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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMedical Examiner Testifies Botham Jean Was Likely Bent Over or on His Back When Amber Guyger Shot Hi
The Dallas County medical examiner who performed Botham Jeans autopsy told jurors on Wednesday that the bullet that killed him entered in a downward motion, indicating that Jeans body was positioned below former Dallas Police officers 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 Jeans 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
(12,618 posts)I just know that she's full of shit on a lot of what she's saying happened.
MagickMuffin
(15,976 posts)She was hot and steamy ready for action, when she shot Botham Jean. How dare Bo interfere with her sexescapades.
sheshe2
(84,005 posts)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
(16,890 posts)Was he on the ground? Maybe she ordered him down and then shot him? Whatever happened she's not telling the whole story
sheshe2
(84,005 posts)She could have ordered him down then shot, Docreed.
2naSalit
(86,900 posts)marble falls
(57,427 posts)and had done the same thing, she'd be in jail by now.
irisblue
(33,047 posts)And finished in a spinal muscle below his diaphragm, it sounds as if he was rising from the couch.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)she shot him
Takket
(21,681 posts)rainbow4321
(9,974 posts)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
(25,183 posts)if she gets anything beyond a couple of months, she's dead.
I won't cry any tears if that happens.