Authorities say Botham Shem Jean was fatally shot by the unnamed Dallas officer as she was returning from her shift on Thursday and went into his apartment Officer Returning from Work Walks Into the Wrong Apartment and Then Kills the Man Inside: Police A Dallas police officer has been placed on administrative leave after fatally shooting a man Thursday night after she mistook his apartment for her own, PEOPLE confirms. A statement from the Dallas Police Department indicates the altercation occurred just before 10 p.m. as the officer — who has not been named — was returning from her full shift. Get push notifications with news, features and more. She was in her full uniform when she entered an apartment that she thought was her own, but was instead the home of 26-year-old Botham Shem Jean, according to authorities. The Dallas PD news release states that “at some point,” the officer shot Jean inside his apartment and then called the incident into police dispatch. • Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Click here to get breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases in the True Crime Newsletter. Jean was rushed to the nearest hospital where doctors unsuccessfully attempted to revive him. Police are continuing to investigate the shooting. However, several key details about what happened remain unclear, including: how the officer came to enter an apartment that was not hers, how close the residence is to her actual apartment, how she came to mistake one for the other or what happened in the moments leading up to her opening fire. It is also unclear if the officer knows Jean, who is a Saint Lucia native.<doc-sep>Chicago (AFP) - Protesters in Texas are demanding immediate jail for a Dallas police officer who entered the wrong apartment mistaking it for her own and shot dead the black man who lived there. The officer, who police have yet to identify and has been placed on leave pending official charges, will face criminal charges for the fatal shooting, officials said Friday. A racially-mixed crowd gathered near the crime scene for a candlelight vigil late Friday to honor the victim, identified as Botham Shem Jean, 26, an immigrant from the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia. "We are here to express our outrage, and we are here to demand accountability," said Imam Omar Suleiman, an activist at the event organized by the Dallas-based Mothers Against Police Brutality group. "If this was not an officer that pulled the trigger, this person would be in a jail cell tonight!" Suleiman said Mourners carried signs with slogans that read "Have a trial when police kill" and "Where is justice when police kill us?" Authorities are seeking to charge the officer with manslaughter. Dallas Police chief U. Renee Hall told a news conference that the shooting was "a very unique situation." "We have ceased handling (the incident) under our normal officer-involved shooting protocol," the chief said, adding that the officer's blood was being tested for drugs and alcohol. - 'Was in no wrong place' - The shooting took place late Thursday at the end of the officer's work shift. While still in uniform, she told authorities she mistakenly walked into Jean's apartment in an upscale complex near downtown Dallas. Police did not yet know what interaction occurred between Jean and the officer. After the officer shot Jean, she called emergency services and told responding officers that she had thought she had entered her own apartment. "Right now there are more questions than answers," Chief Hall said. Story continues Jean had graduated from a private Christian college in Arkansas in 2016 and had since been working at the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers in Dallas. "It just still feels like a nightmare," Jean's mother, Allison Jean, told NBC News. "I wish I would wake up and find that it wasn't true." Allison Jean -- who according to the St. Lucia Times has served for years in the island's government -- said the details of her son's shooting make no sense. Her son "was in no wrong place at any wrong time. He was in his sanctuary, in the place where he called home. He didn't deserve this," she told NBC. Jean's sister, Allisa Charles-Findley, said she needs "answers for my baby brother." "Just last week I was thinking of what to get you for your birthday," she wrote on Facebook, "now I have to go pick out your casket." Neighbor Alyssa Kinsey told The Dallas Morning News that Jean helped her move new furniture into her apartment soon after she moved into the building with her family in April. "I'll remember his smile," she said. "It just lit up a room."<doc-sep>
This image was removed due to legal reasons. A Dallas police officer got off her shift Thursday night, walked a block home, and entered an apartment that she believed was hers. It was not. She shot and killed the man who lived there, according to police. In an early morning press conference, Dallas Police Sgt. Warren Mitchell said that before 10 p.m., the yet-to-be-named officer called police dispatch to “say she had been involved in a shooting.” Mitchell said that she was still in uniform and had just gotten off of a “full shift.” Mitchell said that when additional police arrived at the scene, the officer told them that she had walked into the wrong apartment, and that “at some point, she pulled her weapon and shot the victim.” The victim was 26-year old Botham Shem Jean, NBC’s Dallas affiliate reported. Mitchell said that he was later pronounced dead at the hospital. During the press conference, Mitchell declined to comment on whether or not the officer thought the man was an intruder, and said that neither the officer nor anyone else who may have witnessed the shooting had been interviewed yet. In a statement, Dallas PD said that they were conducting a joint investigation with the district attorney, and that the officer had been placed on administrative leave while the investigation is ongoing. We’ve reached out to the Dallas Police Department to ask what a “full shift” means and how long the officer had been living at the apartment, and will update if and when we receive a response.