Youth Pastor Botham Jean was shot to death in his own apartment over the weekend after a police officer reportedly mistook the home as hers. Jean, who was a youth pastor at Dallas West Church of Christ, was shot to death on Thursday by Dallas police officer Amber Guyer. Guyer has been charged with manslaughter. “Botham never saw color, he never saw race. Botham wanted all of us to unite, to be
together,” Jean’s mother, Allison Jean, told a vigil gathered at the church on Saturday. Jeremy Bonner told the crowd that Jean was like the great heroes of the Bible. According to the Dallas News, Jean, like John the Baptist, evangelized every day. Like Paul, he gave his friends spiritual guidance. And now, like Samson, he has become a martyr. “Your son was the spiritual tip of the spear … the epitome of ‘send me and I’ll go,’ ” Bonner told Allison. READ MORE
