State Attorney General Daniel Cameron later said investigators determined Cosgrove alone fired 16 shots, including the bullet that took Taylor’s life. Walker, reacting to what he believed was a break-in, fired a single shot that struck one officer in the leg, prompting all three officers to return fire, authorities said. She and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, were in bed when police launched the nighttime raid as part of a narcotics investigation.
The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office, serving a rural area of northern Kentucky about 50 miles (80 km) from Louisville, hired former police detective Myles Cosgrove last week as a deputy on its force, County Executive David Wilhoite said on Monday.Ĭosgrove was one of three white Louisville police officers involved in a botched “no-knock” raid on Taylor’s apartment in March 2020 in which Taylor, a Black a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was slain in a hail of gunfire. (Reuters) – The ex-cop who lost his job on the Louisville, Kentucky, police department after firing the gunshot that killed Breonna Taylor in her home, helping stoke mass protests against racial injustice in 2020, has returned to the ranks of law enforcement.
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