The Three-Photon Shooting at Old National Bank in Louisville, Tenn., was the 146th Mass Shooting of the Year
The three officers who were shot are currently at the University of Louisville Hospital. Three of those patients have been discharged.
The gunman, identified by police as employee Connor Sturgeon, was livestreaming online as he carried out the shooting at Old National Bank, officials said. He opened fire inside a conference room during a morning staff meeting, Rebecca Buchheit-Sims, a manager at the bank, told CNN.
Buchheit-Sims, who was attending the meeting virtually, watched in horror as the shooting played out on her computer screen, saying the incident “happened very quickly.”
One of the hospitalized victims, 57-year-old Deana Eckert, died later Monday, police announced, though it is unclear if she was among the three people in critical condition earlier in the day.
The four other people who died Monday morning were identified by the police as a 40 year old male, a 45 year old female, and a 63 year old male.
According to a law enforcement source, Sturgeon was told that he was about to be fired from his job at the bank and that he had been at the bank for close to two years.
The source said that the person who killed himself left a note for his parents and a friend that said he planned to shoot up his workplace.
When police arrived, they found the shooter dead in a gunfight with officers. There were at least two officers injured, one who was shot in the head.
It was two weeks after the shooting at a Christian school in Tennessee that the Gun Violence Archive said Monday’s tragedy was the 146th mass shooting of the year.
The Kentucky State Senate is preparing for a resolution of the gun violence crisis after the shooting of a bank employee in Louisville, killing 22 years after the Covenant school shooting
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has ordered flags across the state to be flown at half-staff until Friday evening in honor of the victims, but some Democrats are concerned that the expression of grief will come and go without any solutions to the problem of gun violence.
State Sen David Yates is worried that his state will not go back to doing the same thing after the passing of a loved one. I hope that they don’t have to die like many of the other people who were victims of these mass shootings. Maybe something positive can come from it.”
“Too many Americans are paying for the price of inaction with their lives. When will Republicans in Congress act to protect our communities?,” the president said in a tweet.
Old National Bank posted on Facebook that CEO Jim Ryan and other executives were in Louisville on the heels of the shooting.
The company is keeping everyone affected by the tragedy in their thoughts and prayers as it waits for more details, Ryan said in a statement.
One bank employee frantically called her husband as she sheltered inside a locked vault, the husband, Caleb Goodlett told CNN affiiliate WLKY. He said that when he called, police were already aware of the shooting.
She said that he did not hesitate. He ran immediately towards the shooter as he turned his rifle in his direction. The suspect, a bank employee, was shot and killed by the man he was video chatting with.
The gun used in the shooting was an AR-15-style rifle, a federal law enforcement source told CNN. The semi-automatic rifle is the most popular sporting rifle in the US, and 30% of gun owners reported having owned an AR-15 or similar-style rifle, according to the 2021 National Firearms Survey. The Covenant school shooting in Nashville is one of the most heinous mass shootings in recent memory, and it was conducted with the help of the AR-15.
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The bank sits on the fringe of Louisville’s developing downtown business district, state Sen. Gerald Neal, who represents the district where the shooting happened, told CNN. “You wouldn’t really expect anything to happen at this location,” he said.
Despite the shock of the shooting in Kentucky’s most populated city, Neal believes discussions about gun control in the state will still be an “uphill battle.”
One of the shooting victims, bank senior vice president Tommy Elliot, was remembered by several local and state leaders as a close mentor and beloved community leader.
“Tommy was a great man. He cared about finding good people and putting them in positions to do great things. He embraced me when I was very young and interested in politics,” state Sen. David Yates told CNN. He was building people up.
Elliott, 63, was also close friends with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and Greenberg, who said he spent Monday morning at the hospital with Elliott’s wife.
“It is painful, painful for all of the families I know,” Greenberg said while speaking with CNN’s Jake Tapper. It hits home when you know one of the victims.
The others killed will be missed and mourned by their communities, Beshear said.
A Louisville Officer During the Monday Afterglow of an Unarmed Bank Shooting: The Day You Plant The Seed is Not the Day You Eat The Fruit
A Louisville police officer who was sworn in less than two weeks ago is in critical condition after stopping a gunman who opened fire at a downtown bank on Monday.
The city of Louisville was bustling with morning commuters on the Monday after Easter. Interim Police Chief Jacques Gwinn-Villaroel stated that Wilt and his field training officer responded to the scene within three minutes.
But Wilt was struck in the head in the process. He is in a critical condition after brain surgery and was one of the nine people hospitalized after the shooting.
Prior to joining the police force, Wilt worked as an emergency medical technician, an emergency dispatcher and as a local firefighter. He is still employed with Baptist Health on an “as-needed basis,” according to a statement from the hospital.
A statement on his LinkedIn page offers insight into his service mindset: “The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit,” he wrote in the spot where a career biography would normally go.
The Barrick family lost two lives in a shooting that killed five people and injured eight others in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday, Oct. 26, 2015
Three victims who were hospitalized are in stable condition as of Tuesday morning and one is in fair condition. Another four have been discharged. The hospital used more than 170 units of blood to treat the victims, prompting a representative from the Red Cross to call for more donations during a press conference on Tuesday.
Gwinn-Villaroel said there could’ve been more victims, had Wilt and the officer not “taken it upon themselves to not wait to assess everything but just went in to assess the threat so that more lives would not be lost.”
A software engineer, Brandon Tsay, was the one who wrestled the shooter to the ground at the dance hall in Monterey Park, California, just as the shooter had killed 11 people nearby.
The patient with the gunshot wounds has a long road to recovery, according to the University of Louisville Health Chief Medical Officer.
