The Dallas police officer who killed 26-year-old Botham Jean in his own apartment got inside because the door wasn’t locked, a law enforcement official said Sunday.
Officer Amber Guyger had just ended a 15-hour shift when she parked on the wrong level of the South Side Flats garage— the fourth floor instead of the third, where she lived, according to the official who has direct knowledge of the case but is not authorized to discuss it publicly.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings also said Sunday that Guyger parked on the wrong floor.
She went to the door she thought was hers but was one floor too high. The four floors of the South Side Flats in the Cedars look the same, with concrete floors and tan doors. A light fixture to the side of each door displays the apartment number.
Guyger, 30, was arrested Sunday on a manslaughter charge and was booked into the Kaufman County Jail. The Texas Rangers are investigating the case at the request of Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall. In the last year, juries have sentenced two police officers in Dallas County to prison time after convicting them of murder.
The night of the shooting, Guyger didn’t notice that Jean’s door had a red doormat in front of it, the official said. Her entrance didn’t have one.
Guyger, who was still in uniform, put her key in the door, which was unlocked, and the door opened, the official said. The lights were out. She saw a figure in the darkness and thought her apartment was being burglarized, the official said. Guyger pulled her gun and fired twice.
When she turned on the lights, she realized she was in the wrong apartment. Jean, who worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers, was shot once in the chest.
Authorities have said Guyger and Jean, a native of Saint Lucia in the Caribbean, did not know each other. Guyger, a nearly five-year veteran of the Police Department, had recently moved into the complex.
Guyger called 911 crying, the official said. She repeatedly said, “I thought it was my apartment” and apologized to Jean.
“I’m so sorry,” she can be heard saying on the recording of the 911 call, the official said. Police arrived within four minutes.
A video taken by someone at the apartment complex shows Guyger in the hallway crying and pacing with a phone to her ear.
The video shows paramedics rushing by with Jean on a stretcher as a paramedic kneels on top of him, performing chest compressions.
Jean, who is remembered as someone who “loved mankind,” was pronounced dead at Baylor University Medical Center.
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Amber Guyger appear at a pre-trial hearing in Dallas County.
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/1108510586701266945
https://twitter.com/byjenemily/status/1090649115204218880
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Damn right! Get that orange jumpsuit ready
https://twitter.com/KenKalthoffNBC5/status/1068525590783811585
Amber needs an early Christmas present.
https://twitter.com/KenKalthoffNBC5/status/1068523086381670402
https://twitter.com/AlexBoyerFox4/status/1068524050002063360
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I know darn well she didn’t say anything racial?
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/1044262909919068160
https://twitter.com/AliceBarrNBC5/status/1044259797258973185
GOOD! And now Amber needs to be convicted & JAILED!
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https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/1044259253043834880
Breaking………
https://twitter.com/CorySmithNBC5/status/1044253854559338496
.@DallasPD A killer cop was released in one hour after killing a man in his own home but Black non violent, unarmed protesters were kept in jail for 2 nights. See how they are when it comes to Black lives?
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I wonder how long it will take for the truth about what happened to come out.
SYMBOL?
They decided the door being ajar is best for the official fictitious narrative because the door would just simply open when she pushed against it with the key.
So Mr. Jean was silhouetting around his apartment in total darkness with his door slightly ajar when she arrived unexpectedly? How convenient for her.
Changing stories generally mean someone is lying.
https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1039524398955409408
Wait a minute. She had a dog? Every hour these revisions to her original story get worse. Normally at this point if she wasn’t a police officer wouldn’t the police be saying she can’t get her story straight? Black folk doing life on fewer “revisions” than in her story.
— BMLewis (@BMLewis2) September 11, 2018
There is no part of the cop’s story that I believe except that she shot and killed a man.
https://twitter.com/TommyNoel/status/1039351647636340736
https://twitter.com/TommyNoel/status/1039343038269550592
Hey, Chicas!
Mythe says he is the one that didnt want to indict Amber Guyger at all and was fighting with the DA.
Fake cowboy.
https://twitter.com/politicalteeth/status/1039368059440398336
Texas Ranger David Armstrong……………searched dead man, Botham Jean computer….
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/1039360968348901376
Video: “Mother of Botham Shem Jean speaks at vigil for her son”
https://youtu.be/sqeWxJm5A4k&rel=0
Stalker or intentional hit.
You – me right there: ( eye to eye.)
I just told a friend …I’m thinking if she wasn’t drunk or high on drugs that maybe this was a hit. Premeditated. j/s
Yep, this bitch needs to FRY.
https://youtu.be/Wtyi7vx8DPA
MURDER
MURDER
MURDER
MURDER 😠😠
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https://twitter.com/instapundit/status/1039326147887149057
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https://twitter.com/HowertonNews/status/1039285819561979904
Also seems to indicate she knew the residence was occupied and not her apartment which I believe to be true. SHE WAS NOT GOING TO HER APARTMENT. There was no MISTAKE.
Only question is why did she want this young man dead. And did she have accomplices.
https://twitter.com/newscat44/status/1039254832098562048
Lies all over the place….
First the door was locked and then unlocked, the room was dark, saw silhouette heading for her in dark apartment, he didn’t obey commands and then man swung open the door and she shot him.
https://twitter.com/BreeNewsome/status/1039300999641526274
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https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1039349755686596609
Look y’all. Texas Rangers searched the victim’s home. Why is the victim #BothamShemJean being investigated? The police officer #AmberGuyger was in his home and had no business being there.
https://twitter.com/HowertonNews/status/1039280502795104256
For the same reason they didn’t test the murderous adult who shot and killed a kid for no reason, but drug-tested the dead minor kid, Trayvon Martin, lying in a pool of his own blood on a residential street…
https://twitter.com/jdmiles11/status/1039169538972114946
I’m thinking if she wasn’t drunk or high on drugs that maybe this was a hit. Premeditated. j/s
https://twitter.com/jdmiles11/status/1039265745849470976
2 different stories. First story was the door was locked and now the story has changed to door was unlocked. Which is it?
https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1039230390282665986
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/1039225614421712896