Posted on 09/09/2018 8:47:09 PM PDT by CaptainK
The Dallas police officer who killed 26-year-old Botham Jean in his own apartment got inside because the door wasn’t locked, a law enforcement official said Sunday.
Officer Amber Guyger had just ended a 15-hour shift when she parked on the wrong level of the South Side Flats garage— the fourth floor instead of the third, where she lived, according to the official who has direct knowledge of the case but is not authorized to discuss it publicly.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings also said Sunday that Guyger parked on the wrong floor.
She went to the door she thought was hers but was one floor too high. The four floors of the South Side Flats in the Cedars look the same, with concrete floors and tan doors. A light fixture to the side of each door displays the apartment number.
Guyger, 30, was arrested Sunday on a manslaughter charge and was booked into the Kaufman County Jail. The Texas Rangers are investigating the case at the request of Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall. In the last year, juries have sentenced two police officers in Dallas County to prison time after convicting them of murder.
The night of the shooting, Guyger didn’t notice that Jean's door had a red doormat in front of it, the official said. Her entrance didn’t have one.
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Potential (but far from certain) sequence:
Guyger is impaired for whatever reason (extreme fatigue, meds, lack of meds, etc.), parks on wrong floor and goes to wrong apt.
Does not notice mat or apt. #, tries key - doesn’t work.
Then Guyger discovers door is very slightly ajar, becomes suspicious & takes it upon herself to investigate possible break-in of what she still thinks is her apartment. Draws gun & enters.
Victim appears, startling her (remember, she’s not firing on all cylinders) and she plugs him.
Yes, I know - there are many things in this scenario that “should not happen” because Guyger is “supposed to be a professional”.
I’ll also add — slight possibility Guyger has had trouble with a boyfriend, stalker, etc. The latter I include because in some of the pics she comes off as attractive: Fit, blonde, nice smile / moderately pretty face —at least as attractive as many other women who attract killer creeps (per my wife often watching “Dateline” and such). Anyway, such trouble would “enhance” a door she thinks is hers, ajar.
This is pure speculation, of course!
I was on temporary duty at a base in Turkey, and we had a guy in the group who actually had a real room (most of us lived in Tent-City). He was staying in the base hotel. At some point, he got drunk one night and attempted to break down the door of someone on the wrong floor (like in this case). That guy was calling the SPs, and they arrived within a minute or two. Long story short....our associate was put into Tent-City that night and lectured heavily.
Like you suggest, alcohol is probably involved.
So race-baiters are the answer??? Strange you are!!! They will turn this into a racial circus, Enjoy it!
Yep, this was no accident. An accident is when a cop is speeding in response to a call for help and runs over a pedestrian. Shooting an innocent opening the door of his own apartment is not an accident, it is a decisive act to take someone's life, a really bad decision on the cop's part but a murder did occur. Two shots confirm that.
My first ship sailed into Izmir, Turkey back in 1979.
Is that the city you were in?
Like I said in another thread. My friend used to live there. He said the apartments all have lit numbers next to the door, and the electronic door locks lock automatically.
Maybe not shooting and killing an unarmed innocent man in his own home is the answer.
Unless things change, and they may, this doesn't sound like an intentional murder.
She has been charged and a judge and jury will sort it out.
No, Incirlik. I’ve been through Izmir....really nice town.
Note to self: Get new mat that says “Hey Lady! This ain’t your apartment!”
If she wasn’t a cop, it would be very easy.
Mine too.Sure there are lots of aspects to this story, but I expect it to become yet another sad illustration of how bad things happen when people get very drunk.
Years ago my husband and I woke to our dog going nuts. A woman had walked into our house, her sister in law lived next door to us and she was picking up her kids. Our house and her sister-in-laws looked nothing alike, our yards looked nothing alike. She was distracted by something I guess but it was long before cell phones and other devices. My husband got up armed to go see what the commotion was, but he is a careful sort so no shooting. Small town, no one locked their doors back then either.
So who was yelling “open up” then?
I doubt that as she had just finished a twelve hour shift.
Probably a 12 hour shift of drinking.. Maybe she was high.
Sounds like she shot the guy who lives in the apt above her apt.
Ah then. Who could blame her. Nothing worse than living with footsteps thumping around over your head all day.
I’m thinking she probably wasn’t a detective.
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