Former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison is charged with violating the civil rights of Taylor and her neighbors during the fatal raid in 2020.
Authorities in Louisville say Hankison fired five gunshots through a bedroom window and another five shots through a sliding-glass door. Investigators determined that the fatal shot that killed Taylor was probably fired by another detective, Myles Cosgrove.Cosgrove and John Mattingly, another former officer who also fired shots that struck Taylor, have not been charged in the case. Cosgrove was fired from the police department for his role in the raid; Mattingly retired in 2021.
Former detective Kelly Goodlett pleaded guilty in August 2022 to federal charges of falsifying a search warrant and trying to Taylor, 26, was killed in the early morning raid when plainclothes police officers burst into her apartment to carry out a search warrant in a drug probe. While the officers knocked, there is disagreement about whether they identified themselves as police.Kenneth Walker, Taylor’s boyfriend, fired a shot with his legally owned gun, striking Mattingly in the leg. Walker said he did not realize the people who had entered the apartment were law enforcement officers.
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