Breonna Taylor was alive for at least 20 minutes after police officers entered her home as part of a drug investigation and shot her on March 13, the Louisville Courier Journal reported Friday.
Why it matters: Taylor did not receive receive medical attention after the shooting even though she showed signs of life, including coughing and labored breathing, according to her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, and police dispatch logs.
- The Jefferson County coroner disputed that account in a comment to the New York Times, saying Taylor "had little to no chance of survival, and was likely to have died in 'less than a minute.'"
The state of play: Taylor's family accused the Louisville Metro Police Department and city mayor in an open letter of "unlawfully" denying their open records requests for information on her case.
- Attorneys for Taylor's family issued a letter saying they're seeking the "truth" in mid-June, one day after filing motions in Jefferson Circuit Court to hold the custodians of the records in the coroner's office and Police Merit Board "in contempt of court for failure to produce records" in her case, per the Courier Journal.
What they're saying... The Louisville Metro Coroner's Office told CNN: "We had an open records request for the autopsy of Breonna Taylor. This was not going...