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While the family of Botham Jean has managed some small steps towards justice after former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger took the 26-year-old’s life, a civil lawsuit that was launched won’t go forward. A federal judge ruled out the civil lawsuit filed by the family, citing that the city was not responsible for Jean’s death. […]

Amber Guyger is taking the initial steps to appeal her murder conviction in the death of Botham Jean. An attorney for Guyger filed an intent to appeal her first-degree murder conviction earlier this month as well as her 10-year prison sentence. The appeal comes two weeks after she was found guilty in the September 2018 […]

A witness who testified in Amber Guyger‘s murder trial last week was shot and killed Friday evening at an apartment complex near the Medical District in Dallas. Joshua Brown, 28, a neighbor of Botham Jean and Guyger at the South Side Flats apartments, was killed around 10:30 p.m. Brown lived across the hall from Jean and […]

Amber Guyger, the former Dallas police officer who murdered Botham Jean in cold blood, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, prompting many observers to say she got off lightly considering the impact of her crime. In court, Jean’s brother made an emotional statement in front of Guyger and granted her forgiveness, which has Twitter […]

An ex-Dallas police officer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the murder of an unarmed black man in his apartment. Amber Guyger was found guilty of murder on Tuesday in the September 2018 killing of Botham Jean. Jean was sitting in his apartment eating ice cream when Guyger broke in, mistaking the apartment […]

A jury has convicted former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger of murder in the 2018 shooting death of Botham Jean. Guyger was found guilty on Tuesday after two days of deliberations by the jury. She was off-duty but still in her uniform when she broke into Jean’s apartment on September 6, 2018, thinking it was hers. She […]

Judge Tammy Kemp, who is presiding over Amber Guyger's murder trial for killing Botham Jean, suggested a fair jury can be selected in Dallas despite heavy publicity.

Join Our Text Club To Get The Latest Music, Entertainment, Contests And Breaking News On Your Phone. Text VIP to 71007 to join! A grand jury has formally indicted Amber Guyger on murder charges in the shooting death of Botham Jean this past September. WFAA in Dallas reports that the grand jury concluded that Guyger need be […]

Faith Johnson, a Black woman who was a Republican, was voted out.

Officials in Dallas were intentionally withholding the 911 call former police officer Amber Guyger made after she shot and killed Botham Jean in his own apartment last month.

Nearly one month after Amber Guyger shot and killed Botham Jean, the Dallas Police Department has fired Guyger. Guyger was fired on Monday, weeks after she shot and killed 26-year-old Jean inside his apartment on September 6th. Court records say that Guyger said she believed she had encountered a burglar inside her own home. However, […]

It is unclear what laws prohibit Police Chief Renee Hall from firing Amber Guyger.