DALLAS — A white female off-duty police officer who killed an unarmed black man in his Dallas apartment last year in a shooting that heightened racial tensions goes on trial for murder Monday in a case that has angered, puzzled and captivated the city for months.
DALLAS — Botham Shem Jean posed no threat to the off-duty police officer who shot and killed him as he was watching television in his Dallas apartment last year, and in the final startled moments of his life, he had no chance to tell the officer she had entered the wrong apartment, a prosecutor told jurors Monday, the opening day of the officer’s murder trial.
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