Lawyer: Arrest officer who killed man at home

Texas Rangers, who have another man, Uvaldo Perez, taken over the investigation, on May 12, 2017, while she asked her department to hold was on duty.

DALLAS — The lawyer for off because they had learned According to an affidathe family of a man who was new information and wanted vit in the case filed against gunned down at his home to investigate further before Perez, police were looking by a Dallas police officer is a warrant was issued. for a suspect when Guyger calling for her to be arrested Police on Sunday morn- and another officer were and charged, saying the fact ing referred questions to the called to assist a third. Perez that she remains free days Rangers, who didn’t reply got out of a car and became after the shooting shows she’s to phone messages seeking combative with Guyger and receiving favorable treatcomment. another officer. A struggle ment. According to police, Guybegan and Guyger fired her

S. Lee Merritt, who is ger shot and killed Jean after Taser at Perez, who then representing the family of returning in uniform to the wrested it away from her. 26-year-old Botham Jean, South Side Flats, where they She then drew her gun and said Saturday that the family both had apartments, followfired, wounding Perez in the isn’t calling on the authoriing her shift. She reported abdomen. ties to jump to conclusions or the shooting to dispatchers Guyger was not charged to deny officer Amber Guyand she told officers who in the 2017 shooting. ger her right to due process. responded that she had misSgt. Mike Mata, who heads But Merritt, flanked by memtaken Jean’s apartment for Dallas’ largest police union, bers of the family and Moth- her own. the Dallas Police Associaers Against Police Brutality, Many questions remain tion, called Saturday for an said they want Guyger “to about what led Guyger to “open, transparent and full be treated like every other shoot Jean. Hall said the offi- investigation of the event, citizen, and where there is cer’s blood was drawn at the Dallas Morning News evidence that they’ve comthe scene so that it could reported. He described Jean mitted a crime, that there’s be tested for alcohol and as an “amazing individual” a warrant to be issued and drugs. Investigators haven’t and said that “if the grand an arrest to be made.” released the results of those jury deems necessary, this

Guyger, a four-year veteran tests. officer should have to answer of the police force, hadn’t Jean’s mother, Alli son for her actions in a court of been charged as of Sunday Jean, wondered whether law in Dallas County.” morning, according to city race could have been a facFriends and family gathof Dallas and Dallas County tor. Her son, who grew up in ered Saturday at the Dallas online records. The police the Caribbean island nation West Church of Christ to department released her of St. Lucia before attending remember Jean, who had name Saturday night, which college in Arkansas, is black. been working for accounting was two nights after she shot Guyger is white. firm PwC since graduating and killed Jean. “If it was a white man, in 2016 from Harding Uni

Police Chief U. Renee Hall would it have been differversity in Arkansas, where said the day after the shootent? Would she have reacted he often led campus reliing that her department differently?” Allison Jean gious services as a student. was seeking manslaughter said Friday. They described Jean as a charges against Guyger. But Jean wasn’t the first per- devout Christian and a talshe said Saturday that the son shot by Guyger. She shot ented singer.