9-1-1 Call Released for Kent. EMT Fatally Shot by Police

New York Daily News

After 26-year-old EMT Breonna Taylor was fatally shot by Louisville Metro Police in her own home, her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, made a frantic call to 911.

“I don’t know what is happening,” Walker said. “Somebody kicked in the door and shot my girlfriend.”

Police entered Taylor’s home with a no-knock warrant on March 13 to search for illegal drugs, which were never found. Thinking that they were intruders, Walker fired a warning shot, which led to a barrage of gunfire from police, who hit Taylor eight times.

The recording of the 911 call was shared with the Louisville Courier-Journal on Thursday by an attorney for Taylor’s family. In the roughly three-minute call, Walker is distraught, telling the dispatcher that Taylor is on the ground and not awake or able to speak.

Walker was initially charged with attempted murder of a police officer in the aftermath of the incident, but the case was dismissed by prosecutors on May 22.

Also, in the midst of outrage about the shooting, embattled Louisville Police Chief Steve Conrad announced his retirement. Since Taylor’s death, the city has introduced a pair of reforms related to no-knock warrants, which allow police to enter a residence without notifying those inside. These changes require the warrants to be approved by the chief of police, and force officers to wear body cameras—which were not in use during Taylor’s killing—when they are serving the warrants.

The three officers who were present when Taylor was killed are still employed, but have been on administrative leave since March while the case is investigated at both the federal and state level.