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A Dallas grand jury reconvened on Friday and decided to charge Amber Guyger with murder for fatally shooting Botham Jean in his apartment complex in September. The jury decided there was enough evidence to the show the manslaughter charges Guyger was initially facing were not strong enough for shooting an innocent, unarmed Black man according News One.

If convicted, Guyger could spend the rest of her life in prison.

There has been a lot of criticism surrounding how this case is being handled and caused some warranted skepticism if the grand jury would indict Guyger.

Botham Jean was killed on Sept. 6, Guyger illegally entered his apartment and killed him. That was the only fact of the case we can assume to be true, with everything else going on the former police officer word.

News One reported:

She claimed that following a long day on the job as a Dallas police officer, she implausibly mistook his apartment for her own and, after ordering Jean not to move, shot him twice before realizing the error of her ways. Her story was greeted by doubt because of a number of factors, especially her assertion that Jean’s door was ajar. Videos posted on social media by neighbors appeared to show that apartment doors in the building shut automatically, which seemed to indicate that Guyger was lying. In addition to the inconsistencies in her alibis, which have changed several times, Dallas police, of which Guyger was a member for five years before being fired, appeared to be helping to cover up the shooting for their colleague. The department was accused of allowing Guyger enough time to scrub her social media accounts and get her story straight before turning herself in three days after killing Jean. It also gave Guyger enough time to move out of her apartment, which was never searched by police despite five warrants allowing them to do so. Guyger was ultimately arrested and charged with manslaughter, which many felt was insufficient considering the nature of the shooting. The charge, which was more than a month after the shooting, came after Dallas Police Chief U Renee Hall claimed she was “prohibited” from firing Guyger.

Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson, who was accused of bungling the case from the beginning. Johnson’s predecessor, former Dallas County DA Craig Watkins, told NewsOne recently that manslaughter charges may be easier to prove than murder and offered some words of caution for Creuzot, whose office will ultimately inherit the case after he’s inaugurated next year.

“It’s a precarious situation to make a statement that it should be a murder case without knowing the facts,” Watkins said.

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