Botham Jean was a 26-year-old Dallas accountant with dreams of one day returning to his home in St. Lucia and becoming prime minister. He was getting ready to watch a football game when Amber Guyger entered his apartment and shot and killed him. She told the police she thought the apartment was hers and she mistook him for a burglar.
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