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Hankison, who was fired three months after Taylor's death because of his reckless shooting, was the only officer to face state criminal charges in connection with the raid.
A federal judge dismissed felony charges Thursday against two former Louisville Metro Police Department detectives who worked on the search warrant in the deadly raid on Breonna Taylor’s home.
Kenneth Walker was Taylor's boyfriend, who was present with her in the apartment and fired the shot at what he said he thought were intruders. Jonathan Mattingly (now retired) was an LMPD police officer who joined the department in 2000, became a sergeant in 2009, and joined the narcotics division in 2016.
Breonna Taylor was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on June 5, 1993, to Tamika Palmer and Everette "Skeeter" Taylor. [6] [7] In 2008, she moved to Louisville, Kentucky, with her mother and younger sister, Ju'Niyah. [8] [9] Taylor attended Western High School, where she was an honor roll student who enjoyed mathematics. [8]
Hankison fired 10 shots the night of the deadly raid but did not strike anyone. His shots went into Taylor’s apartment and into a neighboring unit, where a child was sleeping.
He fired one shot, hitting officer Mattingly in the leg, and the officers fired 32 shots in return, killing Taylor. [1] For months after the shooting, there were demands from Taylor's family, the family's attorneys, members of the local community, and protesters worldwide that the officers involved in the shooting be fired and criminally charged.
Taylor’s boyfriend fired a single shot that hit one of the officers as they came through the door, and officers returned fire, striking Taylor in her hallway multiple times. The other 32 bullets ...
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