Louisville police conducting a drug bust charged into Breonna Taylor's house and shot her 8 times. Her family says they were at the wrong address.

• Breonna Taylor, 26, was shot and killed by police in her Louisville home on March 13 during a narcotics bust.
• Police said someone inside the apartment opened fire at them, injuring an officer.
• But a defense attorney for Taylor's boyfriend said in a court filing that police didn't announce themselves while entering, so Kenneth Walker thought someone was breaking into the apartment.
• The family is being represented by Benjamin Crump, a well-known civil rights attorney who has represented other black shooting victims, including Ahmaud Arbery and Trayvon Martin.
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The shooting death of yet another black person has been thrust into the national spotlight.

This time it's the case of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, who was killed by police in her Louisville home during a narcotics bust in the early hours of March 13.

Police said they returned fire after someone in the apartment shot at them, injuring an officer, according to the Associated Press.

However, Rob Eggert, a defense attorney for Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, said in court filings that the police team — which included two officers and one sergeant — didn't knock or announce themselves when entering the apartment, the Courier Journal reported.

"While police may claim to have identified themselves, they did not," Eggert wrote in the filing viewed by the Courier Journal. "Mr. Walker and Ms. Taylor again heard a large bang on the door. Again, when they inquired there was no response that there was police outside. At this point, the door suddenly explodes. Counsel believes that police hit the door with a battering ram."

Walker fired one round in self-defense, but officers "failed to use any sound reasonable judgment" and fired "more than 25 blind shots into multiple homes," Eggert added.

Following the incident, Eggert said he inspected the building where the pair lived and located proof of at least 20 gunshots, eight of which hit Taylor, killing her.

"Breonna Taylor was shot at least eight times by the officers' gunfire and died as a result. Breonna had posed no threat to the officers and did nothing to deserve to die at their hands," the complaint says, according to the Associated Press.

Taylor's family described her as a kind and honest person, who loved helping people in her role as an EMT.

"She really did not deserve to end her life so horrifically," her aunt, Bianca Austin, told the Courier Journal.

An attorney who's also representing Ahmaud Arbery's family is on the case

In a lawsuit filed in April, Taylor's family alleged that officers weren't looking for Taylor or Walker. They executed the raid at the wrong address despite having already taken a suspect into custody earlier that day.

The Courier Journal identified the police's suspect as Jamarcus Glover, and said he was detained more than 10 miles away from Taylor's house and identified before officers executed the search warrant at Taylor's house, where they didn't find any drugs.

The Criminal Interdiction Squad, which was involved in the incident, does not use body-worn cameras so there's no footage of the incident, Police Chief Steve Conrad said, according to the Courier Journal.

The three policemen involved in the case have been placed on administrative leave, according to the Associated Press.

On Monday, Taylor's family enlisted the help of Benjamin Crump, a well-known civil rights and personal injury attorney.

Crump, who also represented the family of Trayvon Martin, issued a statement to news outlets, deeming Taylor's killing "inexcusable."

"We stand with the family of this young woman in demanding answers from the Louisville Police Department," Crump said in the statement. "Despite the tragic circumstances surrounding her death, the Department has not provided any answers regarding the facts and circumstances of how this tragedy occurred, nor have they taken responsibility for her senseless killing."

Crump is among the lawyers working with the family of Ahmaud Arbery, who was killed during a jog in South Georgia on February 23 after being pursued and shot by Gregory McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, both of whom are white.

The pair told police that Arbery resembled a burglary suspect, but, after roaming free for more than two months after Arbery died, they were arrested on May 6. They face felony murder and aggravated assault charges. The delay of justice in Arbery's case has triggered waves of unrest and protests, and triggered investigations into and calls for the resignation of local prosecutors.

Crump also represented the family of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, in Florida in 2012.

Meanwhile, it's been nearly two months since Taylor was killed, but her death has the snagged the attention of people after activist Shaun King shared her story on social media.

Our fight for justice for Breonna Taylor starts today. Listen to this in full on your streaming platform of choice and join us in the fight for justice.

A post shared by Shaun King (@shaunking) on May 12, 2020 at 10:47am PDTMay 12, 2020 at 10:47am PDT

King is pushing for charges to be brought against the offending police officers and called on Mayor Greg Fischer and Gov. Andy Beshear to intervene.

A Change.org petition seeking justice for Taylor has amassed over 11,000 signatures as of Tuesday evening.

"For weeks, the city treated Breonna like she was a criminal, calling her a 'suspect' before finally admitting that she was an innocent, crimeless victim," the petition says. "She had no drugs. She committed no crime. Yet, she is dead, and the perpetrators are facing no charges."

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