Louisville Metro Police Department

The Louisville police officer who used a battering ram to smash through Breonna Taylor's front door testified in federal court Thursday that the gunshots that went off shortly after were the “loudest I've ever heard.”

Louisville’s police chief has resigned. Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel was suspended earlier this month over her handling of a sexual harassment claim from an officer. Mayor Craig Greenberg accepted her resignation Tuesday morning.

Louisville's police chief has been placed on leave over her handling of a sexual harassment allegation involving her officers, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said Wednesday.

Police body camera video released Tuesday showed the chaotic moments when police arrived at the scene of a mass shooting at a bank in downtown Louisville, as the shooter they couldn't see from the street rained bullets down on them.

Police say the shooter who killed five people at a Louisville bank legally bought the weapon he used a week ago. Louisville Metro Police Department Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said at a Tuesday news conference that Connor Sturgeon bought the gun from a local dealership on April 4. Gwinn-Villaroel also said that officers’ body camera video from shooting will be released Tuesday afternoon. Sturgeon opened fire at a downtown bank Monday and was killed by police. The shooting comes just two weeks after a former student killed three children and three adults at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee.

A shooting Monday at a bank in downtown Louisville killed at least four people and wounded at least eight others, police said. The suspected lone shooter was also dead.

Louisville's incoming mayor says Police Chief Erika Shields will step down in January. Shields took over in January 2021, months after the Breonna Taylor shooting.

Louisville police officers have expressed a lack of confidence in how their department is being run.Members of the River City Fraternal Order of Police…