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Breonna Taylor Shooting: 1 Of 3 Officers Indicted
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Brett Hankison, one of the three officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky in March, has been indicted by a grand jury. He faces three counts of wanton endangerment.
No charges were announced against the other two officers.
The announcement comes six months after Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was killed in her home during a botched narcotics raid.
Officers entered Taylor's home after midnight, as she and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, were sleeping. Walker, thinking the police were intruders, fired a warning shot that struck one of the officers in the leg. Police returned fire, striking Taylor eight times.
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