Breonna Taylor, left, and Myles Cosgrove, right, in a composite image. Taylor family attorney/LMPD The Louisville police officer who shot a...
- The Louisville police officer who shot and killed Breonna Taylor has a new job.
- Myles Cosgrove has been hired by the Carroll County Sheriff's Office, per the Louisville Courier-Journal.
- Cosgrove never faced legal repercussions for the fatal shooting of Taylor in 2020.
The Louisville police officer who shot and killed Breonna Taylor was hired by another department in Kentucky last week, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported.
Myles Cosgrove, who was fired by the Louisville Metro Police Department in January 2021, has been hired by the Carroll County Sheriff's Office, its chief deputy Rob Miller told the Courier-Journal.
Carroll County is about an hour's drive northeast of the Louisville Metro Police Department.
Cosgrove never faced legal repercussions for the fatal shooting of Taylor, a 26-year-old unarmed Black woman who died in her apartment during a botched drug raid in March 2020, after police entered her home on a no-knock warrant.
Miller, the chief deputy, addressed the lack of legal charges against Cosgrove when justifying his hiring to the Courier-Journal. He said his department ran a background check on Cosgrove, which he passed, the newspaper reported.
"We felt like he was a good candidate to help us in our county," Miller said, adding that Cosgrove's experience working for a police narcotics department would help reduce the flow of drugs in the area, per the Courier-Journal.
Miller also said in an interview with local news station WLKY that there would be "opinions on both sides of the equation" regarding the controversial hiring.
Cosgrove was one of the three Louisville police officers involved in Taylor's fatal shooting, with an FBI ballistics lab later finding that it was likely Cosgrove's bullet that killed her.
Though one officer — former Detective Brett Hankison — was charged in connection to the shooting, a grand jury declined to charge Cosgrove or Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly.
But Cosgrove was ultimately fired from Louisville Metro Police Department in January 2021 for violating departmental policy relating to Taylor's killing, which included failing to use a body camera while executing the no-knock warrant.
Former Louisville interim police Chief Yvette Gentry wrote in a pre-termination letter that Cosgrove failed to "properly identify a target" and sprayed bullets in several directions, Insider previously reported.
The City of Louisville settled with Taylor's estate in September 2020, paying out $12 million.
Cosgrove's family started an online fundraiser to buy him out of his service so that he could retire, but it never reached the fundraising target.
Cosgrove also filed a lawsuit appealing his termination, but the court denied the appeal, finding that the decision was justified.
Insider contacted Carroll County Sheriff's Office for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
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