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   LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Saying the case demands more investigation,   
   Commonwealth’s Attorney Tom Wine announced Friday his office   
   will move to dismiss all charges against Breonna Taylor’s   
   boyfriend after he fired a gun in her apartment and seriously   
   wounded a police sergeant.   
      
   Kenneth Walker, 27, was charged with attempted murder and   
   assault in the March 13 incident in which plain-clothes officers   
   fatally shot Taylor while executing a “no-knock” search warrant   
   at her apartment.   
      
   "I believe that additional investigation is necessary," Wine   
   said.   
      
   But Wine said Walker's case could be presented to a grand jury a   
   second time, depending on the results of investigations by the   
   FBI and Kentucky Attorney General’s Office.   
      
   The prosecutor also delivered a strong defense of the police who   
   executed the search warrant of Taylor’s home, saying evidence   
   clearly shows that police knocked on her door multiple times   
   before using a battering ram to get in.   
      
   Still, Walker's attorney, Rob Eggert, said he was "thrilled" by   
   the dismissal.   
      
   Minute by minute: What happened the night Louisville police   
   fatally shot Breonna Taylor   
      
   "Theoretically, they can bring it back," he said, "but now he is   
   freed from home incarceration and can go on with his life."   
      
   Walker had previously been released from jail in March and   
   placed on home incarceration.   
      
   Attorneys for Taylor's family, Ben Crump, Sam Aguiar and Lonita   
   Baker, said in a statement that the charges never should have   
   been filed.   
      
   "This is a belated victory for justice and a powerful testament   
   to the power of advocacy," they said. “Kenneth Walker and   
   Breonna Taylor did everything right the night police ambushed   
   their home."   
      
   Police say they knocked '6 or 7' times   
   In an unusual news conference, Wine played statements from   
   Walker on the night of the shooting in which he acknowledged   
   that someone repeatedly banged on the door.   
      
   Angrily disputing assertions that police didn't knock, Wine told   
   reporters that is "clearly refuted by one person inside that   
   apartment who knows best what happened — Walker.”   
      
   Wine also played a statement from Sgt. John Mattingly, who   
   Walker allegedly shot, and who said officers announced on "six   
   or seven occasions" that they were police and had a warrant.   
      
   Wine said that ultimately a jury will have to decide if Walker   
   was truthful when he said he didn’t hear that, which Wine said   
   would depend on "what you think of his credibility."   
      
   Wine played another clip which showed that Walker initially told   
   police that it was Taylor who fired the single shot from inside   
   the apartment that wounded Mattingly.   
      
   Walker said he said that because "I was scared."   
      
   https://www.courier-   
   journal.com/story/news/local/2020/05/22/prosecutor-dismisses-   
   charges-against-breonna-taylors-boyfriend-kenneth-   
   walker/5219308002/   
        
      
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