Botham Jean

The former Dallas police officer convicted in the murder of Botham Jean will head to court for her appeals hearing on Tuesday.

Amber Guyger’s defense team is asking the court of appeals to overturn her conviction imposed last year, citing insufficient evidence to prove she committed murder and instead asks that she be found guilty of criminally negligent homicide.

Brooklyn Artist Adrian Brandon is honoring Black lives that ended at the hands of police with a series of unfinished portraits. Brandon only colors his sketches for as many minutes as his subjects were alive, leaving partially-completed portraits that represent lives cut short. The subjects of his “Stolen” series include George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Botham Jean and 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones,...

As the tragic death of George Floyd brings the nation to a possible inflection point, take a moment to remember the small percentage of Black lives cut short. Each life was different, but in death nearly all share a tragic commonality.

The NFL has announced it plans to air a public service announcement featuring the family of Botham Jean during next month’s Super Bowl. The video highlights racial injustices and societal shortfalls that the family of Jean, who was murdered by former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger, said they believed need to be addressed in America. “I think for the...

Brandt Jean, the brother of murdered Dallas resident Botham Jean, will be honored with the 2019 Ethical Courage Award from the Institute for Law Enforcement Administration.

Three men will face murder charges in connection with the deadly shooting of a witness who testified in the murder trial of ex-Dallas police officer Amber Guyger, police say.

The judge who gave a hug and Bible to a former Dallas police officer after she was sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing her neighbor said Monday that she watched the woman change during her trial and wants her to live a purposeful life.

Judge Tammy Kemp, who hugged Amber Guyger and gave her a Bible after the conclusion of Guyger’s murder trial, is coming under scrutiny over whether she crossed an ethical line.

Brandt Jean, brother of Botham Jean, made a heartfelt speech of forgiveness after his brother’s murderer, former Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger, was sentenced to 10 years in jail.

Former Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger was found guilty of murdering her neighbor Botham Jean in his apartment.

Former Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger was found guilty of murdering her neighbor Botham Jean in his apartment.

A white former Dallas police officer who shot her black unarmed neighbor to death after, she said, mistaking his apartment for her own was convicted of murder Tuesday in a verdict that prompted tears of relief from his family and chants of “Black Lives Matter” from a crowd outside the courtroom. The same jury that found Amber Guyger guilty in...

A prosecutor on Monday dismissed as garbage a former Dallas police officer’s claim that she believed she was in her own apartment when she fatally shot a neighbor in his home. Assistant District Attorney Jason Fine used his closing argument to describe Amber Guyger as “an intruder” who killed Botham Jean in his apartment — one floor above hers —...

Day six of the Amber Guyger murder trial finds the jury back in the courtroom on Saturday as Judge Tammy Kemp attempts to keep the trial moving forward.

A Dallas police officer broke her silence Friday about the night she killed a young accountant who lived in the apartment right above hers, telling jurors that she has to live with the guilt every day and that she wished their roles were reversed. Amber Guyger tearfully told the packed courtroom at her murder trial that she was sorry for...

Prosecutors have rested their case in the murder trial of a white former Dallas police officer who fatally shot her unarmed black neighbor....
The state finished calling witnesses in Amber Guyger’s trial Thursday afternoon during the fourth day of testimony in the high-profile case over the killing of Botham Jean last September. Guyger’s defense attorneys are expected to begin calling witnesses...

Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger is now facing a murder charge in the shooting death of unarmed neighbor Botham Jean, court records show.

The family of a 26-year-old black man who was shot and killed in his own apartment by a white former Dallas police officer has filed a federal lawsuit.

The family of Botham Jean intends to file a federal lawsuit claiming excessive use of force.