On Wednesday, LMPD released 4,470 pages including investigative reports, interview summaries and evidence reports, as well as 251 videos and hundreds of photos.
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The Louisville Metro Police Department has released the contents of its internal investigation following the death of Breonna Taylor, including photos of her brandishing guns and text messages that indicate her boyfriend Kenneth Walker sold drugs.
On Wednesday, LMPD
released 4,470 pages including investigative reports, interview summaries and evidence reports, as well as 251 videos and hundreds of photos.
Taylor's death in a hail of police bullets early on March 13 sparked protests nationwide, and the document dump follows a controversial grand jury ruling that saw no officers directly charged in her death.
Included in the new documents are photos of Taylor and Walker posing with guns, as well as text messages that strongly suggest that Walker was involved in the sale of illegal drugs.
The trove of investigative files revealed:
- Walker had been involved in the sale of drugs, according to messages recovered from his phone by police.
- Walker told investigators that he and Breonna were 'scared to death' when they heard banging on the door on March 13 and he feared it was her drug-dealing ex-boyfriend, Jamarcus Glover.
In police interviews, Walker said that he was not involved in serious criminal activity, but did say that he sometimes personally used marijuana.
However, a search of his phone 'found numerous conversations about drug trafficking,' investigators said in the newly released documents.
In several 'chats' described in the documents, Walker discusses selling 'pills' to Hooters waitresses.
In another conversation, he sent an image of a bag of marijuana, advertising it as 'Cali High Grade Premium Cannabis 1LB,' according to the documents.
In other messages, Walker offered to sell half ounces for $25, or two 'zips', slang for ounces, for $260, the documents state.
The messages with more than two dozen apparent customers span the fall of 2019 to March of this year, just prior to the raid.
In another group chat, Walker discussed robbing someone, the documents state. Walker asked how much 'bread' the target had, and another person replied that it was at least $25,000.
When someone in the chat asked if it was an easy target or whether they needed to to homework, Walker replied that he 'does his homework on every mission,' according to the documents.