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Key Witness in Botham Jean/Amber Guyger Case Murdered
Joshua Brown, the across-the-hall neighbor and key witness in the murder of Botham Jean by a Dallas, Texas police officer, was himself murdered on Friday night, October 4, 2019.
Former officer Amber Guyger fatally shot Jean last year when she mistakenly entered his apartment thinking that it was her own. She was convicted of murder last week and sentenced the next day by the same jury that convicted her. They gave her ten years in prison with the possibility of parole in five.
According to Attorney Lee Merritt, one of the attorneys for the Botham family, and who spoke with Brown’s mother, Brown was shot to death in the very same parking lot of the very same apartment complex where Botham was killed. Brown’s mother confirmed her son’s death to Merritt.
According to CNN, on Friday night at about 10:30 p.m., Dallas police were flagged down by witnesses who directed them to Brown. The police found Brown lying on the ground in the parking lot suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital and there pronounced dead, according to Dallas police.
Witnesses reported hearing several gunshots and saw a silver four-door sedan “burn rubber” as it sped out of the parking lot, police said.
