Ex-Dallas cop Amber Guyger leaves prison on parole after serving 7 years in killing of Botham Jean

DALLAS — Former Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger walked free from prison Friday morning after serving seven years behind bars for the murder of Botham Jean.

Guyger, 38, shot 26-year-old Jean inside his apartment in September 2018. He had been sitting on his couch eating ice cream when Guyger, who was off-duty but still in uniform, opened the door. She said she mistook Jean’s apartment for her own and believed he was a burglar. He lived on the fourth floor; she lived on the third.

She was convicted of murder and sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2019, but was granted parole earlier this month. Guyger was released after 10 a.m. from the Christina Melton Crain Unit in Gatesville. CBS reported live from the unit, but news cameras didn’t capture her release.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice officials said Guyger was released into community supervision.

Guyger was required to travel directly to her new residence and check in immediately with her parole officer, according to Texas parole requirements.

Guyger was denied parole in 2024 after the state parole board said she was not rehabilitated or ready for release.

—The Dallas Morning News

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs transferred out of NJ prison amid lavish lifestyle allegations

NEW YORK— Sean “Diddy” Combs has been moved out of New Jersey’s Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institution amid allegations he’d been living a life of luxury behind bars.

The disgraced music mogul is now being held at FCI Allenwood, a low-security prison in Pennsylvania, a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson confirmed to the New York Daily News.

NBC News was the first to report on the transfer.

“For privacy, safety, and security reasons, we do not discuss the conditions of confinement for any individual in our custody, including reasons for transfer,” the spokesperson said, declining further details.

A spokesman for Combs said his team has not been provided with “any information regarding the reasons for the move and don’t want to speculate.”

—New York Daily News

Iran boosts air defenses as it braces for fresh US attacks

Iran said it’s strengthened its military defenses against a potential resumption of U.S. strikes, the latest sign that the Islamic Republic is bracing for a return to all-out war as its tense standoff with Washington continues.

“Today, we possess a much higher level of defensive capability than during the war, and even before it began,” Army Spokesman Mohammad Akraminia said, according to the semi-official Iranian Students’ News Agency.

The army has repaired a “significant portion of the defensive equipment damaged during the war,” and “new equipment” has also been acquired to expand air defense coverage, Akraminia added.

The comments came after U.S. President Donald Trump declined to rule out using a weapon known as the “Mother of all Bombs” against Iran after midterm elections in an interview to Newsmax on Thursday.

They also underline a growing sense among Iranian officials that Trump will resume the bombing campaign he launched with Israel in February and later paused, as diplomatic talks over control of the Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s nuclear program appear deadlocked.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has taken part in joint drills with the army involving the new equipment, which he didn’t specify, as well as “combined and innovative operations,” Akraminia said, without elaborating.

The U.S.-Israeli strikes triggered a war and an energy crisis in the Persian Gulf after Iran retaliated by striking critical infrastructure in oil-rich Gulf Arab states that are allies of Washington.

—Bloomberg News

Ukraine civilian casualties surge as Russia intensifies strikes

Civilian casualties in Ukraine jumped by 85% in September as Russia increased drone and missile attacks, according to the United Nations.

At least 328 civilians were killed and 2,105 injured in attacks last month, U.N. human rights monitors said in their monthly report on Friday. It was the highest September total since the start of Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion, with missiles and drones the main cause of casualties, they said.

“The intensification of attacks by the Russian Federation across Ukraine in September continued a pattern of civilian casualties in 2026 far exceeding levels verified in previous years, with devastating consequences for civilians,” the monitoring mission said.

Russia has stepped up attacks on Ukrainian cities in recent weeks, striking energy and water infrastructure as well as logistics centers and residential districts, as Ukraine appeals to U.S. and European allies for help to strengthen its depleted air defenses.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week accused U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk of restraining access to SpaceX’s satellite technology that Kyiv uses to launch interceptors against Russian jet-powered drones. That followed a Russian attack involving 39 ballistic missiles and more than 120 attack drones targeting electricity plants.

—Bloomberg News