DALLAS, TX — Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger, who shot and killed her neighbor in his home while mistakenly believing he was an intruder in her own apartment, has been found guilty of murder by a jury in Dallas.
Guyger’s trial in the shooting death of 26-year-old Botham Jean began on Sept. 23. Jean was fatally shot in September 2018 when Guyger entered his home after returning from work and thought she was in her own apartment. Prosecutors said Jean was eating a bowl of vanilla ice cream at the time of the fatal shooting.
On Monday, Assistant District Attorney Jason Fine called Guyger an intruder who killed Jean in his apartment, which was one floor above hers. Fine also dismissed Guyger’s testimony in the trial as “garbage.” Speaking publicly for the first time since the shooting, she said she mistook Jean’s apartment for her own after a long shift and believed there was an intruder in her apartment when she found the door unlocked.
Lead prosecutor Jason Hermus said Guyger should have known she was outside the wrong apartment — at which point she drew her gun — because of the distinctive bright red doormat that lay at the entrance to Jean’s home. Hermus also said that even if she missed that sign, she should have retreated and called for backup when she found the door unlocked.
Defense attorney Toby Shook noted that other residents have also gone to the wrong apartment in the complex after parking on the wrong floor.
After the September 2018 shooting, Guyger was fired from the Dallas police force. She had been an officer with the department since November 2013.
Jean, a native of the Caribbean island nation of St. Lucia, had graduated from Harding University in Arkansas in 2016 and was working in Dallas for the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Reporting and writing from The Associated Press was used in this report.
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