Officer Who Fatally Shot Breonna Taylor Hired by Sheriff’s Office in Kentucky

The former Louisville Metro Police officer who fatally shot Breonna Taylor has a new job in law enforcement.

Carroll County Sheriff’s Office hired Myles Cosgrove, who was fired from the Louisville department in January 2021 for violating use-of-force procedures and failing to use a body camera during the raid on Taylor’s apartment.

Carroll County is northeast of Louisville, about halfway between Louisville and Cincinnati.

Taylor, a Black woman, was killed on 13 March 2020 by police executing a narcotics search warrant.

None of the three white officers who fired into Taylor’s home were charged by a grand jury in connection with her death.

The chief deputy In Carroll county, Robert Miller, pointed to that fact in reference to Cosgrove’s hiring.

About a dozen people showed up in downtown Carrolton Monday morning to object to his hiring, holding signs and chanting “Cosgrove has got to go.”

“I think he should be in jail,”

said Haley Wilson, a 24-year-old resident of the small Kentucky town

She said it is “absolutely ridiculous” that Cosgrove is now policing her town.

Investigators said that Cosgrove fired 16 rounds into the apartment after the front door was breached and that Taylor’s boyfriend fired a shot at them.

Federal ballistics experts said they believe the shot that killed Taylor came from Cosgrove.

An FBI investigation determined that Cosgrove and Mattingly struck Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, and that Cosgrove likely fired the fatal shot.

Neither officer was charged by a 2020 state grand jury in Taylor’s death, and a two-year investigation by the FBI also cleared Cosgrove and Mattingly of any charges.