The Surgical Shootout at Old National Bank in Louisville, Tenn., killed in a Live-streaming Event on Monday, Jan. 21
It wasn’t uncommon for the emergency room to see that many gunshot victims in a single day, according to the University of Louisville Health chief medical officer.
The gunman, identified by police as employee Connor Sturgeon, was livestreaming online as he carried out the shooting at Old National Bank, officials said. The manager at the bank told CNN that the man opened fire inside the conference room during the staff meeting.
The shooting at the meeting happened very quickly, and Buchheit-Sims was in horror as she watched on her computer screen.
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 people who died on Monday morning were identified by police as Joshua Barrick, 40; Tommy Elliot, 63; and James Tutt, 64.
A law enforcement source familiar with the investigation says he was informed that he was going to be fired from his job at the bank, despite having been employed there for close to two years.
The source said that a note was left for his parents and a friend, but it is not known when the message was found.
A law enforcement source told CNN that the shooter, who was killed in a police shootout, had been on the brink of being terminated when he entered the bank with a rifle.
The Gun Violence Archive says that Monday’s shooting is the 146th mass shooting this year in America, which continues to strike at the hearts of communities. In Tennessee, where four people were killed in a school shooting two weeks ago, there was a fierce fight between democrats and republicans over gun control.
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Some Democratic lawmakers in Kentucky are concerned that the expressions of grief will be meaningless unless there are some meaningful gun violence solutions.
“My worry is that everybody will raise their fists in anger and mourn and then in six weeks, eight weeks we go back to doing the same – nothing,” state Sen. David Yates told CNN Monday. “I hope that they all don’t have to die in vain like so many of the other 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.
On the Old National Bank’s Facebook page, the company said that CEO Jim Ryan was in Louisville Monday on the heels of the shooting.
Ryan said that they were sending employee assistance help and keeping everyone affected by the tragedy in their thoughts and prayers.
One bank employee frantically called her husband as she sheltered inside a locked vault, the husband, Caleb Goodlett told CNN affiiliate WLKY. He said police were already aware of the shooting when he called.
A Louisville bank senior vice president mourned by a shooting victim, Jesselyn Gwinn-Villaroel,
Nickolas Wilt, a 26-year-old rookie officer, ran toward the gunfire and was shot in the head, interim Louisville Metro Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said. He had graduated from the police academy just 10 days before the shooting.
The attacker used an weapon that was legally purchased six days before the attack, according to police. The AR-15 and its offshoots have been used in several recent mass shootings, including a deadly shooting at Nashville school two weeks before.
The bank sits on the fringes of Louisville’s downtown business district and is where the shooting happened, according to a state senator. He said that there wouldn’t be anything to happen at the location.
“This is not a state that’s friendly to those who would think about gun reform … or gun control in some way or even reasonable, as you might consider, gun steps that we could take in terms of restricting them. This is not that state. However, the effort continues.”
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 put good people in positions to do great things. He embraced me when I was very young and interested in politics,” state senator Yates told CNN. He was going to build them up.
Governor Beshear and Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg both said they spent Monday morning at the hospital with Elliot’s wife.
While speaking with Jake Tapper, Greenberg said it was a painful experience for all of the families he knew. “It just hits home in a unique way when you know one of the victims so well.”
Beshear remembered Elliot an “incredible friend” and also called the others who were killed “amazing people” who will be missed and mourned by their communities.
The Louisville, Kentucky, man who shot and killed 5 people and injured 8 in the early hours of April 4th, 2017, is a person of faith, and we need to act now
Authorities said the man who killed 5 people and injured 8 others in downtown Louisville on Monday bought the gun legally.
Connor Sturgeon purchased the weapon from a Louisville dealer on April 4 — six days before the attack — according to Louisville Metro Police Department Interim Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel.
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.
Several officials made emotional pleas at the Tuesday news conference for the state and federal legislators to take action against the type of gun violence that occurred in Louisville on Monday.
“I am a person of faith. I was a member of the church. We’ve raised our kids in the church. “If you are a person of faith, please let us know and we need you,” said Rep. Morgan McGarvey.
“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.
I think Louisville should have the freedom to figure out what it wants to do to reduce gun violence.
