Florida Shooters Network

Tenzing_Norgay wrote: ↑Sun Sep 09, 2018 4:00 pm Had this happened in FL:

Woman enters (wrong) apt., crawls into bed with "husband" who is already asleep. She wakes him up, has sex with him, then shoots him afterward when he lights a cigarette ("I knew my husband didn't smoke!").

A Dallas police officer who allegedly entered an apartment that she believed was her own and fatally shot the resident was arrested Sunday for investigation of manslaughter.

Amber Guyger, 30, a four-year veteran with the Dallas Police Department, allegedly went into the wrong apartment in her building last Thursday night and fatally shot Botham Shem Jean, a 26-year-old native of the Caribbean island of St. Lucia.

Guyger, of Dallas, was arrested in Kaufman County and booked into the Kaufman County Jail, the Texas Rangers said in a statement.

Guyger was released Sunday night on $300,000 bail, NBC Dallas-Fort Worth reported.

The shooting just before 10 p.m. local time (11 p.m. ET) at the South Side Flats, an upscale apartment building south of Dallas’ downtown, occurred when Guyger was off-duty, police said.

Police said in a statement Friday that the officer “returned to what she believed to be her apartment after her shift ended,” and that “she was still in uniform when she encountered Mr. Botham Shem Jean inside the apartment.”

Police said it wasn’t clear what interaction occurred between the officer and the victim, but at one point the officer fired her weapon and struck Jean. The officer then called 911, and firefighters transported Jean to a hospital where he died.

Jean attended Harding University, a private Christian institution in Arkansas, and he belonged to the Good News Singers and the campus ministry. He worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers as an associate in its risk assurance department, the company said.

Slartibartfast wrote: ↑Mon Sep 10, 2018 11:29 am actually it was manslaughter (not sure of the difference)

N4KVE wrote: ↑Mon Sep 10, 2018 11:48 am

• A criminal homicide is charged as manslaughter when a person "recklessly causes the death of another individual," according to the Texas penal code. The charge is a second-degree felony, punishable by two to 20 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine. A prosecutor does not have to prove intent or premeditation to earn a manslaughter conviction.

• Manslaughter is a lesser charge than murder, which is a first-degree felony. According to the penal code, murder is committed when a person "intentionally or knowingly causes the death of an individual," or "intends to cause serious bodily injury and commits and act clearly dangerous to human life that causes the death of an individual."

• Manslaughter is a stiffer charge than criminally negligent homicide, a state jail felony that is committed when a person "causes the death of an individual by criminal negligence," according to the penal code.

Firemedic2000 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 10, 2018 9:12 pm To not notice that the furniture was not hers.

Tenzing_Norgay wrote: ↑Mon Sep 10, 2018 11:05 pm

Firemedic2000 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 10, 2018 9:12 pm To not notice that the furniture was not hers.

Affidavit indicates lights were off. She noticed a figure moving inside the apartment. Victim "did not follow verbal commands". Officer fired.

She claims she turned the lights on AFTER the shooting and realized something wasn't right. The (very dim) lightbulb in her head went on when she stepped out in the hallway to look at the address for 9-1-1.

That being said, I did the same thing once. Stepped off the elevator (one floor too early) and tried my key in the door of the (wrong) apartment. Key wouldn't work...I thought the werewife changed the locks! About the same time I started to get pissed, I looked up and saw the Apt. #.

Luckily no-one was home and I didn't get shot through the door.