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		</div><h3><span style="color: #999999;"><em><strong>&#8216;White Texas cop Amber Guyger CLAIMS she gunned down a Black man when she walked into his apartment by mistake, a year after she was involved in another shooting&#8217;</strong></em></span></h3>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Officer Amber Renee Guyger was charged with manslaughter in Dallas on Sunday</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;">Guyger, 30, a White female police officer with Dallas PD was<strong> accused of shooting her 26-year-old neighbor Botham Jean on Thursday </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Guyger, who is a member of an elite police unit said she returned home from shift and entered the wrong apartment mistakenly</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>As some ask if there is a personal angle, Guyger who moved into the apt complex a month ago claims she had never met Jean</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Police reports said the officer returned home in her uniform after a shift and then called dispatch to say she had shot a man.</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Texas Rangers took over the investigation and arrested her over the weekend </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Guyger posted bond of $300,000 and was expected to be released late Sunday</strong></span></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Was allowed to leave jail by the rear door avoiding perp walk for gathered pres</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;">s<br />
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<strong>Officer Amber Renee Guyger [seen in her mugshot], was charged with manslaughter on Sunday<br />
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">The female <a href="https://konniemoments.com/2018/09/09/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/">police officer who shot her neighbor </a>and said she had entered his apartment thinking it was her own has been arrested and charged with manslaughter.<br />
Dallas Police Officer Amber Renee Guyger, 30, was booked into Kaufman County Jail at 7.20pm on Sunday on a charge of manslaughter in the Thursday shooting of 26-year-old Botham Jean, jail records show.</div>
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<p class="meta">Four-year-Dallas police veteran Guyger posted bond of $300,000 and was released by 8.30pm. Kaufman deputies allowed her to leave by the rear of the jail, avoiding the gathered press, rather than the front of the building as is typical for bonded inmates, according to local reports.<br />
<strong>Related:</strong><a href="https://konniemoments.com/2018/09/09/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/" rel="bookmark"> 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</a><br />
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Kaufman County is directly southeast of Dallas County, where the shooting occurred.<br />
In Texas, the penalty for a manslaughter conviction is between two and 20 years in prison.<br />
The Texas Rangers, who took over the investigation on Friday, said the investigation is ongoing and declined to offer further information about the case. The Rangers, a law enforcement group equivalent to state police, ran the investigation to avoid the appearance of any potential bias, Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall said at a press conference on Friday.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-299009" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Amber-Guyger-and-Botham-Jean-4.jpg" alt="Amber Guyger and Botham Jean 4.JPG" width="743" height="551" />Trigger happy? 26-year-old Dallas based accountant Botham Jean, [right], was shot dead by Officer Renee Guyger [left] in his apt in south Dallas on Thursday night. Guyger said she entered the apartment thinking it was her own,<br />
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><img class="alignnone wp-image-299005" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Botham-Jeans-15-year-old-brother-Grant-and-mother-Allison-center-at-a-prayer-service-at-the-Dallas-West-Church-of-Christ-Aug-9-2018.jpg" alt="Botham Jean's 15-year-old brother Grant and mother Allison (center) at a prayer service at the Dallas West Church of Christ Aug 9, 2018" width="682" height="430" /><strong>Anguish of bereaved mom: Allison Jean raises her hands in the air as she leans on her 15-year-old son, Grant [left], during a prayer service for her son at the West Church of Christ in Dallas, TX., on Sunday</strong></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-298969" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Botham-Botham-and-his-family-3.jpg" alt="Botham Botham and his family 3" width="684" height="442" />Happier times: Botham Jean seen with his mom and sister in a Facebook photo</strong></h6>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">Earlier on Sunday, Jean&#8217;s mother Allison and 15-year-old brother Grant mourned his death at an emotional prayer service at Dallas West Church of Christ.<br />
The congregation paid tribute to Jean, a consultant who was active in the church&#8217;s ministry service, by signing his favorite hymn: My God Is Real.<br />
Later Sunday, the family held a press conference at 7pm demanding Guyger&#8217;s arrest, apparently unaware that she had already been arrested in Kaufman County at 6.37pm and was en route to booking.<br />
Jean&#8217;s family has hired attorney Benjamin Crump, who is best known for representing the families of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.<br />
The perplexing shooting unfolded at about 9.59pm on Thursday, when Guyger had just gotten off of a full shift.</div>
<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-298975" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Botham-Jean-8.jpg" alt="Botham Jean 8" width="730" height="525" /><strong>Authorities believe Guyger was confronted by Jean [L-R], who then pulled her gun and shot him<br />