“To be honest with you, we barely had to adjust the operating room schedule,” he said. “That’s how often we deal with gun violence in our community.”
Smith had been a patient at the hospital for 15 years, and he was tired after seeing so many victims of gun violence there.
“It just breaks your heart. When you hear someone screaming ‘mommy’ or ‘daddy,’ it just becomes too hard day in and day out to be able to do that,” he said.
“What do we want to do about gun violence in Frankfurt”, Greenberg told the media at a news conference on Tuesday, April 24 reopened after the shooting
“I don’t know what the answers are. I would just ask you to do something if you help make policy at the state, city, federal. Because doing nothing, which is what we’ve been doing, is not working.”
The Democratic mayoral candidate was the target of a shooting at his campaign headquarters last year. CNN reported that a round appeared to hit his clothing in the shooting, however he was not injured.
“We have to take action now. We need short-term action now so that fewer people are killed by guns in our streets, banks and schools. We need help for that. We need help from our friends in Frankfurt and help from our friends in Washington, DC,” the mayor added.
On Tuesday, Greenberg said he was going to meet with several local lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and that he would talk about what could be done together.
Greenberg, speaking during a news conference earlier Tuesday on the bank shooting, said that nobody has the “luxury” of thinking they won’t have a connection to gun violence at some point in their life.
A Kentucky grand jury indicted Brown for attempted murder and first degree wanton endangerment in connection with the shooting of Greenberg.
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“I was fortunate that one of my brave teammates slammed the door shut. The suspect fled when they threw some desks on top of the door. So, we are very blessed to be here today. All of us on the team are,” he said at the time on “New Day.”
Greenberg’s platform prioritized public safety, justice,affordable housing, strengthened education, jobs and making Louisville green as he ran for office.
Greenberg told Spectrum News 1 that they needed to improve public safety, make it a safer city for all of our residents, and everyone that was visiting here.
A trained lawyer, Greenberg is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Harvard Law School, according to his bio. He helped launch 21c Museum Hotels, a regional “multi-venue” contemporary art museum and hotel chain, and is a co-owner of Ohio Valley Wrestling.
The bravery of police officers and the way they go into danger are vastly different than what Americans may be used to seeing. The police bodycam footage that’s often gained the most attention has shown just the opposite – with scenes of police brutality. The release of the terrible officer and video footage from the January arrest of the Memphis man, who died later in the hospital, triggered national outrage.
This is a raw, frightening scene, laced with courage and heroism. It offers a reality check about what will happen when there are moments of terror and leaves politicians without a moral compass in the aftermath of mass atrocities.
It’s critical that you 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, “I think he’s down … get the officer!” referring to Wilt, his trainee, who was shot on only his fourth time out on patrol. He’s in the hospital in critical condition.
That video was amazing, you saw it. The video was released by Paul Humphrey, who is a deputy Louisville Police Chief.
“It’s just a tragic and brutal aspect of law enforcement in America. Andrew, who was a deputy director of the FBI, said on CNN that he believes that officer Wilt was struck down in the course of 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 by the Phoenix Police Chief that they were outgunned and needed 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 it 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 reminds us that heroism and cruelty co-exist and reality is not all it’s cracked up to be.
Former Philadelphia and Washington, DC, police chief Charles Ramsey told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that authorities had learned about the need to show the public what happened from camera footage as quickly as possible. “I think that things have definitely changed in policing,” he said.
But the footage formed a heroic counterpoint to the depraved behavior of the shooter in Louisville, who live streamed on social media his rampage inside the bank.
Under Kentucky law, if an assault rifle is used to murder five people, and then used to lay in wait and shoot at police officers who come to the scene, it will be back on the streets. Because right now under Kentucky law, confiscated guns are required to be turned over to the state who in turn is required to auction off these weapons. That is not correct. That is absurd. That is very dangerous. Hopefully everyone, regardless of party affiliation, agrees that this weapon shouldn’t be returned to the streets and we can change the law to do so.
I am cautiously optimistic today. I am aware that my friends from all of the political parties agree that we don’t want to see this happen again in Louisville and Kentucky or anywhere in America or this world. And so I’m hopeful. And based on some of the outreach that I’ve had over the past 24 hours since I called for this change, I am hopeful that we can sit down and work together and talk about our differences on these issues.