Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (https://kycir.org/series/lmpd-police-shootings/page/2/)
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Louisville Metro Police officers shot and killed 19 people between 2015 and 2020. We investigate these deaths.
Despite weeks of daily calls from protesters to “say their name,” neither Breonna Taylor nor David McAtee is listed by name in the database of police shootings that’s also riddled with inaccuracies.
The green house at the corner of 29th and St. Xavier streets is still scarred with bullet holes. Larry Jordan points them out one-by-one as a crowd gathers on the sidewalk. Nearly everyone comes wearing a red t-shirt with a picture of Jordan’s son, Demonjhea, emblazoned on the front. Demonjhea Jordan was killed by Louisville Metro Police in a hail of gunfire that erupted shortly after noon on April 24, 2018.