According to the New York Times, Louisville police had received a court-approved no-strike warrant to search the apartment for signs of drug trafficking while investigating Taylor`s ex-boyfriend, Jamarcus Glover. These orders were changed to “strike and announce” before the raid, the newspaper reports. Police involved said they complied with the warrant, but Walker said he did not hear such an announcement. Since the night police broke into Breonna Taylor`s apartment, her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, said he had not heard police announce his presence. When he fired in their direction, he says, he thought it was intruders who had burst in. Taylor`s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, who was with her, said he believed the plainclothes agents who broke in may have been Taylor`s ex-boyfriend. He shot once and wounded a police officer. Police then fired 32 shots, six of which hit Taylor. Walker was first charged with first-degree assault and attempted murder of a police officer. [62] [108] LMPD officers stated that they showed up before entering the house and were immediately hit by Walker with gunfire.
According to his testimony, Walker first unloaded his firearm and wounded an officer. Walker`s lawyer said Walker believed someone was entering the residence illegally and that Walker was only acting in self-defense. A 9-1-1 call, which was later made public, provided a recording of Walker telling the 911 operator, “Someone kicked the door and shot my girlfriend.” [109] Breonna`s friend said he then fired in self-defense. Three officers responded with 32 shots, six of which hit and killed them. Samuel Marcosson, a law professor at the University of Louisville, went on to explain that the state`s castle doctrine allows an owner to use lethal force to defend himself if the intruder is a civilian. But law enforcement agencies have more leeway under the doctrine as long as they have legally invaded the person`s home, Marcosson said in a phone interview Thursday. Taylor and her boyfriend Kenneth Walker, who had no criminal record, had slept in their beds. Walker, who later said he feared an intruder had broken in, used his legally possessed gun to fire a shot that wounded Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly in the leg.
Mattingly and officers Myles Cosgrove and Brett Hankison, all white and in civilian clothes, retaliated, firing indiscriminately 32 times in the dark and hitting Taylor six times. On the 13th. In March, three Louisville undercover officers, Myles Cosgrove, Brett Hankison and Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly, executed a warrant prohibiting knocking at the house where Taylor and Walker lived. Officials say Taylor`s ex-boyfriend sent drugs to the address. The 26-year-old paramedic was shot dead by police, who had issued a night arrest warrant to storm her home while she was sleeping with her boyfriend. Believing they were intruders, her boyfriend shot the police with a handgun he legally owned. The police responded by firing 22 bullets and killing Taylor with a bullet to the chest. Kenneth Walker, Breonna Taylor`s friend who allegedly opened fire on the officers who shot her dead, announced Tuesday that he was suing the city of Louisville, its police and others for immunity from his actions that night under Kentucky`s “stand your ground” law.
Instead, he supports Attorney General Daniel Cameron`s conclusion that the 9mm cartridge that severed Mattingly`s femoral artery came from the pistol fired by Kenneth Walker, Taylor`s friend. The footage also shows that grand juries were busy presenting the case by investigators, asking them questions about why police were not wearing body cameras and whether police knew during the raid that other officers had already found the central suspect in the investigation, Taylor`s ex-boyfriend. LOUISVILLE, Ky. Gun experts say a ballistic report from Kentucky state police shows Breonna Taylor`s friend fired the shot that wounded a Louisville officer and prompted police to retaliate, killing Taylor. Jamarcus Glover, Ms Taylor`s ex-boyfriend whose alleged packages drove police to her door that night, was arrested in possession of drugs on August 27, 2020, according to an indictment document. He told the Courier Journal that Ms Taylor was not involved in the drug trade. Jaynes has previously been fired by Louisville police for allegedly violating ministry guidelines during the preparation of the arrest warrant for Taylor`s home. Yvette Gentry, then acting executive director, wrote in a letter before the termination that Jaynes had “lied” when he wrote in the warrant application he verified by a U.S. postal inspector that Taylor was receiving packages related to her ex-boyfriend`s alleged drug activities. Goodlett knew that claim was false, prosecutors said, but did not contradict the information or alter it in the affidavit.
In fact, prosecutors say, she added a misleading paragraph saying investigators had “verified” recent reports that Taylor`s home was the current address of the person they believed was selling drugs — linking Taylor to her former boyfriend`s criminal activities. Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American, was born on September 13. March 2020, shot dead at her home in Louisville, Kentucky, when at least seven police officers forcibly entered the apartment as part of a drug trafficking investigation. [10] Three Officers from the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) – Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison and Myles Cosgrove – were involved in the shooting. Taylor`s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, was in the apartment with her when plainclothes officers knocked on the door and then forced in. [11] [12] The police said they advertised themselves as police officers before forcing in, but Walker said he heard no announcements, that he thought the officers were intruders, and that he fired a warning shot at them. [13] The shot hit Mattingly in the leg,[14] and officers fired 32 shots in return. [11] [15] [16] Walker was not injured, but Taylor, who was behind Walker, was hit by six bullets and died. [17] [11] [18] [19] [20] During the incident, Hankison moved to the side of the apartment and fired 10 bullets through a covered window and a glass door. [21] According to police, Taylor`s house was never searched. [13] [22] Kenneth Walker, Taylor`s friend, fired a shot with his legally possessed weapon and hit an officer in the leg.
He later said he did not know that the people who entered the apartment were law enforcement officers. Several police officers retaliated, killing Taylor. In a separate indictment, Hankison is accused of depriving Taylor, her boyfriend and their neighbors of their rights when he fired his gun “when there was no longer a legitimate target justifying the use of lethal force.” On October 22, a second grand jury criticized Cameron for the way the grand jury was conducted and how Cameron presented the grand jury`s conclusion. [33] [32] The jury agreed with the first juror`s testimony, including that the grand jury wanted to consider other charges against the police, including murder charges. [33] But “the panel was discouraged from considering morbidity and left in the dark during deliberations on self-defense laws.” [33] These statements contradict Cameron`s claims that the grand jury “agreed” that the officers who shot Taylor had the right to retaliate after Taylor`s friend shot him. The first grand jury said the panel “disagreed that certain actions were justified.” [32] Louisville police say they shot at Ms. Taylor`s home only after she was first shot dead by Mr. Walker, Ms. Taylor`s friend. Mr.
Walker was later charged with the attempted murder of a police officer, although the charges were dismissed in May 2020. Breonna Taylor`s boyfriend has been charged with attempted murder after shooting and injuring a police officer at her home. Prior to the execution of the warrant, prosecutors say Goodlett said the target of her drug sales investigation, previously identified as Taylor`s ex-boyfriend, received packages at Taylor`s address. Mr Hankison was accused of depriving Ms Taylor, her boyfriend and neighbours of their rights by inappropriately firing 10 bullets through a window and a sliding glass door covered with blinds. Wife. Taylor and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, were in bed but got up when they heard a loud knock on the door. Mr Walker said he and Ms Taylor both called and asked who was at the door. Mr Walker later told police he was concerned that it was Ms Taylor`s ex-boyfriend who was trying to break in.