The Associated Press

NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. - Kentucky State Police have released a report that offers some insight into a shootout two years ago at a Jessamine County home that killed two police officers and the man to whom they were serving a warrant.

Three Jessamine County sheriff's deputies went to Phillip Todd Walker's home to serve a warrant for terroristic threatening after Walker threatened to kill his nephew and other relatives.

Capt. Chuck Morgan, Billy Ray Walls and Sammy Brown entered the home peacefully Nov. 13, 2001. Morgan told Walker that the warrant "was no big deal," just a misdemeanor, and that Walker would get out of jail quickly. Walker told the deputies that they "were just doing their job."

Then Walker, seated on a bed, told the deputies that he had been drinking.

At that point, according to a 129-page report released Thursday by state police, Walker reached under the bed and pulled out a gun in a case. Morgan repeatedly told Walker "to leave the guns alone." Walker pulled another from beneath the bed: an M-1 .30-caliber carbine, according to the report. He pointed the semiautomatic rifle at Brown, and then pointed it in Walls' direction, and shooting began.

When it stopped, Walker, 75, and Walls, 28, were dead. Morgan, 51, was wounded and died 15 days later. Brown, 29, had been shot in the shoulder, head and hip, and needed months of physical therapy before he could return to work. Later inspection of Walls' and Morgan's guns revealed that neither had been fired.

The report said Walker didn't want to go quietly.

"It is clear that Phillip Todd Walker had no intention of being arrested on November 13th," Kentucky State Police Detective Monte Owens wrote. "It is apparent he had a plan, and although we will never know what thoughts he possessed, he succeeded in thwarting the successful execution of the warrant for his arrest."

Brown, who shot Walker, has been honored for his bravery in the shooting.