitch to become the president of his school’s student association. He graduated from Harding University in 2016.
Family and friends described Jean as a devout Christian and a talented singer. His uncle Ignatius Jean said the slaying left relatives devastated and looking for answers.”
Harding University said on Friday Jean often led campus worship services while he was a student.
The victim’s sister, Allisa Charles-Findley, is seeking ‘answers for my baby brother.
‘Just last week I was thinking of what to get you for your birthday,’ she wrote on Facebook, ‘now I have to go pick out your casket.’
The government of St Lucia issued a statement Friday expressing ‘shock’ at the killing and extending condolences to the Jean family. It said officials at its embassy in the US would provide assistance to the family.
Botham Jean's apt in Dallas, TexasOfficer Guyger, a member of an elite police squad claims she ‘mistakenly walked into [neighbourr] Botham Jean’s apt [photo], thinking it was her own’. The mystery is what provokd her to draw and fire the fatal shot
The shooting happened just before 10pm Thursday at the South Side Flats in south Dallas
Neighbor Alyssa Kinsey told The Dallas Morning News that Jean helped her move new furniture into her apartment soon after she moved into the building with her family in April.
‘I’ll remember his smile,’ she said. ‘It just lit up a room.’
The Jean family’s attorney Lee Merritt, said on Saturday evening that they are upset that a warrant hasn’t been issued against Guyger.
“The warrant that seemed to be looming was withdrawn,” he said. “From everything we’ve heard, we’re not sure exactly what happened. Everyone we’ve spoke to today provides enough evidence for a charge of manslaughter … there is likely evidence for an even stiffer penalty.”
Merritt also denied rumors floating around social media that Jean knew the officer who killed him.
“We have nothing to substantiate those claims,” he said. “Certainly no one that has been attached to the family or any of the law enforcement officers we’ve spoken to can confirm that, in fact they say just the opposite.”
At a vigil held on Friday night, Sara Mokuria, a co-founder of Mothers Against Police Brutality demanded “full transparency,” in police handling of the killing. This is an unacceptable way for Dallas to represent itself to the world, she said.
“We would like the name of the officer to be released publicly and we would like the district attorney to act swiftly and give us immediate charges … We know that there have been calls for peace, but peace does not come without justice, and so in this moment we are calling for justice.”

 

 

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