Black woman shot and killed after Kentucky police entered her home as she slept, family says

A black woman was asleep in her Louisville, Kentucky, home when three police officers forced their way inside, "blindly fired" and killed her, according to a lawsuit filed by the woman's family. Breonna Taylor, an EMT worker, died on March 13 after officers with the Louisville Metro Police Department executed a search warrant at the wrong home, the suit states.

The officers were looking for a suspect who lived in a different part of the city and was already in police custody after he was arrested earlier.

The lawsuit states that Taylor and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, were asleep in the bedroom when police in plain clothes and unmarked vehicles arrived at the house around 12:30 a.m. The three officers entered Taylor's home "without knocking and without announcing themselves as police officers," the suit states.

The lawsuit says Taylor and Walker woke up and thought criminals were breaking in. Walker called 911 and police said he opened fire (at the unknown intruders) and shot an officer. The suit states that Walker had a license to carry and kept firearms in the home for protection.

"The police then proceeded to spray gunfire into the residence with a total disregard for the value of human life," the lawsuit alleges. "Shots were blindly fired by the officers all throughout Breonna's home." Taylor, 26, was shot eight times and died. Walker, 27, was arrested and charged with attempted murder on a police officer.

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