Breonna Taylor neighbor tells of horror as police bullets flew past sleeping son
by Associated Press from US news | The Guardian on (#6G2Y3)
Chelsey Napper tells court she was scared to death' on night Taylor, 26, was shot dead by Louisville police in botched raid
Breonna Taylor's neighbor recalled her horror as police bullets flew into her apartment near her sleeping son as a federal trial for the former Louisville officer who fired those shots began Thursday.
Former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison fired 10 shots during the botched raid in March 2020 that left Taylor dead, though it was another officer who fatally shot the 26-year-old Black woman. Hankison, 47, is charged with two federal civil rights violations for endangering Taylor, her boyfriend and Taylor's neighbors, who shared a wall with her apartment. None of Hankison's shots hit anyone.
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