Amber Guyger Fired After Murdering Botham Jean, Charged With Manslaughter

Dallas Police Chief U Renee Hall terminated her employment during a hearing on Monday although she has the right to appeal.

Court records show Ms Guyger had just finished a 15-hour shift when she parked in the wrong garage before making what was apparently a tragic error.

She was booked into the Kaufman County Jail in Dallas, Texas, following the fatal shooting before being released on bail.

The 30-year-old - the sole female on an elite crime response team of 10 officers who make high-risk arrests - faces up to 20 years in prison if she is convicted of the manslaughter.

According to police, she told police dispatchers she had mistaken the accountant's apartment at South Side Flats for hers and believed he was an intruder.

The shooting victim's mother, Allison, has since suggested that her son might still be alive if he were white.

"I didn't know she was white until now. If it was a white man would it have been different? Would she have reacted differently?" she told KXAS.

Allison, who has held government posts in St. Lucia, where she lives and where her son grew up, said her son's death "just feels like a nightmare."

Jean's family have hired attorney Benjamin Crump, who is best known for representing the families of shooting victims Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.

Guyger, who has been with the force for four years, reportedly moved into the building in the last two months.

Jean wasn't the first person shot by Guyger - she shot another man, Uvaldo Perez, while on duty in May 2017 - although she was never charged.

Perez, 47, was hit once in the abdomen, but survived and was sentenced to two years on drugs charges.

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