Breonna Taylor’s Boyfriend Reaches $2 Million Settlement With City of Louisville

Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker III, has reached a $2 million dollar settlement with the City of Louisville in response to “the unlawful police raid that led to Ms. Taylor’s death,” a news release from Walker’s legal team says.

“While this tragedy will haunt Kenny for the rest of his life, he is pleased that this chapter of his life is completed. He will live with the effects of being put in harm’s way due to a falsified warrant, to being a victim of a hailstorm of gunfire and to suffering the unimaginable and horrific death of Breonna Taylor,” Steve Romines, one of the attorneys representing Walker, said in the release.

The night of Taylor’s death, Louisville Metro Police Department officers barged in her residence on March 13, 2020, as they executed a search warrant as part of a narcotics investigation in the early morning hours.

Walker later said he and Taylor yelled to ask who was at the door, but they did not get a response. Believing police to be intruders, Walker grabbed a gun he legally owned and fired a shot when the officers broke through the door and shot Taylor.

He was accused of shooting Louisville Metro Police Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly in the leg and was charged at first with attempted murder of a police officer and first-degree assault, but prosecutors later decided to drop the charges.

Walker filed a lawsuit in September 2020, and a federal civil rights lawsuit in March 2021. In both lawsuits, the defendants were the Louisville Metro Government and some of the individual officers involved in obtaining a “materially false” search warrant and Taylor’s fatal shooting.

About six months after Taylor was killed, the city paid a historic $12 million settlement to her family to settle a wrongful death lawsuit.

According to CNN, the settlement didn’t include any admission of wrongdoing.