READ: Order Granting Deadly Minneapolis No-Knock Warrant Released

MINNEAPOLIS —No-knock warrant documents released Thursday revealed new details about the search that led to Amir Locke’s killing by Minneapolis police last week.

Minneapolis police applied for seven search warrants in hopes of finding Locke's 17-year-old cousin Mekhi C. Speed, who was wanted in connection with a St. Paul murder investigation.

Speed was a suspect in the shooting death of Otis R. Elder. Speed was charged with murder on Tuesday.

Locke was not a suspect in Elder's killing, and he was not named on any of the search-warrant applications filed by police.

Police used a no-knock warrant — approved by Judge Peter Cahill — on Feb. 2 to enter unit 701 of the Bolero Flats apartment complex, where they found Locke asleep under a blanket.

Footage from police-worn body cameras shows Locke began to move under the blanket while handling a handgun after an officer kicked the couch he was on.

An officer later identified by Minneapolis officials as Mark Hanneman quickly shot and killed Locke, who legally possessed a firearm at the time of his death.

Before Locke's death, police wrote in a search-warrant application that "a no-knock entry is necessary to prevent the loss, destruction, or removal of the objects of the search, or to protect the safety of the searchers or the public" because the homicide "was a violent robbery where the suspect shot the victim with a .223 Caliber firearm."

Cahill agreed and authorized Minneapolis, St. Paul and Minnesota police officers "to enter and search without announcement."

The city of Minneapolis released police body camera footage from Locke's fatal shooting on Feb. 3.

Read the search warrant application for unit 701 — where Locke was killed — below:

Reporting from the Associated Press was used in this story.