Murder of Botham Jean

On the night of September 6, 2018, 26-year-old accountant Botham Jean was murdered in Dallas, Texas, by off-duty Dallas Police Department patrol officer Amber Guyger, who entered Jean's apartment and fatally shot him. Guyger, who said that she had entered Jean's apartment believing it was her own and believed Jean to be a burglar, was initially charged with manslaughter. The absence of a murder charge led to protests and accusations of racial bias because Jean—an unarmed black man—was killed in his own home by a white off-duty officer who had apparently disregarded police protocols. On November 30, 2018, Guyger was indicted for murder. In October 2019, she was found guilty of murder and was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. The ruling was upheld on appeal twice in 2021. In October 2024, Guyger was denied parole, and that November, she was found liable in a wrongful death lawsuit for killing Jean and was ordered to pay Jean's family $98.65 million.