Former Dallas cop Guyger denied parole after serving half of murder sentence

The former Dallas police officer convicted in the 2018 shooting of a man in his own apartment has been denied parole, according to online records from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Amber Guyger was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2019 for killing 26-year-old Botham Shem Jean, a Black man she mistook for an intruder. The parole hearing was Guyger’s first, and comes halfway through her sentence.

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Fired Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger becomes emotional on the stand as the defense begins their case in her murder trial in the 204th District Court at the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas, Friday, Sept. 27, 2019. Guyger shot and killed Botham Jean, an unarmed 26-year-old neighbor in his own apartment last year. She told police she thought his apartment was her own and that he was an intruder. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News via AP, Pool) TOM FOX AP

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