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Kentucky Grand Jury Indicts 1 Of 3 Officers In Fatal Breonna Taylor Police Shooting
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A Ken- tucky grand jury on Wednes- day indicted former Louisville police officer Brett Hanki- son on three counts of first- degree wanton endangerment in the fatal shooting of Bre- onna Taylor.
The two other officers in- volved in the shooting, Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly and Detective Myles Cosgrove, were not indicted.
A wanton endangerment charge is a class D felony and carries a penalty of one to five years in prison. The charges read by Judge Annie O'Con- nell on Wednesday said that Hankison "wantonly shot a gun" into three apartments.
The occupants of those apartments were identified by initials. None of them were BT
The three Louisville Metro Police Department officers who fired their guns at Breonna Taylor's apartment: Brett Hankison, Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove. (Photo: LMPD)
– Breonna Taylor. That means the grand jury didn't find that Hankison wantonly fired into her apartment.
The judge set a $15,000 cash bond for Hankison.
The announcement comes after Kentucky Attorney Gen- eral Daniel Cameron's of- fice presented its findings to the jury earlier this week. His team has been investigating the Taylor shooting since
May.
In anticipation of
Cameron's announcement, Louisville Mayor Greg Fis- cher invoked a 72-hour cur- few, effective Wednesday night, from 9 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. A week ago, Fischer an- nounced the city agreed to a $12 million settlement with Breonna Taylor's family that includes more than a dozen police reforms.
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