A former
Dallas police officer who was convicted of killing a Black man after she mistook his apartment for her own six years ago is now eligible for
parole.
Amber Guyger was still in uniform when she walked up to
Botham Jean’s apartment — which was on the fourth floor, directly above hers on the third — and found the door unlocked.
Jean, an accountant from the
Caribbean island nation of St. Lucia, had been eating a bowl of ice cream when Guyger entered his home and fatally shot him. He was unarmed.
Guyger was found guilty in 2019 and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
On Sunday, on what would have been Jean’s 33rd birthday, Guyger qualified for parole having served five years of her sentence, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Botham’s mother, Allison Jean, believes Guyger should serve her entire prison sentence.
“She’s caused my family tremendous, tremendous hurt, tremendous pain. She ought to remain where she is,” Jean said.
“She needs to serve her entire 10-year term, which is well below a sentence that one receives for murder. Murder of an innocent man in the comfort of his home, doing nothing wrong.”………
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