Former Dallas cop Amber Guyger, who was sentenced to 10 years behind bars for gunning down her neighbor by mistake, will be housed in the same lockup as the woman who killed Grammy Award winner Selena.
Amber Guyger, 31, will do her time at the maximum-security Mountain View Unit in Gatesville, Texas, about 130 miles from Dallas, corrections officials told ABC News.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Robert Hurst confirmed to CNN that Yolanda Saldivar — who was sentenced to life in 1995 in the shooting death of Selena Quintanilla-Perez — also is at the facility, which houses the state’s female death row.
During the intake process, new inmates have their mugshots and fingerprints taken, and go through a battery of tests to assess their medical and mental health, corrections official Jeremy Desel told ABC.
He said the prison also keeps an internal list of high-profile inmates who have generated a lot of media attention.
“But it doesn’t impact them in any way being on that list and it doesn’t really impact us in any way,” Desel said, adding that there are several prisoners in protective custody at the facility, which houses about 650 women.
Guyger was convicted of murder for fatally shooting 26-year-old neighbor Botham Jean at the South Side Flats complex in Dallas when she accidentally walked into his apartment on Sept. 6, 2018.
She testified at her trial that she thought Jean was an intruder who wanted to kill her.
During her sentencing hearing Thursday, Jean’s younger brother, Brandt Jean, 18, told the disgraced former cop that he forgave her and was granted permission by Judge Tammy Kemp to give her a hug.
Selena, 23, the so-called Queen of Tejano music who was portrayed by Jennifer Lopez in the 1997 biopic “Selena,” was killed in March 1995 while meeting with Saldivar at a Corpus Christi motel to discuss concerns that Saldivar had embezzled money from her.




