The Shooter opened fire on an employee at the Old National Bank on East Main Street and killed five people, police say. The shooting occurred at 8:30 a.m. ET
Authorities said that the shooter began his attack at the Old National Bank in downtown around 8:30 a.m. He opened fire on some employees after they met for a morning meeting at the bank. A bank manager told CNN she watched the meeting from her office and saw her coworkers die.
A source that has direct knowledge of the scene said one of the people who was shot was a police officer. There was an exchange of gunfire between the shooter and police.
The Louisville, Kentucky, police said five people were dead inside the bank building and six people were in the local hospital after the shooting.
The old national bank on East Main Street was the location of an incident that the Louisville Metro police department responded to. Officers were on scene in minutes, police said.
Video from the scene taken by CNN affiliate WDRB shows a large police presence in the area as well as shattered glass at the entrance of the Old National Bank.
A local man told CNN affiiliate WLKY he got a call from his wife, who works at Old National Bank, who said there was an active shooter and she was locked in a vault inside the bank. The man called for help, but the police were already aware of the shooting.
Hagan Curd said he was walking his dog on East Main Street on Monday morning when he began to see people running in his direction. Several loud gunshots can be heard in video he took at the scene.
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The Louisville metro area has a population of over six hundred thousand as of the 2020 Census. The 300 block of East Main Street is bordered to the east by the minor league stadium Louisville Slugger Field and includes a bank, dentist’s office, a furniture store and the Louisville Ballet.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said in a tweet he was headed to the scene of the shooting. He requested prayers for the families and city of Louisville.
Buchheit-Sims described Sturgeon as “extremely intelligent” and others who knew him told CNN they were shocked to see the violence, which launched a massive police response in the heart of one of America’s most populated cities. The murderer wrote in his writings that he couldn’t fit in at Old National Bank and was on the verge of being terminated when he entered the bank with a rifle.
The four victims, all between the ages of 40 and 64, were identified as Joshua Barrick, Juliana Farmer, Tommy Elliott and James Tutt, the chief said. Gov. Andy Beshear said Elliott, a senior vice president at the bank, was one of his closest friends.
A police officer who just graduated from the police academy and two other people in critical condition are the ones who were injured. The man was taken to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the head, and had to have brain surgery.
The chief said that three are in non critical condition and three have been released. Five of the nine people injured had gunshot wounds, a hospital spokesperson said.
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Sturgeon graduated from the University of Alabama in December 2020, according to a spokesperson for the university. He participated in an accelerated master’s program and earned both his bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in finance at the same time, the spokesperson, Shane Dorrill, said.
The shooting was live-streamed on Instagram and has since been taken down. A law enforcement source said that police had the video.
“I will say this, that the suspect was live streaming. And unfortunately, that’s tragic. To know that the incident happened and was captured.
Earlier, Sturgeon played basketball and ran track for his high school in a Louisville suburb, and he was named a semifinalist for a National Merit Scholarship in 2015, according to local news reports.
“This is a total shock. One of his classmates said he was a good kid who came from a good family. “I can’t even say how much this doesn’t make sense. I can’t believe it.”
In a 2018 college essay posted to the website CourseHero, a user identified as a University of Alabama student named Connor Sturgeon wrote that he had had trouble fitting in at school.
The author hoped to become a better person after college as he wasgun to mature socially and was starting to see improvement in this area.
While watching his son at a basketball camp,Todd said he might prefer to spend more time with his own sons than other people.