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Ex-Dallas Officer Charged With Murder Of Unarmed Black Neighbor

Amber Guyger is believed to be the second Dallas police officer charged with murder in the past 45 years. She faces up to life imprisonment if convicted.

The former white Dallas police officer who allegedly shot and killed her unarmed black neighbor in his apartment before saying she had entered it by mistake was indicted on a murder charge by a grand jury Friday.

Four-year police veteran Amber three days after the Sept. 6, slaying of Botham Shem Jean, 26, a native of the Caribbean island of St. Lucia and Dallas accountant.

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