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A grand jury indicted a police officer for the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor at her home in the US state of Kentucky.
Ms. Taylor, 26, a hospital emergency room technician, was shot multiple times during a police raid on March 13.
His death has become a rallying cry for anti-racism protesters, who have called for the three officers involved to be arrested and charged.
Officials previously agreed to pay his family $ 12 million (£ 9.3 million) in a settlement.
Brett Hankison has been charged with three counts of “senseless endangering” over the shooting.
He was fired from the Louisville Metro Police Department in June after investigators discovered he had “blindly and senselessly shot 10” at the apartment, according to his termination letter.
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The other two officers who unloaded their weapons that night, Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove, have not been charged.
What happened to Mrs. Taylor?
Ms. Taylor was at her home in Louisville on March 13 when police officers entered her apartment shortly after midnight, her family says.
Narcotics officers raided his home and used a ram to remove the hinges from the front door. No drugs were found on her property and Ms. Taylor had no criminal record.
The police were acting under a controversial type of search warrant, known as a “do not touch” order, which allows police to enter a home without warning. Police claim they knocked and announced before entering, but Ms. Taylor’s family and a neighbor have denied it.
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Taylor, a decorated emergency medical technician, was 26 when she died
At the time, Taylor was in bed with her boyfriend Kenneth Walker, a licensed gun owner, according to her family. Hearing the commotion, Walker believed people were trying to get into the apartment and later told police that she fired a shot from her pistol.
Authorities say Walker’s bullet struck a police officer, Jonathan Mattingly, in the leg, an injury that later required surgery.
Mattingly and two other officers, Brett Hankison and Myles Cosgrove, returned fire and fired more than 20 rounds. Walker was not injured, but Taylor was hit multiple times and died in the hallway of her apartment, her family’s attorneys said.
The subsequent police report contained numerous errors, including listing Ms. Taylor’s injuries as “none” and the fact that force was not used to enter, when a ram had been used.
Walker was initially charged with attempted murder and assault on a police officer, but the case against him was dropped in May amid national scrutiny of the case.
