BY ABC News Radio | May 9, 2021
Courtesy Tamika Palmer
(LOUISVILLE, Ky.) â Newly released documents from an internal probe into the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor shows two investigators determined that none of the officers involved in serving a 2020 narcotics warrant at the 26-year-old’s apartment should have fired their gun, but the findings were contradicted by senior officials in the Louisville Metro Police Department, according to a new report from two investigators.
Sgt. Andrew Meyer of the police department’s Professional Standards Unit determined in a preliminary report dated Dec. 4 that the three officers involved in the March 13, 2020, shooting should have held their fire after Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, shot one of them, according to the documents obtained by ABC News.
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Officer involved in Breonna Taylor shooting speaks out
Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, one of the officers who burst through her apartment in Louisville, speaks to ABC News for the first time publicly about that fateful night. Courtesy Tamika Palmer
Newly released documents from an internal probe into the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor shows two investigators determined that none of the officers involved in serving a 2020 narcotics warrant at the 26-year-old s apartment should have fired their gun, but the findings were contradicted by senior officials in the Louisville Metro Police Department, according to a new report from two investigators.
Gannett s Louisville Courier Journal and ABC News "20/20" today received a nomination for a prestigious Peabody Award for outstanding work on the joint investigative documentary “Say Her Name: Breonna Taylor.”