A Kentucky grand jury declined to bring murder charges in the killing of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black medical worker who was killed by police in March during a botched “no-knock” raid. Instead, former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison was indicted on Wednesday on three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment.
The two other officers involved in the botched raid, Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove, were not charged at all.
Judge Annie O’Connell, who announced the charges, said Hankison “wantonly shot a gun” into three apartments but did not say Taylor was the occupant of one of those apartments. The indictment essentially charges Hankison for the endangerment of Taylor’s neighbors, but not for the shooting of Taylor herself.