'I'm so sorry...I never wanted to take an innocent person's life.' Amber Guyger, ex-Dallas police officer accused of killing unarmed man in his apartment, breaks down in tears on the stand as she recounts the night's tragic events.
The former Dallas police officer accused of killing an unarmed man in his apartment took the stand in her own defense on Friday, overcome with emotion as she was instructed to tell the jurors what happened when she opened the apartment door.Guyger, who is white, walked into the apartment belonging to Botham Jean, who was black, on Sept. 6, 2018, allegedly believing it was hers.
Guyger testified Friday that the night of the shooting she was tired from a long day at work and mistakenly parked on the wrong floor. She said the parking floors at her apartment building were not clearly marked. Jean, an accountant for the international auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, was sitting on his couch when Guyger opened the door, prosecutors said.
Guyger reenacted the next moment for the jurors, holding her right hand out as if she was holding a gun. Her attorney asked why she fired, and Guyger replied,"I was scared he was gonna kill me.""I had no idea where I was at," she testified, so she went outside to look at the apartment door. Guyger admitted to trying to perform a"little CPR," but she said she kept getting up to figure out where she was and tell 911. Guyger also admitted to stopping CPR to text her police partner and lover to come help. Guyger said she did not have any blood on her uniform or shoes.
"In the last 10 minutes of Bo's life, Amber Guyger made a series of unreasonable errors, and unreasonable decisions, and unreasonable choices," Hermus said.
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