A jury on Friday found a former Kentucky police officer guilty of violating Breonna Taylor’s civil rights. Failed raid that led to his deathNBC affiliate Louisville WAVE reported.

A jury found Brett Hankison not guilty early Friday on a second charge accusing him of violating the civil rights of Taylor’s neighbor.

Taylor was killed during the incident 13 March 2020, spoil.

Prosecutors had accused Hankison of blindly shooting into Taylor’s apartment, but he was not charged with fatally shooting Taylor. Some of his shots flew into the neighboring apartment, but none of them hit anyone.

Hankison, 48, was being retried by the Justice Department after the first jury deadlocked on both counts. resulting in mistrialIn November 2023.

In 2020, police had gone to Taylor’s apartment to look for evidence for a narcotics investigation targeting Taylor’s ex-boyfriend, who was living at a different address at the time.

during the raidThe police opened fire and killed Taylor, a 26-year-old black man. boyfriend Thinking that an intruder had entered, he fired a single shot towards the front door.

Hankison, a former Louisville, Kentucky police officer, said he had to act quickly because he believed his fellow officers were being executed.

Hankison faced three lawsuits in two years. Prior to his federal trials, Taylor was accused of endangering his neighbors but was found not guilty of that crime. wanton endangerment It will be charged in 2022.

His final hearing in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky lasted approximately two weeks.

On Friday, the jury in the current case found Hankison not guilty of violating the neighbor’s rights and returned to consider the charge against Taylor.

The jury later returned with a guilty verdict on the Taylor count, WAVE reported around 9:30 p.m.