A white Texas police officer who entered an apartment mistaking it for her own and shot dead the black man who lived there was arrested on manslaughter charges.

Officer Amber Guyger with the Dallas Police Department was arrested Sunday and booked into the county jail, the Texas Department of Public Safety said.

At the end of her shift and still in uniform, Guyger entered the apartment in a complex near downtown Dallas late Thursday and shot the black man who she thought was an intruder, police said.

Minutes after shooting she called emergency services and told responding officers that she thought she had entered her own apartment.

The victim, an African-American, was identified as Botham Shem Jean, 26, an immigrant from the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia.

Jean had graduated from a private Christian college in the state of Arkansas in 2016 and had since been working at the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers in Dallas.

According to the Dallas Morning News, Guyger got off on the wrong floor of the building complex and approached an apartment exactly one floor above her own.

The door was unlocked and the lights were off and when Guyger saw a figure moving in the dark she pulled out her pistol and opened fire thinking it was an intruder, the newspaper reported.

Dallas police said that Guyger, 30, has been with the department for four years. Local reports said she was involved in an earlier shooting in May 2017.

The Dallas-Fort Worth NBC affiliate reported that Guyger was released late Sunday on a $300,000 bail.

Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall took the unusual step of handing the case over to the Texas Rangers — a division of the Department of Public Safety — to “eliminate the appearance of any potential bias”, police said in a statement.

“On behalf of the Dallas Police Department, we are continuing to pray for Mr. Jean’s family, and ask that the community remain patient as this investigation is conducted,” Hall said.

Hall, who is African-American, became the city’s first female police chief in September 2017.

Jean’s mother Allison Jean, earlier told NBC News that the incident “feels like a nightmare”.

Her son “was in no wrong place at any wrong time. He was in his sanctuary, in the place where he called home. He didn’t deserve this,” she told NBC.

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If the reverse was the case, the black man would have been given the death penalty.

Organized crime.

Oh my......What should we call this one now?

May the deceased soul rest in eternal peace!

She must av taken Codeine or Tramadoll... which Kain Lie be diz y u no go Sabi ur house why she no Go zoo make she go chill with Lion na dat time I go believe say she miss road...

Racism of the highest level.

Racist.... kill her too simple.

Racism....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWQRDwaHRfQ

Dallas Police Officer Fatally Shoots Man In His Own Apartment

She should be hanged. Was she drunk?

The whole story is yet to come out. I'm sure this is a crime of passion this lady thinks she can get out of it cause she's a cop. For those screaming racism , hush already. I have seen more black on black hate in Nigeria than white on black in America. Before you call someone racist look Your self in the mirror.

is she high! nawa o

It's hard to put this down to anything other than being trigger happy. Those playing the race card and saying that this is evidence of systematic racism are overlooking the fact that the Head of Police who is this woman's boss also happens to be a black woman as well. It's a tragedy and she's going to be well punished for her crime, but let's not make it into something that it isn't.

This is smtin I so much hate abou America. .

smone wud kill someone coz he/she is depressed
Kill coz u thought wrong
Kill bcoz someone broke ur heart
Kill coz u thought ts ws ur house e.t.c

and the culprit wud be allowed to go scout free by paying bail instead of suffering fr ur crimes or killed to

it's really so annoying what kinda justice operate there

What a waste of human life. American cops are always trigger-happy. Dia blood too dey hot. See how she just wasted the poor guy.

In America they suffer the police.

In Nija we suffer fulani herdsmen & Buhari with SARS.

Killed a man. Must we always play the race card

No matter what they will still be bias with the judgement cos she is a white woman and she killed a black cat...

Yankee SARs

The woman was high on coke. I know her very well, he was among the group who shot Jekins Gordon in the park while walking don't his dog in June.

There is More to this story walahi

All of una when won go america.death rate there is far higher than Nigeria oh

U say?

This should be well investigated.

Chai nothing dey pain pass make person go Yankee for better life then to come end up dying this kain yeye death. RIP to him