"Police used a battering ram to enter Taylor's southern Louisville apartment after midnight while serving a search warrant as part of a larger narcotics investigation. Walker fired in response, and Mattingly, along with Detective Myles Cosgrove and now-fired Detective Brett Hankison, returned fire, killing an unarmed Taylor in her hallway.
However, Romines said the evidence casts doubt on whether it was Walker's bullet that struck Mattingly in the left leg.
Based on crime scene photographs and other evidence he's obtained through discovery, Romines said LMPD likely fired 35 to 45 bullets into Taylor's apartment during two "flurries," or waves, of shootings.
"The radio transmission and the 911 calls reflect that a minute and eight seconds transpires with no shots before they start shooting into the apartment again," Romines said.
"During that time, Hankison yells 'reload,'" Romines said, adding that the initial 911 call about gunfire came from a neighbor at 12:42 a.m.
More than a minute elapsed after the initial gunfire was reported before anyone said "officer shot," which was at 12:43 a.m., he said.
"We know it was quite a delay before (Mattingly) announced he was shot," Romines told The Courier Journal.
A crime scene photo of the breezeway outside Breonna Taylor's apartment where LMPD Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly was shot. An attorney for Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, said photos show there was no indication of blood in the area.
Crime scene photos show that there is no blood in the breezeway or living room of Taylor's apartment, where Mattingly said he was when he was shot, Romines said.
No blood is visible in a photograph of the hollow-point bullet fired from Walker's .9 mm Glock either, he added. The photograph is under a court seal.
Based on consults with pathologists, Walker's hollow-point bullet would have done "considerably" more damage to Mattingly's thigh, he said.
According to Mattingly's account of the events he told detectives, after officers forced Taylor's door open, he saw a man and a woman, with the man "in a stretched out position" with a gun.
"As soon as I clear, he fires. Boom," he said in a police interview.
Mattingly said he could feel "heat" in his leg, just after he rounded the corner into the doorway.
"And so I just returned fire. I got four rounds off. And it was, like, simultaneous. And then I went back and went down on the side of the door and then reached around, I think I got two more off around the corner of the door."
He said he felt blood on his legs.
"So I scooted back on my butt and I yell at them, 'I've been hit in my femoral (artery)."
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