'Obviously gun happy': Cop who killed Breonna Taylor rams car, pulls gun on residents
Former Louisville, Kentucky police officer Myles Cosgrove is now being accused of aggressive behavior in his new role as sheriff's deputy in a nearby county.
According to the Louisville Courier Journal, Cosgrove, who was hired on as a sheriff's deputy in Carroll County this April, allegedly "barreled into Happy Hollow trailer park at a high rate of speed without his emergency lights on," then rammed his police cruiser into a resident's truck so hard that the vehicle ricocheted into a nearby building and broke off two cinder blocks. He then reportedly damaged the rear end of another resident's car and proceeded to point his gun at the owner of the truck and several bystanders.
The owner of the truck, William Joshua Short, was eventually charged with wanton endangerment of a police officer and with fleeing and evading police. However, witnesses to the incident told the Journal that Short made no attempt to run away from Cosgrove.
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"[Cosgrove] hit him pretty hard,” said witness Jackie McCormack. “He just straight rammed him.”
"He is obviously gun happy," McCormack added.
"Josh could have been killed,” Alexus Mobley, who was a passenger in Short's truck, told the Journal.
Cosgrove was fired from the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department (LMPD) after the botched no-knock raid that killed Louisville resident Breonna Taylor in March of 2020. Cosgrove himself fired 16 bullets into Taylor's apartment, including the shot that the FBI said killed the 26 year old medical technician in her sleep.
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Four other officers who took part in the raid — Joshua Jaynes, Kyle Meany, Brett Hankison, and Kelly Goodlett — are all currently facing federal charges of civil rights violations, conspiracy, use of excessive force offenses and obstruction. Officers Jaynes, Meany, and Goodlett are accused of lying in order to obtain the warrant that led to the raid.
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron (R), who is the Republican nominee in Kentucky's 2023 gubernatorial election, oversaw the grand jury proceedings that ultimately led to no state charges being filed against any of the officers involved.
