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A timeline of the Breonna Taylor case
Taylor, a licensed EMT, was fatally shot by police serving a search warrant of her Kentucky home on March 13, 2020. Lawrence Bryant/Reuters, FILE
Simon & Schuster said it will not distribute a forthcoming book from publishing house Post Hill Press written by one of the police officers who opened fire during the deadly raid of Breonna Taylor's home.
John Mattingly, who is set to author the book, was one of the three plainclothes police officers who barged into the home of Taylor on a no-knock warrant in March 2020. The officers unleashed a hail of gunfire during the botched drug raid and Taylor, who was asleep as they entered, died at the scene.