Who Was Breonna Taylor? Bio, Wiki, Murder, Police Report

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Breonna Taylor was an African-American woman, was fatally shot in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment on March 13, 2020, by the three white police officers Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove.

AGE:

Breonna Taylor was 26 years old.

DETAIL OF INCIDENT:

Taylor’s cousin, She was the light to our family,” and she was the bright young woman who became the face of a movement. Bianca Austin can’t stop thinking about the evening of March 12, 2020. Her niece, Breonna Taylor, had called to ask if she wanted to go out for dinner and drinks. Austin adored Taylor — she called her niece “Mini-Me” because they were so close and alike — but that night Austin, at the time a 38-year-old nursing student, was too tired to go out. Now, she would give anything to go back in time and accept Taylor’s invitation.

The Louisville Metro Police Department forced entry into the apartment as part of an investigation into drug dealing operations. Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, was inside the apartment with her when the plainclothes officers knocked on the door and then forced entry. The officers said that they announced themselves as police before forcing entry, but Walker said he did not hear any announcement, thought the officers were intruders and fired a warning shot at them. The shot hit Mattingly in the leg, and the officers fired 32 shots in return. Walker was unhurt but Taylor, who was behind Walker, was hit by six bullets and died. According to police, Taylor’s home was never searched.

Walker was charged with assault and attempted murder of a police officer, but the charges were dismissed with prejudice 12 months later. On June 23, 2020, the LMPD fired Hankison for blindly firing through the covered patio door and window of Taylor’s apartment. On September 15, the city of Louisville agreed to pay Taylor’s family $12 million and reform police practices. On September 23, a state grand jury indicted Hankison on three counts of wanton endangerment for endangering Taylor’s neighbors with his shots. On March 3, 2022, Hankison was acquitted. None of the officers involved in the raid have been charged with Taylor’s death. Cosgrove was determined to have fired the fatal shot that killed Taylor. On October 2, 2020, recordings from the grand jury investigation into the shooting were released. Two of the jurors released a statement saying that the grand jury was not presented with homicide charges against the officers. Several jurors have also accused Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron and the police of covering up what happened.

The shooting of Taylor by police officers led to numerous protests that added to those across the United States against police brutality and racism. When a grand jury did not indict the officers for her death, further civil unrest ensued.