Amber Guyger, the Dallas police officer who shot and killed her black neighbor inside his own apartment last September, has been found guilty of murder
Amber Guyger. Photo: Tom Fox/AP .
Guyger — who was originally charged with manslaughter but later indicted for murder by a grand jury — spent her weeklong trial attempting to convince the courtroom that her response was reasonable. Prosecutors emphasized that Jean was “never a threat” to her and called forth witnesses who testified that the bullet trajectory indicated he was either rising from a sitting position or “in a cowering position” when he was shot, according to the Times.
“God is good — trust him,” Allison Jean, Botham’s mother, said as she left the courtroom. Alongside her, Botham’s grandmother walked out with her fist in the air.
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