The fired Dallas police officer who fatally shot her black neighbor was found guilty of murder on Tuesday.
Amber Guyger, 31, was convicted in Dallas court in the killing of 26-year-old Botham Jean, whom she claims she mistook for an intruder when she entered his apartment instead of her own in September 2018.
The jury deliberated for less than a day before reaching the verdict in the case.
The ex-cop broke down as she took the stand Friday in the trial about the night that she gunned down her unarmed neighbor with her service weapon.
“I wish he had had the gun and had killed me,” a tearful Guyger testified. “I hate that I have to live with this every single day of my life. I’ve asked God for forgiveness.”
Prosecutors, however, have argued that it was “absurd” for Guyger to suggest that she didn’t know she was in the wrong apartment. They claim she was distracted by a phone conversation with her partner in the force — with whom she was having an affair.
“Most of what she said was garbage,” Dallas County Assistant District Attorney Jason Fine said Monday.
Guyger was arrested three days after Jean’s killing and fired from the force.
She faces up to 99 years in prison on the murder charge.
(Story Via New York Post)
