The police officer in the Dallas apartment shooting previously shot a suspect

South Side Flats is shown in this Friday, Sept. 7, 2018 photo. A Dallas police officer returning home from work shot and killed a neighbor after she said she mistook his apartment for her own

(Image credit: Ryan Tarinelli/The Associated Press)

last updated 9 September 2018

The Dallas police officer who fatally shot a man Thursday after she mistakenly entered his apartment, thinking it her own, has been identified as Amber Guyger.

She has worked with the Dallas Police Department for four years and was involved in another shooting in May 2017. In that incident, Guyger shot a suspect she said was reaching for another officer's Taser during a struggle. He survived, and she wasn't charged.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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