Medical Examiner Testifies Botham Jean Was Likely Bent Over or on His Back When Amber Guyger Shot Hi

[sheshe2]

The Dallas County medical examiner who performed Botham Jean’s autopsy told jurors on Wednesday that the bullet that killed him entered in a “downward motion,” indicating that Jean’s body was positioned below former Dallas Police officer’s gun when she fatally shot him.

Dr. Chester Gwin could not say definitively where Guyger or Jean were positioned during the fatal confrontation, but when questioned by prosecutors, the doctor agreed the 26-year-old Jean was likely “bent over in some capacity or even on his back” when Guyger shot him, CNN writes:

[Dr. Gwin] testified the bullet entered above his left nipple and traveled downward through the chest, hit a rib and struck his lung and heart. It moved through the diaphragm, struck the stomach and intestines, stopping in a muscle in the abdominal cavity close to the spine...

Guyger claimed she mistakenly walked into Jean’s apartment, thinking it was her own, and shot him after mistaking him for an intruder. Her lawyers have argued that Jean was coming toward her, and the off-duty cop “had no choice” but to shoot him.

That rationale changes, of course, if Jean were already on his back or incapacitated.

https://www.theroot.com/medical-examiner-testifies-botham-jean-was-likely-bent-1838498730

If true, I hope she gets life.

[Downtown Hound]

1. I do not know what was going through Amber Guyger's mind when she shot Botham Jean

I just know that she's full of shit on a lot of what she's saying happened.

[MagickMuffin]

3. Apparently she was sexting with her partner boyfriend

She was hot and steamy ready for action, when she shot Botham Jean. How dare Bo interfere with her sexescapades.

[sheshe2]

5. I read she was distracted.

Heavy phone call with a coworker she was having an affair with. Talked about having sex and then going out for drinks. Yet she said she was exhausted after a 13 hour shift and that was why she was confused and parked on the wrong floor and entered the wrong apartment.

I agree. She is full of shit.

[Docreed2003]

2. Damn that's disturbing

Was he on the ground? Maybe she ordered him down and then shot him? Whatever happened she's not telling the whole story

[sheshe2]

6. That makes some sense.

She could have ordered him down then shot, Docreed.

[2naSalit]

9. Makes a lot of sense...nt

[marble falls]

4. True ot not, she needs to be jailed for significant time. If she weren't a cop ...

and had done the same thing, she'd be in jail by now.

[irisblue]

7. If the enterance wound was above his left nipple..

And finished in a spinal muscle below his diaphragm, it sounds as if he was rising from the couch.

[demtenjeep]

11. I thought maybe he was napping and heard the noise and started getting up to see the issue and then

she shot him

[Takket]

8. maybe he saw a gun and tried to duck?

[rainbow4321]

10. Blanket/pillows on couch, ice cream bowl on coffee table

Judging by the video of the scene and descriptions by crime scene inspectors, he was in T-shirt/shorts, sitting/laying on the couch, eating ice cream mixed with cookie crumbs, watching TV.

Just speculation on my part: he was engaged as listed above, heard/saw his door being opened, and as he was on the couch or bent forward to get off the couch, she killed him. One of the 2 bullets hit the wall (video showed the hole/measurements). Sadly, the other one entered him.

[customerserviceguy]

12. She's a cop

if she gets anything beyond a couple of months, she's dead.

I won't cry any tears if that happens.