Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was sentenced to serve 10 years in prison for the fatal 2018 killing of Botham Jean, the innocent man she shot when she wrongfully entered his apartment.
via ABC:
The Dallas County jury reached a unanimous decision on the sentence just before 4 p.m. Central Standard Time, after deliberating for about 90 minutes.
Earlier in the day, the panel heard tearful victim impact statements from family members and friends of the victim, Botham Jean, and Guyger’s relatives and former colleagues in the Dallas Police Department.
The sentencing phase came a day after the jury rejected Guyger’s self-defense claims and convicted her of murder in the fatal shooting of Jean, 26, an innocent man eating ice cream in his own home just before he was killed on Sept. 6, 2018.
The 12-member jury reached its unanimous guilty verdict after deliberating for less than two days.
She should’ve gotten life.
