Breonna Taylor - Information from ABC article "Timeline: Inside the investigation of Breonna Taylor's killing and its aftermath"

By Ewitcher

  • "no-knock" search warrant of Breonna Taylor's home Request

  • Taylor, 26, is fatally struck by at least eight bullets.

  • Spring Valley Funeral Home in New Albany, Indiana, Breonna Taylor's wake.

  • Breonna's Boyfriend Kenneth Walker is released from jail

    Louisville judge Olu Stevens agrees to release Walker from jail and into home confinement in order to keep the jail population low as a preventative measure against the spread of the coronavirus. Louisville police union president Ryan Nichols says the judge's decision to release Walker is a "slap in the face to everyone wearing a badge" and has endangered the public.

  • Wrongful Death Lawsuit

    Attorneys Sam Aguiar and Lonita Baker file a wrongful death lawsuit in Jefferson District Court against Officers Cosgrove and Hankison and Sgt. Mattingly on behalf of Breonna Taylor's mother, Tamika Palmer.

  • Louisville Postal Inspector Tony Gooden says that his office was not a part of an inspection of possible drug trafficking activity in packages delivered to Breonna Taylor's address.

  • Commonwealth Attorney Tom Wine announces that the charges against Kenneth Walker have been temporarily dismissed as the FBI, Department of Justice and Kentucky attorney general open their own investigation into Taylor's death.

  • In honor of what would have been Taylor's 26th birthday, writer Cate Young launches an online campaign as a call to action in support of Taylor.

  • Breonna's Law Passed

    The Louisville, Kentucky, Metro Council unanimously passes Breonna's Law.
    The new law outlaws "no-knock" warrants and requires body cameras be turned on before and after every search.

  • The Louisville Metro Police Department fires Hankison.

    The department's internal investigation finds that Hankison violated procedure when he fired 10 rounds into Taylor's apartment while executing the warrant.

  • The city of Louisville announces it has reached a record $12 million settlement with the family of Taylor.

  • A Kentucky grand jury indicts Hankison on three counts of wanton endangerment.

    The charges against Hankison stem from bullets that penetrated a wall of the residence and entered a neighboring apartment, according to the attorney general. Neither he nor the other two officers involved in the fatal encounter are charged in her death. The investigation finds that Mattingly and Cosgrove were "justified in their use of force after having been fired upon by Kenneth Walker," Cameron says.

  • Taylor’s family and boyfriend, Walker, hold a news conference to respond to the grand jury’s decision and to demand Attorney General Cameron release the transcripts from the grand jury proceedings.

  • A member of the grand jury anonymously files a lawsuit to have a record of the proceedings released and to give the panel’s members permission to speak publicly about their experiences.

    Cameron says in a statement that he doesn’t object to the public release of the recordings or to the grand jury’s members speaking out. He also acknowledges that the only charge he recommended to the grand jury was that of wanton endangerment and that he never recommended homicide charges against any of the police involved in the raid on Taylor’s home.

  • Audio recordings from the three-day grand jury proceedings are filed.

  • Kevin Glogower, the attorney representing the anonymous grand juror who sued to allow panel members to speak about the proceedings, responds to a motion filed by Cameron.

  • Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Annie O’Connell rules in favor of the anonymous grand juror to speak publicly about the court proceedings.

  • Kenneth Walker, Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, also gives an interview to ABC News and Louisville’s Courier-Journal. He recounts what he witnessed on the night she died.

  • A second person who served on the Breonna Taylor grand jury releases a statement anonymously through attorney Glogower, saying they agree “wholeheartedly with the statement released by anonymous grand juror #1.”

  • Attorney General Cameron defends his decision not to give jurors the option of murder charges against the officers involved.

  • ABC News’ “20/20” airs a two-hour documentary detailing the night Breonna Taylor was killed through deeply personal home videos, new exclusive interviews and police body camera videos.