Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – As of early Monday afternoon, the new address for the Dallas Police Department officially became 1400 S. Botham Jean Blvd.
East Lamar Street between I-30 and South-Central Expressway was officially renamed on Saturday.
From the Jack Evans Headquarters web page:
“The new Jack Evans Police Headquarters building was completed in March 2003. This new state-of-the-art headquarters is home to police administration, investigations, and a future museum of historical artifacts related to the Dallas Police Department. The location of the new headquarters is 1400 S. Botham Jean Blvd., Dallas, TX 75215.”
The 26-year old Jean was shot in his apartment in September 2018 when then off-duty police officer Amber Guyger entered his apartment thinking it was her own. He lived on a block just north of the DPD.
SPECIAL HONOR: A street renaming was unveiled in Dallas, Texas on Saturday for Botham Jean, an unarmed Black man who was fatally shot by a police officer in his apartment in 2018 after she said she mistook it for her own. https://t.co/2EYMrUzDli pic.twitter.com/XcCelwR25t
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