Monday morning marked day one of the trial for former police officer Amber Guyger who's accused of murdering 26-year-old Botham Jean.
Monday morning marked day one of the trial for a case that captivated the nation one year ago. Former Dallas, Texas police officer Amber Guyger, 31, who is white, is accused of murdering 26-year-old Botham Jean, a black resident in her apartment complex, after allegedly thinking he was an intruder after mistaking his apartment for her own.
Guyger is accused of shooting and killing Jean on Sept. 6, 2018. She told investigators that following a double shift, she went into Jean’s apartment, which was one floor above her own, and saw the door slightly ajar. She fired two shots, one of which hit Jean, who was unarmed, in the torso. “The family has no doubt in their mind that she shot Botham because she saw a black man and she thought, 'criminal,'" Ben Crump, one of the attorneys for the Jean family, told NPR earlier this month.
Following the shooting, the Jean family filed a lawsuit against the city of Dallas alleging that the former officer used excessive force. NPR reported that the civil case was put on hold until the conclusion of the criminal trial.
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