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An autopsy was conducted on Taylor, and her cause of death was determined to be homicide. The death certificate also notes that she received five gunshot wounds to the body. The coroner denied The Courier-Journal ' s request for a copy of the autopsy. The newspaper was appealing to the attorney general's office as of July 17, 2020. [32]
Breonna Taylor was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on June 5, 1993, to Tamika Palmer and Everette "Skeeter" Taylor. [6] [7] In 2008, she moved to Louisville, Kentucky, with her mother and younger sister, Ju'Niyah. [8] [9] Taylor attended Western High School, where she was an honor roll student who enjoyed mathematics. [8]
U.S. District Judge Charles Simpson’s ruling declared that the actions of Taylor’s boyfriend, who fired a shot at police the night of the raid, were the legal cause of her death, not a bad ...
Now, three years after the raid that killed Taylor, a Black 26-year-old emergency room technician, the current and former LVMPD officers at the heart of the controversial operation are facing a ...
Breonna Taylor's death at the hands of Louisville Metro Police officers was a watershed moment for the city that sparked protests across the nation. Four years later, two U.S. legislators from ...
A protest against racism in Berlin, Germany, on June 6, 2020; demonstrators hold posters with the photos of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.. On June 1, 2020, David McAtee, a 53-year-old African-American man, was fatally shot by the Kentucky Army National Guard in Louisville during nationwide protests following the murder of George Floyd and the killing of Breonna Taylor. [12]
A grand jury has indicted one officer on criminal charges six months after Breonna Taylor was fatally shot by police in Kentucky.
Prosecutors are required to prove officers’ entry was the actual cause of Taylor’s death, as well as the proximate cause, meaning her death was “the natural and probable consequence” of ...