Former LMPD Officer Brett Hankison Found ‘Not Guilty’ on Charges

The sole Louisville Metro Police Department officer criminally charged after the drug raid that left Breonna Taylor dead on March 13, 2020 has been found not guilty on all counts of wanton endangerment.

After a three-hour deliberation, the jury found Brett Hankison not guilty, removing the possibility of a maximum sentence of 15 years.

The charges did not directly relate to Taylor’s death, but rather to shooting into Taylor’s apartment and into the adjacent unit, which was occupied by a couple and their young child.

Taylor was killed in the shootout between the officers and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, who told investigators he opened fire first because he thought the officers were intruders.

Hankison was fired from LMPD in June 2020 and was indicted by a grand jury in September 2020 for “blindly” firing 10 rounds from outside of Taylor’s apartment.

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