LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Louisville Metro Police identified the officers who shot at a murder suspect who they say fired at them Sunday afternoon.

It happened around 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 5, after police responded to a reported shooting in the 1300 block of Cypress Street on a report that a woman had been shot multiple times. Responding officers found the woman on the sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds.

LMPD said as officers were trying to help her, she identified the suspect. She was taken to the hospital, where she later died. Her identity hasn't yet been released.

Police found him in an alley near the scene of the shooting around 3 p.m. LMPD said as officers approached the man — identified as 36-year-old Joshua Miller — he fired at officers. The officers shot back, hitting Miller, who was taken to UofL Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. No officers or civilians were injured.

On Wednesday, LMPD identified the officers who returned fire as William Stull, Kyle Cosgrove and Matthew Foust. 

According to court records, they all have several commendation letters. Stull has one letter of reprimand from 2020, when he was disciplined for not activating his body camera during a police chase.

In 2022, LMPD said Stull was exonerated for shooting a man during a carjacking investigation. 

Miller was arrested early Monday after being released from the hospital on a charge of murder and multiple counts of attempted murder of a first responder. During his arraignment that morning, a judge set his bond at $1 million. Wednesday, LMPD said Miller has been given an additional charge of attempted murder/domestic violence.

According to an arrest citation, witnesses told officers Miller was the woman's ex-boyfriend, "whom she had just contacted in order to retrieve her belongings." 

That citation said the witness explained to officers that she and the victim, her cousin, met with Miller who gave them a ride. Then she said as she was going inside the home, "she observed the listed suspect discharge a handgun several times, striking the victim before fleeing the scene."

According to the citation, Miller told an officer, "If they ask you, I wasn't sorry for it. I was trying to kill that b****." LMPD said that is recorded on an officer's body-camera video. 

Humphrey said body-camera video will be released in 10 business days. LMPD's Public Integrity Unit will investigate the shooting.

Miller remains behind bars at Metro Corrections in downtown Louisville. 

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