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    Amber Guyger, Ex-Officer Who Killed Man In His Apartment, Given 10 Years In Prison

    Guyger fatally shot 26-year-old Botham Jean thinking he was an intruder in her own apartment last year. Jean, who was black and unarmed, was shot while watching TV and eating a bowl of ice cream.
    by Bobby Allyn Oct 02, 2019 3 minutes

    Updated at 9:26 p.m. ET

    Amber Guyger, a former Dallas police officer who killed her unarmed black neighbor after stepping into his apartment and mistaking it for her own, has been sentenced to 10 years in state prison by the same jury that convicted her of murder.

    "Your sentence will begin today," Judge Tammy Kemp told Guyger.

    Guyger, who is white, fatally shot 26-year-old Botham Jean, an accountant from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, who was watching television and eating a bowl of ice cream last year when Guyger fired two

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