The gunshot residue is on the door frame and in the kitchen. He wasn't coming toward her, she was advancing toward him. The sequence of the apt layout is: entryway, kitchen, living room. She shot from the entryway leaving GSR on the door frame and hit the living room wall. She then advanced and shot at him again, leaving GSR in the kitchen. That shot killed him.
She had no reason to fear for her life. She wasn't trapped in the apt., she was in the entryway, free to back out into the hallway with her drawn and loaded gun.
I have read every page from the very first thread but this is my first post on this case. I hope the bold print in the quote comes through in my reply. Amber, who is definitely the killer of Botham Jean, was not trapped ! And at that point she was not on duty - is it correct that although she was still wearing a uniform, she was for all intents and purposes NOT an officer, not operating under the authority of DPD at that point in time?
She totally could've (and should've) backed out into the hall and called for backup if she thought an intruder was in her apartment - don't get me started on the bright red rug and the self-closing door being ajar. It's all stories in my own opinion - just the fact that the story changed from the intial version should make a jury ask why. The truth stays the same, it never changes.
Background for my post -
We had a breakin when we lived in Florida - it was 1989 but I remember it like it was yesterday. I came home from work, opened the garage door to drive in and saw a chair from the kitchen table sitting in the middle of the garage floor with a single swim fin beside it (neither of which were in the garage when I had left for work) - and our two mint-green racing bikes were missing from the ceiling hooks.
Obviously someone had been there and no way to know if they still WERE inside - so I didn't go inside. I parked the car on the driveway and immediately went to the next-door neighbor's house - he was a strong guy who then went to the neighbor's house on the other side and grabbed
that guy to go in with him to scope things out.
Those guys came out after looking the house over and finding nobody inside - saying "it's kids !" (as in, not professionals). All of the electronics were downstairs - nothing of value was obviously missing. Someone had made microwave pizza, bored some holes in the kitchen wall with a cordless screwdriver, stomped some Oreo cookies into the kitchen floor, ransacked some drawers upstairs - and stole some credit cards along with the bikes.
The police caught a couple of neighborhood kids in the woods that same afternoon while they were hiding the bikes - and one of them was wearing a pair of Tim's boardshorts and had one of the credit cards in the pocket. They had forced open a downstairs window to get inside - inexpensive new construction and we had only lived there for a few months.
So yeah - if you are Amber Guyger and you have an out, if you're not inside the apartment (and you supposedly have no way of knowing at that point if there is more than one intruder/assailant inside) - then wisdom would've been to just. . . not go in. But then there would still have been a noisemaker living overhead from her.
Yeah, I don't buy for one second that she feared for her life and had no choice but to use deadly force and kill him. There were so many other options. And the self-closing door would have locked her out of Botham Jean's apartment while she was pacing on the phone - so when exactly did she do CPR?
