Amanda Seelye testified that detectives knocked and announced themselves multiple times before breaking down the door. That has been disputed by neighbors of the apartment, according to Eggert. One of the three officers executing the warrant, Sgt. John Mattingly, was struck in the leg. He was later operated on and recovered. Walker in protection of himself and Ms. Taylor when the officers burst into the apartment. In late March, Stevens released Walker to home incarceration, a move that angered the police union and Chief Steve Conrad.
Yesterday, Nichols called for Councilwoman Jessica Green D-1 to apologize for comments she made Wednesday during a meeting of the Public Safety committee, which she chairs. She called for Wine to free Walker. I have been called pro police and I am pro police. She did not apologize. Toggle navigation. Mattingly, Hankison and Cosgrove returned fire, expending 32 rounds.
Walker's defense attorney, Rob Eggert, did not contest that the shooting occurred — an arrest citation for Walker says he gave police a sworn statement that night admitting he shot a firearm and was the only one in the apartment to do so — but has said it was self-defense. Walker said in a recorded police interview hours after Taylor's death that he and Taylor didn't know it was police knocking at the door.
That would have changed the "whole situation," he tells investigators. Walker's civil suit claims that he was interrogated by LMPD under false pretenses following the shooting, then wrongfully and illegally, arrested, detained, charged and prosecuted. Who was Breonna Taylor? What to know about the ER tech shot and killed by police. Taylor was not the main subject of the narcotics investigation that prompted LMPD officers to enter her home, records show, but they did have a search warrant for her and her apartment.
The warrant, signed by Jefferson Circuit Judge Mary Shaw the day before police entered the home after midnight, had a "no-knock" provision , meaning that police could enter Taylor's house without first identifying themselves as law enforcement.
Police were allowed to seek a "no-knock" entry if there is a reasonable suspicion that knocking would be dangerous, futile or inhibit the "effective investigation of the crime," LMPD's policies stated. Metro Council has since banned no-knock search warrants, and jurisdictions across the country are following suit. In this case, police have said it was necessary because "these drug traffickers have a history of attempting to destroy evidence, have cameras on the location that compromise detectives once an approach to the dwelling is made, and have a history of fleeing from law enforcement.
Taylor had no criminal convictions. Her name and address were included in the search warrant, records show, based on police's belief that one of the narcotics investigation's main suspects, Jamarcus Glover, used her home to receive mail, keep drugs or stash money earned from the sale of drugs.
Detective Joshua Jaynes wrote in an affidavit summarizing the investigation that led to the warrant that Glover was seen walking into Taylor's apartment one January afternoon and left with a "suspected USPS package in his right hand.
The detective also wrote that a white vehicle registered to Taylor was parked in front of a Elliott Ave. He also claimed that Glover used Taylor's apartment's address as his "current home address" as of February Jaynes was fired by LMPD in January, for violations of truthfulness and search warrant preparation policies.
Interim Chief Yvette Gentry said the warrant he prepared contained information that was " not only inaccurate; it was not truthful. Related: Calls grow for feds to step in as national anger builds over shooting. While attorneys for Walker and Taylor's family have repeatedly said, based in part on interviews with neighbors, that police did not identify themselves, the police department disputes that.
In Walker's arrest citation, police wrote that "detectives knocked multiple times and announced their presence in an attempt to get occupants to answer the door" before forcing it open.
And in a press conference following the shooting, police officials said officers knocked and identified themselves. A lawsuit filed by Taylor's family against the three officers in her apartment that night, however, says they entered the home "without announcing themselves. Walker and Ms. Taylor again heard a large bang on the door.
Again, when they inquired, there was no response that there was police outside. At this point, the door suddenly explodes," Eggert said in a motion. What to Know MCurley was a person of interest in the slaying but detectives said there wasn't enough evidence to tie him to the case 46 years ago. Texas company used a new forensic process to create a full DNA profile of the suspect from evidence pulled off the victim's clothing -- only partial profiles were obtained before.
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