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The story of what happened the night Breonna Taylor was killed remains largely untold. But a clearer picture of her life and death emerged from interviews with public officials and people who knew her, as well as a review of 1,500+ pages of police records. https://nyti.ms/31HksN7
Breonna Taylor had fallen asleep watching TV with her boyfriend when Louisville police officers punched in her door. Fearing an intruder, her boyfriend fired his gun once, wounding an officer. “All of a sudden there’s a whole lot of shots,” he said. https://nyti.ms/3b9PT5P
Breonna Taylor’s on-again off-again relationship with an ex-boyfriend, a convicted drug dealer who listed her apartment as his address, caught the attention of police. Taylor had no criminal record and was never the target of an inquiry. https://nyti.ms/3b9PT5P
Though Louisville police had court approval for a "no-knock" entry of Breonna Taylor’s home, orders changed before the raid: The officers were to announce themselves. In interviews with neighbors, only one said he heard them shout “Police!” a single time. https://nyti.ms/3b9PT5P
Her friends and family described Breonna Taylor as loving and fun. She adored fast cars and hot sauce. Her friends joked that she would put it on pancakes. “It was the Bre way,” said her cousin. “She was ‘extra’ and we loved her.” https://nyti.ms/3b9PT5P
Taylor, an EMT who planned to become a nurse and kept her life goals written on Post-it notes around her apartment, was intent on setting a good example for her younger sister and 2-year-old goddaughter. “They look up to me,” she wrote in her scrapbook. https://nyti.ms/3b9PT5P
Breonna Taylor has since become an icon, her silhouette a symbol of police violence and racial injustice. Read @rcallimachi’s investigation: https://nyti.ms/3b9PT5P
