Updated Oct. 4: with the Dallas County district attorney's office seeking to withhold Botham Jean's autopsy report.

The city of Dallas refuses to release a recording of the 911 call that Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger made after she fatally shot Botham Jean in his apartment last month.

Botham Jean was shot in his apartment at the South Side Flats. (Harding University)

An attorney for the city said in a letter dated Monday that the Police Department and Dallas County district attorney's office are asking Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to allow them to withhold the 911 recording, which has been requested by The Dallas Morning News.

Assistant City Attorney Pavala Armstrong wrote that releasing the information would interfere with the investigation into the Sept. 6 shooting.

The News is asking for the recording to give the public a better understanding of what happened that night at the South Side Flats apartments, blocks away from police headquarters.

Some police departments release recordings of 911 calls soon after they are made. The Dallas County district attorney's office in recent years has sought to prevent their release, saying it would compromise investigations.

First Assistant District Attorney Mike Snipes said Tuesday that the office hoped holding back information such as the 911 calls would cut back on pre-trial publicity. Snipes, the top prosecutor under District Attorney Faith Johnson, said the office wants to try the case in Dallas and not have a judge move it elsewhere in the state on grounds that jurors here have already made up their minds.

Jean's death has been international news in the weeks since his death.

Guyger, 30, was off duty but in uniform when she shot the 26-year-old. She said she mistook his apartment in their building in the Cedars neighborhood for her own and thought he was a burglar.

Botham Jean's mother, Allison Jean, (in car) was greeted Sept. 24 as she prepared to bury her son after his funeral at Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Castries, St. Lucia. (Vernon Bryant / Staff Photographer)

In the days after the shooting, a law enforcement official told The News that Guyger had called 911 in tears just after the shooting.

"I thought it was my apartment," she said repeatedly, and apologized to Jean, according to the official. "I'm so sorry."

Police arrived within four minutes of her call, and paramedics rushed Jean to Baylor University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

Three days later, Guyger was arrested on a manslaughter charge. Police Chief U. Renee Hall fired Guyger on Sept. 24.

Amber Guyger (Kaufman County Jail)

On Thursday, the assistant district attorney Ashley Fourt emailed The News saying the district attorney's office is also seeking to withhold the results of Jean's autopsy. The county used to regularly release autopsy reports, which are public record. But the DA's office is more frequently seeking the attorney general's approval not to release the documents, saying the release of the report could hinder the investigation.

Other records that police and prosecutors refuse to release include: Guyger's personnel file, records related to her shooting of a man she said took her Taser during a struggle in 2017, Guyger's clock-in and clock-out times the day of the shooting, Guyger's annual salary, previous administrative leave with the department, other 911 calls about the shooting, Guyger's work schedule, body camera and dash camera videos, and any off-duty jobs she was approved to work.

The city cited a variety of other reasons for withholding the information, including that the release of some items would represent "an unwanted invasion of personal privacy" and would be "highly intimate or embarrassing and of no legitimate concern to the public."

The News is also seeking drug and alcohol test results from blood taken from Guyger the night of the shooting. Such records are typically not released to the public. They could be part of any criminal or civil court proceeding. Jean's autopsy report is also still pending.

Jean, an accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, lived on the fourth floor in apartment 1478 of the South Side Flats. Guyger, an officer for four years, was his immediate downstairs neighbor.

1 / 4Three weeks after Botham Shem Jean was slain by Dallas Officer Amber Guyger in his Dallas apartment, he was buried in Castries, St. Lucia, on Sept. 24. Flowers and a tent covered his grave the following day.(Vernon Bryant / Staff Photographer) 2 / 4Allison (hidden) and Bertrum Jean hug as they surrounded by family and friends as their son Botham Shem Jean is buried at Choc Cemetery in Castries, St. Lucia Sept. 24, 2018. Jean was shot and killed in his apartment by off duty Dallas police officer Amber Guyger. Guyger was fired the same day Jean was buried in the cemetery overlooking the Caribbean Sea.(Vernon Bryant / Staff Photographer) 3 / 4 4 / 4Frederick Douglass Haynes III talks to the crowd at Dallas police headquarters during a protest over the shooting of Botham Shem Jean. Jean's family in St. Lucia asked that protesters keep marching but keep the gatherings peaceful because that is what Jean would have wanted.(Shaban Athuman / Staff Photographer)

Guyger told police the door to Jean's apartment was unlocked and ajar. His family says he would have locked his door.

They also question Guyger's version of events, including that she mistakenly went to the wrong apartment.

Jean was a native of the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. He was buried in his home country Sept. 24 in a cemetery that overlooks the sea.