Updated: 3:05 PM EST Mar 8, 2021 A Jefferson County Circuit Court judge dismissed charges against Kenneth Walker with prejudice on Monday morning, meaning the charges can t be brought up again. Kenneth Walker is accused of shooting an officer when police busted down Breonna Taylor s apartment door during a drug raid almost a year ago. He was charged with assault and attempted murder of a police officer after he opened fire during the raid, wounding Louisville Metro police Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly in the leg. Taylor was shot multiple times and died in the hallway.There was no body camera footage of the incident.Walker spent a couple weeks in jail before being released to home incarceration.The charges against Walker were dropped the following May, but without prejudice, meaning they could be refiled if new information came to light.Then, Commonwealth s Attorney Tom Wine said he believed more should have been presented to the grand jury.Back in September, Walker and his att
Updated: 2:06 PM PST, December 14, 2020
Tyler Perry, 51, made the donation in four separate transactions over the weekend on the GoFundMe page, which was created on Kenneth Walker’s behalf ahead of his upcoming legal battle against Louisville Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly.
Media mogul Tyler Perry has donated $100,000 to the legal defense fund of Kenneth Walker, the boyfriend of slain EMT Breonna Taylor, a source close to the entertainer confirmed to Inside Edition Digital.
Perry, 51, made the donation in four separate installments over the weekend on a GoFundMe page created to help Walker in his upcoming legal battle against Louisville Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly, the Daily Mail was the first to report.
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Tyler Perry donated a total of $100,000 to the GoFundMe page to support Kenneth Walker.
PEOPLE confirms Perry, 51, helped Walker and his legal team exceed their goal of $100,000 by making two donations of $10,000 as well as $50,000 and $30,000 contributions. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow
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Walker is the boyfriend of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old Black woman who was killed after officers executed a no-knock search warrant at her apartment. The shooting took place while police were executing a search warrant for an investigation into a suspected drug dealer, who police alleged had once retrieved a package at Taylor s home. But the suspected drug dealer didn t live at Taylor s apartment and had, in fact, just been ar