Nickolas was a police officer in Louisville when he was shot in the head
The firefighter killed a Louisville cop on Monday after stopping a gunman at a bank: A news conference with the Louisville Metro Police Department
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.
An officer with the Louisville Metro Police Department is in a hospital in critical but stable condition after having brain surgery, according to an interim chief. He was struck in the head during a shootout with the gunman in the bank, she said during a news conference.
The officer arrived three minutes after he was dispatched and found the man still firing inside the bank. Police got into a shootout with the gunman, killing him, Gwinn-Villaroel said.
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. The victims included a close friend of Gov. Andy Beshear, who he credited with helping him both professionally and in his personal life.
Of the nine people injured, three are hospitalized in critical condition – including Wilt – three are in non-critical condition and three have been released, the chief said.
“I paid a visit to his academy class that was there at the hospital offering to support him, offering the support to he and his family today,” the mayor said.
It was 8:38 a.m. local time on the Monday after Easter and downtown Louisville was bustling with morning commuters. Interim Police Chief Gwinn-Villaroel said that the scene was responded to by Wilt and his officer in three minutes.
She added that Wilt “did not hesitate.” He ran towards the shooter as he turned his rifle towards him. The suspect, a 25-year-old bank employee who livestreamed the violence, was killed by Calloway.
The rookies from the academy paid a visit to the mayor. The 26-year-old graduated from the police academy on Mar. 31.
Before becoming a police officer, he was an emergency medical technician, an emergency dispatch person and a local firefighter. He is still employed with Baptist Health on an “as-needed basis,” according to a statement from the hospital.
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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 victims who were hospitalized as of Tuesday morning are stable, while one was in fair condition. Four more have been let go. The Red Cross will be holding a press conference on Tuesday to call for donations after the hospital had to use more than 170 units of blood to treat the victims.
“If they hadn’t taken it upon themselves to not wait to assess everything but just go in to assess the threat, more lives would not be lost,” said Gwinn-Villaroel.
A man was dead and a woman was hospitalized on Monday after a shooter opened fire at a college campus just a couple of blocks from Old National Bank. The two incidents were completely unrelated, officials said.
More than 11,600 people have lost their lives to gun violence in the U.S. since the start of 2023, according to the Gun Violence Archive. One in six people say they’ve personally seen a shooting in the US.
In California, a 26-year-old software engineer, Brandon Tsay, wrestled a shooter to the ground at a dance hall in Monterey Park without knowing the gunman had just killed 11 people nearby.
Source: https://www.npr.org/2023/04/11/1169219029/nickolas-wilt-louisville-shooting-police-hero-cop
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