Love Thy Neighbor: Kill Thy Neighbor.

Man misidentified inside of his apartment shot and killed by a paranoid Dallas police officer.

On Thursday, September 06, 2018, a 26-year-old Dallas Texas accountant, a native of St. Lucia who worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers in Dallas Texas, Botham Shem Jean opened the door to his apartment after hearing someone rustling with the lock.

The would-be burglar, in this case, was not a common haphazard, random thief. Instead, it was Dallas police officer Amber Guyger.

Just last year in May, Guyger shot another man, Uvaldo Perez, according to police reports Guyger was assisting another officer searching for a man.

Guyger and her partner, who was not charged in the May 2017, shooting of Perez — shot Perez after he got out of his car and confronted the officers in an aggressive manner, at which time Guyger tased Perez.

Somehow, Perez managed to wrest the taser from Guyger, she then pulled her service weapon and shot Perez in the abdomen. He survived.

In the latest incident, according to the Dallas Police Department, Guyger had just finished a 12-hour shift and was returning home when she “mistakenly” went on the wrong floor of the complex — the floor above hers, which belonged to Jean.

She entered Jean’s apartment and shot him. She called for assistance, Police and EMS responded. Jean was transported to a nearby hospital, where he was allowed to die.

All hospital personnel knew was that Jean was a young black male victim of a police shooting and 10 to one they assumed he was a burglar.

After the incident, Dallas Police  Chief Renee Hall called on the Texas Rangers to investigate the killing.

On Sunday, September 09 the Texas Rangers announced that Guyger would be charged with manslaughter.

The four-year police veteran was arrested and released from the Kaufman County Jail after posting a $300,000 bond.

Jean, was a 2016 graduate of Harding University in Arkansas. He will be buried, on Thursday, in his native homeland of Saint Lucia.

In a Glenn Campbell song “Silhouette,” he sings of a jealous lover who went walking — one night, and after seeing the silhouettes of two lovers on a window shade, he went to beat down the door of what he thought was his lover’s — only to find out he was on the wrong block.

Staff Writer: Clinton Franklin