DALLAS — Amber Guyger, the former Dallas police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man at his apartment in 2018, was released from a Texas prison on parole Friday.Guyger, 38, served seven years of the 10-year sentence handed down in October 2019 for the murder of Botham Jean.
She left the Christina Melton Crain Unit in Gatesville on Friday.She will spend the rest of her sentence in the community, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said.Robert L.
Rogers, one of Guyger’s attorneys during the trial, could not be reached for comment this week.He told WFAA-TV of Dallas this month that Guyger has a place to live and work upon her release.
“She’s been remorseful.She’s stayed remorseful.
She’s still remorseful,” Rogers told the station.Jean was watching television and eating ice cream in his living room the night of Sept.6, 2018, when Guyger entered, prosecutors said.A demonstrator holds a sign for Botham Jean in Revere, Mass., in 2020.Erin Clark / Boston Globe via GettyJean, 26, lived one floor above Guyger, who testified that she parked on the wrong floor and mistakenly entered his apartment instead of her own.
Guyger said that she tried to use her key but that the door pushed open.She said she shot Jean, who she believed was a burglar, out of fear for her life.Guyger, a four-year Dallas police veteran, was in uniform but off duty at the time.
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