FRANKFORT, Ky. (March 5, 2025) – Attorney General Russell Coleman announced today that action by the Attorney General’s Violent Crime Reduction Team (VRT) resulted in the indictment of a Jefferson County man for a felony firearms charge. The Louisville-based VRT is part of the Attorney General’s Special Prosecutions Unit.
Keaynan Tyrone Braugher, 28, was indicted by a Jefferson County Grand Jury on a charge of possession of a handgun by a convicted felon (Class C Felony). Braugher will be arraigned March 10, 2025.
The Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) investigated the case. Assistant Attorney General in Charge of the Violent Crime Reduction Team Critt Cunningham will prosecute the case on behalf of the Commonwealth.
The Kentucky Supreme Court’s rule on trial publicity limits information the Office can provide publicly.
The charges in an indictment are allegations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
Background
In October 2024, Attorney General Coleman joined Jefferson County Commonwealth’s Attorney Gerina D. Whethers, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg, Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell, LMPD Chief Paul Humphrey and Jefferson County Circuit Court Clerk David L. Nicholson to announce the Attorney General’s Violent Crime Reduction Team, a first-of-its-kind collaboration among their offices to combat violent crime in Louisville.
General Coleman established a new Attorney General’s Office location in downtown Louisville, initially staffed by two prosecutors and a detective. The downtown office space used by the VRT was secured in partnership with the Mayor’s Office and Jefferson Circuit Court Clerk Nicholson. The team is collaborating with Commonwealth’s Attorney Whethers’ Office to be assigned and prosecute cases.
The team is also among the prosecutors in the Attorney General’s Office who were sworn in as Special United States Attorneys last month, allowing them to bring the full force of both the state and federal governments against criminals to protect Kentucky families.
According to an agreement between the Attorney General and the Commonwealth’s Attorney, the dedicated prosecutors and investigators from the Attorney General’s Special Prosecutions Unit and the Department of Criminal Investigations (DCI) will handle select cases involving nonfatal shootings, convicted felons in possession of a firearm, Louisville’s Group Violence Intervention Program (GVI) and the Prohibited Firearms Possessor program (PFP).
To date, the Attorney General’s Violent Crime Reduction Team has indicted 25+ cases.