They burst they door open after knocking many times. A neighbor testified to hearing them announced themselves as the police. The boyfriend fired his gun out of fear before identifying who or what he was shooting at. The bullet hit an officer in the leg. The police then opened fire. Breonna Taylor, the drug money mule for her "ex"-boyfriend, whom she was caught both on jailhouse phone recording and police stakeout surveillance moving drug money in and out of the "trap house" for, was killed as a result.