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">According to Guyger, she mistakenly entered the wrong apartment in the complex where she lived, thinking it was her home, and had some kind of confrontation with Jean that ended with her shooting the man with her service weapon.<br />
Guyger, who was in uniform, immediately called 911 to report that she had been involved in a shooting, investigators said.<br />
Police and paramedics administered aid at the scene, and Jean was rushed to an area hospital, where he was declared dead.<br />
The immediate aftermath of the shooting was captured in footage posted by a neighbor, showing a female uniformed officer crying into her phone on a walkway of the apartment block.<br />
She is heard screaming &#8216;oh God!&#8217; into the phone before she dashes away out of view.<br />
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.</div>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-298967" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Amber-Guyger-2.jpg" alt="Amber Guyger 2" width="689" height="429" />A neighbor posted the video yielding this still image of the deadly shooting of Botham Jean by officer Amber Guyger on Aug 6. A uniformed Guyger is seen crying into her phone after the incident</strong></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-298968" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Amber-Guyger-3.jpg" alt="Amber Guyger 3" width="685" height="404" />After the female officer walks away, paramedics wheel out the home owner on a gurney while trying to revive him</strong></h6>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">Guyger has been tested for drugs and alcohol but results are not immediately available, according to Police Chief Renee Hall.<br />
Hall declined to speculate as to whether fatigue or other factors, including race, may have factored into the shooting.<br />
&#8216;Right now, there are more questions than we have answers,&#8217; Hall told a news conference. She said she spoke to Jean&#8217;s sister to express the department&#8217;s condolences to the family.<br />
<img class=" wp-image-299010 alignleft" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Amber-Guyger-6.png" alt="Amber Guyger 6.PNG" width="222" height="347" />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.<br />
She later told the officers who responded that she believed the victim&#8217;s apartment was her own when she entered.<br />
The responding officers administered first aid to Jean, a native of the Caribbean island country 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.<br />
The apartment complex is just a few streets from Dallas police headquarters.</p>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">Dallas police on Saturday revealed Guyger had worked for Dallas Police Department for four years on the Southeast Patrol Division.</div>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">&#8216;She is devastated,&#8217; a Dallas police officer close to Guyger told <a class="class" href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas-police/2018/09/08/dallas-officer-shot-man-apartment-involved-2017-shooting-suspect" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Dallas News</a>. &#8216;She is so, so sorry for this family.&#8217;<br />
Uvaldo Perez, 47, was hit once in the abdomen, but survived and was sentenced to two years on drugs charges. Guyger was found justified in that shooting.<br />
Guyger, the sole woman on an elite crime response team of 10 officers who make high-risk arrests, shot another man in 2017 &#8211; that time a suspect who had taken her Taser.<br />
Residents of the building said they can access their units with a key or through a keypad code. It is unclear whether Jean&#8217;s apartment door was locked at the time of the incident.<br />
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.<br />
Jean&#8217;s mother, Allison, suggested in an interview on Friday that her son might still be alive if he were white. Jean is black and Guyger is white.<br />
&#8216;I didn&#8217;t know she was white until now. If it was a white man would it have been different? Would she have reacted differently?&#8217; she told KXAS.<br />
Allison, who has held government posts in St. Lucia, where she lives and where her son grew up, said her son&#8217;s death &#8216;just feels like a nightmare.&#8217;</div>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-298974" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Botham-Jean-7.jpg" alt="Botham Jean 7" width="677" height="508" /></strong></strong><strong>People who know the young accountant, including his alma matar, said was a devout Christian who regularly led worship when he was at Harding University, a private Christian institution</strong></h6>
<div> State Senator Royce West also raised the racial aspect of the shooting, telling a press conference on Saturday: &#8216;Is this a white on black crime? Yes,&#8217; he said, according to the <a class="class" href="https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/dallas/article218068660.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Star-Telegram</a>.<br />
&#8216;It was a white, female Dallas police officer who shot and killed a person from St. Lucia of African descent.<br />
&#8216;Is this a race-related crime? Don&#8217;t know. I would hold any type of decision you make on what happened until all of the facts come in.&#8217;<br />
West said Guyger entered the apartment through an open door: &#8216;We need to find out whether there was a personal relationship,&#8217; he said. &#8216;There are so many facts that need to be looked at before determining what kind of homicide this is.&#8217; Jean</div>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">Jean graduated from Harding University in 2016, and is pictured speaking there in 2014. He was remembered as a devout Christian who regularly led worship when he was at Harding University, a private Christian institution</div>
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White Texas cop who shot Black neighbor is charged with manslaughter – Officer Amber Guyger claims she killed Botham Jean when she walked into his apartment by mistake on her way back from work
