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According to Deadline, entertainment mogul and philanthropist Tyler Perry has donated $100,000 to help with the legal defense of Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, who is being sued by one of the police officers involved in her killing.
Walker was in the apartment with Taylor when Louisville Metro Police Department police officers Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove, entered on a no-knock warrant and ended up shooting and killing Taylor. In the process, Mattingly was shot in the leg by Walker. In October, Mattingly filed a lawsuit suing Walker for assault, battery, and emotional distress.
Kenneth Walker.
According to multiple outlets, the media mogul broke up the large donation, which was made on GoFundMe, by making two donations of $10,000 as well as $50,000 and a final donation of $30,000.
The GoFundMe page, which was created on November 10 by
Jacob Romines, who is the son of Steve Romines, Kenneth s attorney in his suit against the Louisville Metro Police Department, states that donations will go towards Kenneth Walker’s legal expenses in his defense against Mattingly’s lawsuit and related litigation.
Tyler s large donations single-handedly allowed the page to surpass its $100,000 goal.
Kenneth is the boyfriend of
Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black emergency room technician and aspiring nurse, who was shot to death by Louisville police officers on March 13 after they broke down the door to her apartment while executing a no-knock warrant. Officers were executing a search warrant for an investigation into a suspected drug dealer, who police claim
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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