The Louisville Metro Police Merit Board will sit and review the case of the former Louisville Metro Police detective who was terminated from his position after the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. The officer seeks to be reinstated to his original job. Myles Cosgrove was fired from his job in January for failing to "properly identify a target" before shooting 16 rounds into Taylor's apartment on March 13, 2020. Cosgrove will appear before the Louisville Metro Police Merit Board at 9 a.m. Nov 9–10 and Dec. 13–15, and the board will determine whether or not to uphold his discharge from the police department. The FBI found that Cosgrove fired the fatal shot that killed Taylor, 26, striking her pulmonary artery. Former interim Chief Yvette Gentry detailed in a letter the grounds for terminating Cosgrove, stating he discharged his weapon in the apartment without having a clear and direct target. "The shots you fired went in three distinctly different directions, demonstrating that you...
