Dallas City Council to consider renaming part of South Lamar Street after Botham Jean
The 26-year-old accountant was killed in his apartment in 2018 by a police officer who was his neighbor.
The section of Lamar Street that will be renamed Botham Jean Boulevard will run between Interstate 30 to South Central Expressway, and will include the South Side Flats apartments, where Botham Jean lived.(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)
When Chris Norman started an online petition to rename the street where Botham Jean lived and died, the Dallas native wanted people to remember Jean in a way that was impossible to ignore.