Trevon Mitchell News Today

Louisville Metro Police Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel was placed on paid administrative leave Wednesday after Mayor Craig Greenberg became aware of how she "handed a workplace sexual assault allegation involving LMPD officers."

Officer Ben Sullivan is accused of violating the departments chase policy during the incident on July 6, 2021.

FILE -- Pictured: LMPD officer Ben Sullivan appears in a civil trial in Jefferson County, Ky., on Nov. 22, 2023. (WDRB/archive)

Lamont Washington, an investigator with the Louisville Metro Police Professional Standards Unit, said an officer did break the departments pursuit policy before a 2021 crash that killed 22-year-old Trevon Mitchell.

Ben Sullivan is accused of violating the departments chase policy in July 2021 when a pursuit ended in a crash that killed a bystander.

Ben Sullivan is accused of violating the departments chase policy in July 2021 when a pursuit ended in a fatal crash.

Louisville Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel testified in an ongoing trial that the city does not agree with all of the findings in the U.S. Department of Justice’s investigation into LMPD,

Trevon Mitchell, 22, was killed when a suspect blew through a stoplight and hit his moped in July 2021.

On June 10, officers with the Winston-Salem Police Department responded to the area of Ashley Crossing and Morgan Circle in relation to shots fired.

Detectives said that the evidence indicated that there were multiple witnesses to Mitchell’s murder.