The family of Breonna Taylor, the Louisville emergency medical technician who was shot and killed by Louisville police executing a no-knock warrant, met with Kentucky’s Attorney General and the mayor of Louisville to get updates on the investigation into the death of the woman, according to the Washington Post.
Taylor was in her apartment March 13th when police burst in looking for a friend of Taylor’s and her boyfriend’s. Taylor, who was unarmed, shouted numerous times “Who is it?” and was shot at least eight times. Taylor’s boyfriend, a licensed firearm dealer, grabbed a weapon and fired at the invading officers, striking one in the leg. He was not injured in the raid.
Officers have claimed that they announced themselves before and after entering the apartment, an account contradicted by testimony by Taylor’s boyfriend and neighbors who heard the incident. The subject of the arrest warrant was not in the apartment, and police stated that they were acting on information that the individual had been in the apartment two months earlier.
During the meeting, Attorney General Daniel Cameron reportedly personally extended his condolences to the family for the first time since Taylor was killed. No charges against the officers involved have been announced in the case.
“They are still waiting, after 150 days, for these officers to be terminated,” lawyer Ben Crump said of Taylor’s family. “We do expect charges to be filed sooner rather than later for those responsible for the death, for the execution, of Breonna Taylor.”