By Jamie Landers, Karen Brooks Harper, and Michael Cuviello
The Dallas Morning News
(TNS)
Amber Guyger, the former Dallas police officer convicted of murder for the fatal shooting of an unarmed Black man inside his apartment, will be released from prison next week, according to records from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Guyger, 38, is scheduled to be released Oct. 16 from the Christina Melton Crain Unit in Gatesville.
The former officer will have served seven years of the 10-year sentence she received in 2019 for killing PwC accountant Botham Jean in his Cedars apartment. Guyger, who was off-duty but still in uniform, said she mistook Jean’s apartment for her own and believed he was a burglar.
Jean lived on the fourth floor; Guyger lived on the third.
Guyger was granted parole on Thursday. The decision sparked a new wave of emotion from the Jean family.
“The past eight years have been an incredibly traumatic and painful experience for Botham Jean’s family,” the family said in an official statement released Friday. “The loss of Botham has left our family forever dismembered, and that is something we continue to live with every day.”
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Guyger’s parole conditions were not released but her trial attorney, who no longer represents her, told The Dallas Morning News last week that she has a job that will keep her out of the public life and a living arrangement that will stay private.
“She’s hopeful, optimistic, tremendously remorseful,” attorney Robert Rogers said. “That’s probably something she’ll always live with.”
Jean’s killing drew widespread attention, sparked protests, and led Texas lawmakers to pass the Botham Jean Act, also known as Bo’s Law, to require officers to keep their body cameras on for the entirety of their participation in an investigation.
That same year, Dallas renamed part of South Lamar Street for Jean.
A spokesperson for the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles last week said Guyger’s request for parole was granted after a review found her record showed no documented pattern of violence, that she maintained a “satisfactory institutional adjustment” and that she completed a treatment plan that “should enhance” her chances of obtaining—and keeping—a full-time job. She was previously denied parole in 2024.
Attorneys Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci, who were involved in a federal civil suit on behalf of the family that resulted in a nearly $100 million judgement against Guyger, said in a joint statement Thursday that freeing her after just seven years in prison “reopens a wound the Jean family has carried since 2018.”
“Botham Jean was an innocent man whose life was tragically taken in his own home. His family has been left to endure a lifetime of grief, and this decision only deepens the pain of a loss that can never be undone,” the statement said. “We cannot ignore the troubling message this sends about accountability when a law enforcement officer takes an innocent life.”
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