LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Louisville police released body camera video Friday of officers shooting a man wanted for the murder of a woman near the city's Park Hill neighborhood.

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 Louisville Metro Police 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 been released.

Police responded to the scene to find the man, identified as 36-year-old Joshua Miller, in an alley near the scene of the shooting around 3 p.m. As LMPD officers approached him, the body camera video captured shots fired at them.

Joshua Miller mug

Joshua Miller, 36, shot at LMPD officers after killing a woman in Louisville's west end Sunday afternoon. (Mug from Louisville Metro Corrections) Jan. 6, 2025

"He's shooting at us ..." an officer yelled to dispatch as they ran toward the back of the house where Miller remained. 

After officers returned fire many times, they shouted many times for Miller to show them his hands. By that time, Miller had already been shot. They got to Miller as he was lying on the ground motionless, body camera video showed.

"He continued shooting at officers until he was not capable of shooting officers anymore," Humphrey said Friday.

Miller was arrested and taken to UofL Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and released later that night. No officers or civilians were injured.

"We're obviously dealing with another situation with a murder suspect, in this case, who basically committed cold blooded murder and then came back and shot at officers," Humphrey said. "So again, very thankful to these officers, very grateful that no one else was hurt."

Days after the shooting, LMPD identified the officers who returned fire as William Stull, Kyle Cosgrove and Matthew Foust.

The officers were on site to control the crime scene of the alleged homicide that happened hours earlier.

"These patrol officers thought they were holding traffic points keep people out of a crime scene," Humphrey said. "They thought this situation was over, and the danger came and found them, and they still responded in a moment's notice, appropriately."

According to 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 Jan. 6 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. 

Miller remains behind bars at Metro Corrections in downtown Louisville. 

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