Dallas Police Officer Amber Renee Guyger has been identified as the female cop who shot and killed her neighbor after she had entered his apartment thinking it was her own.
Guyger, 30, has since been arrested and charged with manslaughter. She was booked into was booked into the Kaufman County Jail. After being checked into Kaufman County Jail around 7:20 p.m. on Sunday, September 9, and posted bond of $300,000 and was released by 8:30 p.m.
According to various reports, Guyger fatally shot 26-year-old Botham Jean on Thursday, September 6, inside of Jean’s apartment. Jean grew up on the Caribbean Island of St Lucia and studied at Harding University in Arkansas.
via The Washington Post:
Guyger, still in uniform after working a shift, went inside Jean’s apartment, apparently thinking that it was hers. Police have said little else about what happened, other than that Guyger fired her weapon. She called 911, and Jean died at a hospital.
A video taken from outside the building shows the officer on her phone, pacing back and forth outside the apartment, and crying. Paramedics were later seen moving a man on a gurney and performing CPR on him.
Authorities had initially held off on obtaining an arrest warrant for Guyger. Dallas Police Chief Renée Hall said investigators needed more time to decipher what they have described as an unusual case of a shooting by an officer. The Texas Ranger Division, a separate agency that’s investigating the case, had asked that the warrant be postponed.
The Washington Post reports that a police spokeswoman referred questions to the Texas Ranger Division. The Texas Department of Public Safety, which oversees the Texas Rangers Division, has not responded to a request for comment beyond issuing a brief news release announcing Guyger’s arrest.
Guyger, who has been with the Dallas Police Department since 2014, has been placed on administrative leave.
If convicted of manslaughter, Guyge faces between two and 20 years in prison.
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