On March 13, Breonna Taylor was shot at least eight times in her home by police
The 26-year-old Louisville, Ky. emergency room technician planned to take nursing classes in the fall to become a neonatal nurse. She had also recently bought the car of her dreams: a Dodge Charger.You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications.
“They already had a kid's name picked out,” Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, tells PEOPLE. “It was a terrible name. She said they were going to name their baby Kenbre, for Kenneth and Breonna. I'm like, ‘No, no you're not.’ That is too much!”On March 12, Taylor -- who loved weekly family barbecue nights and road trips with her girlfriends -- stopped by her mother’s house to coax her into cooking for her. “I said, ‘Listen, it's not happening.
"There was a loud banging, then the door flies off the hinges," says attorney Lonita Baker, who represents Palmer in a wrongful-death lawsuit against the police officers. The officers were investigating a drug dealer when they arrived at Taylor's door.Breonna Taylor's Family to Hold a Vigil to Commemorate What Would've Been Her 27th Birthday
Walker, who said he thought it was a break-in, fired a shot, hitting one of the officers in the thigh. The police fired back more than 20 shots, hitting Taylor at least eight times.
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