The popular owner of a Louisville barbeque eatery who was killed as authorities tried to quell police brutality protests was fatally shot by National Guard troops, a new investigation has found.
However, J. Michael Brown, the Kentucky Secretary of the Executive Cabinet said state investigators examined shrapnel found in McAtee’s body and matched rifles that were carried by members of the National Guard, according to the Associated Press.
Security video footage released by the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department shows a crowd of people running into his kitchen and McAtee attempting to shield a teenage girl.
In an interview with BET.com last week, McAtee’s nephew, Marvin McAtee said he believed all along that it was the National Guard that fired the fatal shot.
National Guard troops were called into Louisville to address protests in the wake of the police killings of George Floyd in Minneapolis and closer to home, the death of Breonna Taylor, an EMT who was killed by LMPD officers in a drug raid at the wrong home.
