Community Groups Condemn Killing of Katelyn Hall by LMPD

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, April 2, 2026

FROM: Black Leadership Coalition of Kentucky (BLACK), Fairness Campaign, VOCAL-KY, Louisville Showing Up for Racial Justice (LSURJ), ACLU-KY, Louisville Urban League

FOR MORE INFORMATION: louisvillesurj.org and 502 558-7556
Katelyn Hall, a member of our Louisville community, is dead at the hands of Louisville police after Katelyn’s family called them for help in a crisis. While sidestepping questions about consequences for her killers, Mayor Craig Greenberg says that, in the future, LMPD needs to do better in response to mental health calls.

We have heard over and over from the mayor that LMPD will do better, but the department’s actions reinforce the same institutional racism embedded in the way policing functions, and now another Louisvillian has died at the hands of those who were supposed to help her.

​There is no evidence of the changes the mayor has repeatedly promised. As the community mourns another young woman senselessly killed, we remember Breonna Taylor and the lack of consequences for her killers or the systems that trained and shielded them. We also remember the many others who preceded and continue to follow her.

According to news reports, Hall was threatening to harm herself, not police or anyone else, when police shot her. How can any emergency responder justify killing a person to keep them from killing themselves?

We demand that the mayor bring the community a full accounting of what happened, the changes he claims to be making to address calls for help during a mental health crisis, and what consequences there will be for the officers involved.