Joshua Brown teared up as he testified last month in the murder trial of a former Dallas police officer convicted of shooting and killing their neighbor in his own home.

Brown, a key witness in the trial, lived across the hall from Botham Jean at Dallas’ South Side Flats apartments last year when officer Amber Guyger walked into Jean’s apartment, mistaking it for her own, and killed Jean.
What Joshua Brown said during his testimony in the Guyger murder trial
What Joshua Brown said during his testimony in the Guyger murder trial
Before his own death, Brown lived in constant fear of gun violence, Lee Merritt, an attorney for Brown’s family said.
That fear became reality Friday night, when Brown was shot and killed in the parking lot of his Dallas apartment, 10 days after he took the stand, according to the Dallas County medical examiner and Kimberlee Leach, spokesperson for Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot.
Authorities have not said whether there’s any connection between Brown’s death and his testimony in Guyger’s trial, which ended last week.