Here's a breakdown of what's discussed in each recording in the Breonna Taylor probe
The much-awaited grand jury recordings in the Breonna Taylor case have been released, providing some new insight not only into the proceedings, but also background into what happened the night of the raid.
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron's office sent out the files Friday. The files from the grand jury proceedings date Sept. 21 to Sept. 23.
The decision in the case was announced Sept. 23, followed by a news conference by Cameron. Since then, he's received calls to release more information into the grand jury proceedings.
The recordings were released after a judge who is presiding over the case against former detective Brett Hankison -- the only officer indicted in the case -- ruled that the AG's office needed to release the recordings. The judge's initial ruling to release the recordings also came on the same day a grand juror filed a motion in Jefferson County for the court to release all records in the investigation.
Scroll below for a look at what we know each file contains. There are also links for how to listen to the recordings.
Sept. 21 (1):
This file includes a presentation of photos and exhibits from the AG's office to the grand jury. A member of the AG's office reviews photographs that include images of the apartment complex where Breonna Taylor lived and various shots leading into the specific building that housed her apartment.
Other exhibits include one-off images of the key figures in the case, including Taylor, her boyfriend Kenneth Walker and the officers involved in the probe.
Images from inside Taylor's apartment are also shown to jurors. These images have previously been released and can be seen below.
Sept. 21 (2):
This file includes the discussion over the execution of the warrant at Taylor's apartment on Springfield Drive. It focuses on the time, the location and what officers were looking for during the March raid.
The attorney general's investigator Jeff Fogg talks about the issue of body camera videos and search warrants. He also tells jurors to be "focused on the investigation that we're presenting."
Fogg admits during the grand jury presentation that there were issues with how the warrant was obtained.
Fogg tells the jurors "the officers were executing a valid search warrant. The officers that served this search warrant were acting in good faith."
During the records, we can hear jurors ask several questions about the timing of the warrant that was being served, and if officers knew that Jamarcus Glover (one of the main targets in the drug investigation that led to the raid on Taylor's apartment) was already in custody. Fogg told the jurors that the officers were aware.
Jurors also asked why Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly didn't have a shield before going into Taylor's apartment. Detective Tony James had the shield but was not in the front.
Sept. 21 (3):
This file includes radio transmission from Brett Hankison that is played, where he mentions they are firing an AR-15 or some type of long gun.
911 calls from neighbors are also played, and also the 911 call from Kenneth Walker.
Jurors question why there was a 5 minute lag between the 911 calls from neighbors and Walker's call.
Here's a look at the 911 timeline:
- 12:35 -- Officers arrive on scene.
- 12:40 -- Officers begin executing warrant.
- 12:43 -- First 911 call comes from neighbor.
- 12:44 -- Second 911 call comes from another neighbor.
- 12:45 -- Third 911 call comes in.
- 12:50 -- Kenneth Walker 911 call.
Sept. 21 (4):
This file includes an interview with Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly. Jurors ask questions over the timeline of the arrival and entry. This file also includes Detective Myles Cosgrove's LMPD public integrity unit interview.
Mattingly's interview is dated March 25.
Most of the jurors try to clarify the timeline of the arrival and entry of officers.
Cosgrove tells PIU that officers announced themselves and gave enough time for whoever was inside the apartment to respond, feeling nervous that they were giving too much time.
Cosgrove said he doesn't remember hearing gunshots at all. He tells PIU that he had some kind of "tunnel vision." He tells PIU that he feared for his life when he was in the doorway with Jonathan Mattingly.
Sept. 21 (5):
This file includes a recorded interview with Detective Mike Nobles who rammed the door in during the raid. He explains that police announced themselves, describes chaos that follows.
The file also includes an interview with Officer Tony James. He's adamant that they announced themselves loudly before ramming the door and that at least one neighbor knew it was police.
Sept. 22 (1):
This file is Brett Hankinson's PIU file. He recaps what he remembers from the raid, including describing that he believed someone with an AR-15 was firing at the officers when they busted through the front door.
Hankison tells PIU that he moved back out of the apartment because he didn't feel safe. He witnessed the flashes from the gunfire from the outside, then began firing into the sliding glass door.
Scroll below for more of a detailed account of Hankison's PIU file.
Kenneth Walker told officers that he only fired one shot when the officers busted through, believing it was an intruder. He was determined to have been armed with a handgun.
"I was raised by a good family. I am a legal gun owner, and I would never knowingly shoot a police officer," Walker said during a previous news conference.
Sept. 22 (2):
This file includes the PIU interview with Lt. Shawn Hoover and Kenneth Walker.
Hoover describes what happened before and during the shooting. He also describes Mattingly being shot during the raid.
Sept. 22 (3):
This file includes Kenneth Walker's interview. Much of this has been detailed in previous reports, including what Walker and Taylor were doing in the hours leading up to the deadly raid.
Walker tells investigators that officers were telling him they made a mistake. Here's what he told investigators:
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This file also includes an interview with SWAT Cmdr. Lt. Dale Massey, who recounts what happened when his team arrived to the scene and cleared it.
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Sept. 22 (4):
This recording includes an interview with an AG investigator and Myles Cosgrove. Much of the information in the interview reviews what Cosgrove told the PIU, but gives some more explanation about what he felt was going on during the evening.
Cosgrove tells Fogg that he believes he fired his weapon, calling it a "surreal experience" among everything else that he was detailing about the raid.
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Sept. 22 (5):
Detective Herman Hall talks about interviews with neighbors. He talks about how two neighbors woke up "because it sounded like Fort Knox."
Multiple neighbors report hearing Kenneth Walker crying, calling for help. Another neighbor also heard Walker telling Taylor to breathe.
During the interview, neighbors were also asked about Taylor receiving packages in the past.
Another neighbor also heard officers telling each other to: "reload, reload. Let's do what we need to do." She said she heard the other officers saying, "get down, get down."
Sept. 22 (6):
On this file, Detective Hall talks about one witness who had a Facebook Live going at the time.
Another interview involves Lt. Steve Lacefield, the supervisor of the LMPD firearms training unit, who describes that training practices include training to shoot "until there is no longer a threat."
Sept. 23 (1):
This file includes the autopsy report, the number of shots that were fired by Cosgrove, and Apartment 3 and the wanton endangerment charges for Hankison, which the grand jury brought forth those charges for the shots he fired that went into Apartment 3.
Jurors have a series of questions about whether Cosgrove used an unauthorized firearm the night of the raid at Taylor's apartment.
Sept. 23 (2):
Detective Hall receives series of questions by grand jurors.
The first questions is whether drugs, money or paraphernalia were recovered from Taylor's apartment, to which he replies, "No, they did not go forward with executing the initial search warrant."
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