LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Kentucky Supreme Court has denied an appeal from former Louisville Metro Police Detective Myles Cosgrove to overturn his termination after he shot and killed Breonna Taylor.

The Louisville Metro Police Department and its Police Merit Board fired Cosgrove in early 2021 for firing into Taylor’s apartment during the botched raid in March 2020.

The decision ruled the former detective opened fire without identifying a target, violating LMPD’s policy on use of force. 

Cosgrove has been attempting to have his dismissal from the department overturned ever since. A Circuit Court upheld the decision in 2023, with the Kentucky Court of Appeals also siding with LMPD last year, denying his appeal. The Appellate Court ruled there was substantial evidence Cosgrove violated the policy, and the department was within its rights to fire him. 

Cosgrove was one of three officers involved in the deadly no-knock drug raid on Taylor’s apartment on March 13, 2020. He was returning fire from her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, when he fired the shot that killed the 26-year-old Black woman.

Taylor’s death after the raid partly sparked the widespread racial justice protests seen in more than 2,000 U.S. cities over the summer of 2020, alongside the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Former LMPD officer Kelly Goodlett admitted in federal court that she and another officer falsified information in the warrant used to justify the raid. That confirmed to many, including former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, that Taylor never should have been visited by armed officers on March 13, 2020.