Botham Jean honored with a scholarship in his name
The Botham Jean Memorial Scholarship Fund will keep this young Black mans legacy alive by honoring the Harding University graduate.
Botham Jean’s school is keeping his legacy alive by honoring the Harding University graduate with a scholarship in his name, THV11 reports.
The Botham Jean Memorial Scholarship Fund has been established in the name of Botham who was killed last year in Dallas by a white police officer who entered his apartment allegedly by mistake.
In November, Officer Amber Guyger was indicted and charged with murder. The St. Lucia native graduated from the university in 2016.
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The school on Tuesday announced the scholarship. University President Bruce McLarty says the memorial scholarship “is a perfect example of good coming from something evil and hope emerging from deep loss.”
The scholarship with help benefit students, primarily from the Caribbean, who endeavor to have a stellar college experience like Jean, officials said.
In January, the fired Dallas cop who shot and killed Jean in his apartment last year, made her first court appearance.
Flanked by her attorneys, Guyger appeared at the Dallas Criminal Courthouse, but State District Judge Tammy Kemp did not conduct a hearing in the courtroom for Guyger’s announcement setting. No word on what attorneys discussed during the appearance, The Dallas Morning News reported. Neither Guyger nor her attorneys commented as they left the hearing, obeying a judge’s order not to publicly discuss the case.
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The Backstory
Guyger told investigators that she had just ended a 15-hour shift when she returned in uniform to the South Side Flats apartment complex. She parked on the fourth floor, instead of the third, where she lived, according to the affidavit, possibly suggesting that she was confused or disoriented.
When she put her key in the apartment door, which was unlocked and slightly ajar, it opened, the affidavit said. Inside, the lights were off, and she saw a figure in the darkness that cast a large silhouette across the room, according to the officer’s account.
She claims she shot Jean, a 26-year-old accountant, thinking he was an intruder in her apartment.
A Texas grand jury indicted Guyger for murder in the shooting death of Jean in September. Jurors had the option to indict Guyger for murder or manslaughter or to decline an indictment all together.
