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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Damning evidence in case of 26-year-old gunned down inside own apartment by cop claiming 'wrong apartment'

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

A Texas grand jury will be ask to decide if Dallas police officer Amber Guyger should be charged with murder in the shooting death of her upstairs neighbor, Botham Jean. Officer Guyger is already facing a manslaughter charge after admitting she fired the shots that killed the 26-year-old. Benjamin Crump, a civil rights lawyer who represent's Botham Jean's family, talks to Nancy Grace about the case. Also on the panel are private investigator Vincent Hill, North Carolina lawyer Kathleen Murphy, psychologists Caryn Stark and Lauren Howard, and syndicated radio host David Mack.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

0:07.0

The number one answer that I want is what happened.

0:16.0

I have asked too many questions and I have been told that there are no answers yet.

0:25.0

I am looking forward to all of the powers that be to come up with the answers,

0:33.0

to make me more satisfied that they are doing what is in the best interest of getting justice for both of them.

0:44.0

You are hearing the mother of both of Jane.

0:47.0

That's Alison Jane speaking through her pain as she searches for answers

0:53.0

as to why her son, a really shining star, a 26-year-old young man with his life before him,

1:01.0

had done great in school, had an awesome job, had a beautiful apartment that he kept neat as a pin.

1:08.0

He's at home reading in his apartment at night when a Dallas cop comes through the door.

1:18.0

He stands up and she guns him down dead.

1:23.0

The defense is, I hope you are sitting down, that she was in the wrong apartment.

1:31.0

I had a problem with that.

1:34.0

A lot of people are claiming, oh, it's a racial issue.

1:36.0

You know what? Maybe it is. I don't know that.

1:38.0

But my real problem, I don't care about the white, the black, the this, the that.

1:42.0

I care about how can a cop who's just come off duty, who we assume is going to be Stone Cold sober,

1:51.0

maybe even a little wired up from working, a beat on the street, still in uniform,

1:57.0

goes to the wrong apartment.

2:00.0

Doesn't notice a key fact about a bright red door mat.

2:07.0

His apartment has it, hers doesn't.

2:10.0

Can you notice that?

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