‘Lock That Thug Up’: Ex-Texas Cop Who Killed Black Man While He Ate Dessert Thought She’d Get Away with Only 5 Years—Until Parole Board Shuts Her Down

Former Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger was denied parole on Oct. 10 for fatally shooting her neighbor, Botham Jean, in 2018 as he was sitting in his apartment eating ice cream. After advocating against her release, Alison Jean, Botham’s mother, is finally breathing a sigh of relief, but this won’t be the last battle in the fight to keep her son’s killer in prison. Supporters of the slain accountant will face this again when Guyger next becomes eligible for parole in 2026. At one point in the murder trial for ex-Dallas cop Amber Guyger, she was asked to demonstrate how she held the gun in shooting Black PwC associate Botham Jean Sept. 6, 2018. A jury convicted Guyger of murder Oct. 1. (Photo credit left to right: NBC News screenshot and Harding University via @xdom718 on Twitter) “My family feels a sense of relief having gone through the process and made a strong petition for denial,” Alison told CBS affiliate KTVT. “So news coming in that the board considered our petition is a sense of elation, a sense of relief.” “She needs to serve her entire 10-year term, which is well below a sentence that one receives for murder. Murder...