“Our hearts are heavy, they are broken, and we are searching for answers,” they wrote. I need your prayers for the entire Barrick family, including his wife, Jessica, and their two children who are students in our school.
The aunt of the person said she had moved to Louisville from Henderson to begin a new chapter in her life.
Old National Bank in downtown Louisville has a market executive named Tutt who worked there since 2015.
The gunman who killed five people and injured eight others during a shooting in downtown Louisville on Monday bought the AR-15 style rifle used in the attack legally, authorities said Tuesday.
The weapon that was used in the attack was purchased from a dealer in Louisville, according to the Interim Chief of the Louisville Metro Police Department.
Crowell said emergency services received the first call about three minutes after the shooter opened fire, officers arrived on the scene about three minutes after that and police shot and killed Sturgeon three minutes later.
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Several officials made emotional pleas to state and federal legislators to do more to combat the type of deadly gun violence that unfolded in Louisville on Monday.
“I am a person of faith. I was raised in the church. We’ve raised our kids in the church. Please, if you are a person of faith, and you want to give us your thoughts and your prayers, we want them and we need them,” said Rep. Morgan McGarvey, D-Ky.
“But we need policies in place that will keep this from happening again, so that thoughts and prayers do not have to be offered to yet another community ripped apart by the savage violence coming from guns,” he added.
Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg called the level of gun violence “beyond horrific” and said 40 people had already been shot to death in Louisville this year. He said that it’s beyond anything they can do in the community.
“To be honest with you, we barely had to adjust our operating room schedule to be able to do this,” he said. That is how many times we are dealing with gun violence in our community.
Smith said he was “weary” after seeing victims of gun violence at the hospital for all of his 15 years there, and that it can be a drain on the medical professionals who have to tell families that their loved ones have died.
“It just breaks your heart. “When you hear someone screaming’mommy’ or ‘daddy’ it’s hard to do that,” he said.
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“I don’t know what the answers are. But to everyone who helps make policy — at state, city, federal — I would simply ask you to do something. So we have been doing nothing and it is not working.
The images that have emerged in recent weeks of brave police officers selflessly rushing into danger are different from what Americans may be used to seeing on TV. Scenes of police brutality are shown in the police body cam footage that gets the most attention. In the case of the arrest and death of Memphis teenager, Tyre Nichols in January of this year, the release of officer and video footage from the day of the arrest provoked national outrage.
This is a raw, frightening scene, laced with courage and heroism. It offers a reality check about what unfolds in moments of terror and leaves the regular post-massacre political rituals of “thoughts and prayers” and doomed calls for gun reform looking empty by comparison.
It’s important to act quickly. And in a volley of shots, the shooter makes a fatal error, breaking a window in the bank, where four victims already lay dead and one mortally wounded. This gives Galloway a sightline. He shoots and yells, “Get the officer!” referring to Wilt, his trainee, who was shot on only his fourth time out on patrol. He is in a critical condition.
Referring to the bodycam footage, Humphrey said: “I think you can see the tension in that video, you can understand the stress that those officers are going through. The response was not perfect, but it was what we needed.
Law enforcement in America is brutal and tragic. Andrew McCabe, who was the FBI’s deputy director, told CNN on Tuesday that Officer Wilt was struck down because he was trying to protect others.
There is increasing frustration among some police leaders about the risks their officers face while national and state leaders resist changes to gun laws.
The Senate Judiciary Committee was told in June of 2020 that the Phoenix Police Department is outgunned, outmanned, and needs responsible gun legislation.
And Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna told CNN why his officers have to continue to train for active shooter situations. We don’t want that to happen. Statistics tell us it will happen,” he said. “And this is where we do challenge our leaders at a national level, to do more about guns, to do more about mental health so that we don’t have to do this over and over.”
The split screen reminded me of the fact that the state of policing in America is nuanced and that heroism and cruelty exist, even in a country where partisan politics often paints a simplistic impression.
Charles Ramsey, former police chief in Philadelphia and Washington, DC, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that the public needs to see what happened from camera footage as soon as possible. “I think that things have definitely changed in policing,” he said.
The footage showed a different side to the man in Louisville, who live streamed his bank rampage on social media.
Louisville is set to host a vigil Wednesday to let community members grieve the five people killed this week in a downtown bank shooting, as the public absorbs fresh details that investigators are releasing about how the massacre unfolded.
The vigil comes a day after police released dramatic police body camera footage of Monday’s shooting at Old National Bank, in which authorities say a 25-year-old employee opened fire on his colleagues and then engaged in a shootout with police before he was shot dead.
The attacker, livestreaming the gruesome assault online, killed five of his coworkers around 8:30 a.m. in Kentucky’s most populous city, about 30 minutes before the facility was to open, authorities said. A police officer shot in the head was in critical condition and several other people were hospitalized.
It’s still not clear what provoked the shooter to go on the deadly rampage. As an investigation continues, officials expect to release audio Wednesday of 911 calls about the shooting, the mayor said.
The vigil will “acknowledge the wounds, physical and emotional, that gun violence leaves behind,” Greenberg told reporters Tuesday. “It will be an interfaith opportunity for our entire community to come together – to grieve, to heal, to begin to move forward.”
A gunman shoots at a bank worker: No red flag – no red flag from a high school classmate of Sturgeon
The situation went for about nine minutes from the time the man began firing his gun to when he was killed by police.
The gun needs to be loaded and the safety is on if the person wants to shoot her in the back. Once the shooter loads the weapon properly and takes the safety off, he shoots the worker in the back, the official said.
The official said that the attacker continued his rampage by shooting at workers who were trying to run after him. The shooter does not go to other populated floors of the bank, the official said.
A former high school classmate of Sturgeon’s who knew him and his family well said he never saw any “sort of red flag or signal that this could ever happen.”