in another article, he continues:
Louisville officer: "Breonna Taylor would be alive" if we had served no-knock warrant
Mattingly said that officers had no idea that Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, would be at the apartment during the post-morning raid, and that's the reason "we gave her so much time" after what he claimed were multiple knocks on her door.
- "They wanted to do the right thing and they said, 'Give her time to come to the door,'" said Mattingly, who also claimed that officers yelled, "Police, search warrant!" multiple times before entering.
- Mattingly said that he was the first officer inside the apartment after they rammed down the door, and that he could see Walker pointing a gun at him after turning a hallway corner.
- Walker said he did not hear police announce themselves and he fired one shot when they barged through the door, mistaking the officers for intruders
- "Let's get one thing straight, he wasn't shooting at the ground, he wasn't firing a warning shot. He was in a stretched out, two hands," Mattingly insisted.
What they're saying: "I feel for her. I hurt for her mother and for her sisters. It's not just a passing 'Oh, this is part of the job, we did it and move on.' It's not like that," Mattingly said.
- "I mean Breonna Taylor is now attached to me for the rest of my life. And that's not again, 'Woe is me.' That's me feeling for them. That's me having a heart and a soul, going as a parent, 'How do you move on?' I don't know. I don't want to experience it."
- "I spent 20 years giving my time, blood, my energy trying to help the city that I grew up in, that I love," Mattingly said, noting that his family has received death threats. "And now when something tragic like this happens, now your family is the one that everybody wants to come after."
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Kenneth Walker, who fired first, told investigators it was in self-defense and reiterated that in his own interview. He said he "didn’t have a clue” who was coming through the door.
“I never thought it was the police,” he said. “Because why would the police be coming here?”
Police fired 32 shots in return, six of which struck Taylor, who had worked as an emergency medical technician.
Officer shot in Breonna Taylor’s apartment speaks out about deadly incident