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Ballistics Report Confirms: Officer Shot In Breonna Taylor Raid Was Hit By Boyfriend, Not Friendly Fire

Hank Berrien
Ballistics Report Confirms: Officer Shot In Breonna Taylor Raid Was Hit By Boyfriend, Not Friendly Fire
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A newly-released ballistics report states that Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly, the police officer whose leg was hit by a bullet as he joined two other officers to serve a “no-knock” search warrant at Breonna Taylor’s apartment was shot by Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, not friendly fire, as had been alleged in some quarters.

The Louisville Metro Police Department released a Kentucky Police ballistics report that confirmed Mattingly was hit by a 9 mm round fired from Walker’s  Glock Luger semiautomatic pistol, the Daily Mail noted. The officers were carrying .40-caliber guns and fired 32 rounds during the raid.

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