The rifle used in the Louisville shooting was purchased legally
The Center for Natural Resource Conservation (CALGAR) explains a gunfight with a 25-year-old man outside a downtown bank
Several people are still hospitalized, including a cop who was in a gunfight with the 25-year-old man who went on a shooting spree inside the downtown bank.
About 30 minutes before the bank opens to the public, there was a shooting. Bank staff were holding their morning meeting in a conference room when the shooter opened fire, Buchheit-Sims, the bank manager, said.
She watched in horror as the shooting played out on her computer screen.
One of the 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 victims, who died Monday morning, were identified by police as Joshua Barrick, 40; Juliana Farmer, 45; Tommy Elliott, 63; and James Tutt, 64.
According to a law enforcement source, Sturgeon was informed that he was going to be fired from his job at the bank because of his LinkedIn profile, which showed he had been employed there for close to two years.
There is a note left for his parents which indicates he planned to carry out a shooting at his workplace, but its unclear when the message was found.
The gunman, who was still firing when police arrived, was killed in a shootout with officers, police officials said. One officer who was shot in the head was injured during the gunfire.
The 146th mass shooting this year, which took place on Monday, is according to the Gun Violence Archive, and it continues to strike at the hearts of American communities. It coincides with the two weeks that has passed since a shooting at a Christian school in Tennessee killed six people, prompting a fierce debate between Democratic and Republican state lawmakers over gun control.
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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has ordered flags across the state to fly at half-staff until Friday evening in honor of the victims, but some Democratic lawmakers are concerned that the expressions of grief will come and go without 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. Something positive can come from it.
Many Americans are paying for their actions with their lives. The president asked when Republicans in Congress would act to protect communities.
Jim Ryan, CEO of Old National Bank, and his team were in Louisville on Monday after the shooting, the company said on Facebook.
We are keeping everyone affected by the tragedy and deployed employee assistance support as we await more details, Ryan said that morning.
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 police were aware of the shooting by the time he called.
One of the responding police officers, who was shot in the head when police exchanged gunfire with a shooter Monday morning, was the third patient. Wilt remained in critical condition.
Police say that the gun that the shooter used was purchased locally and legally six days before the attack. There are several recent mass shootings, including a deadly shooting at Nashville school two weeks before.
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.
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“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 a state like that. The effort continues.
“Last year, I survived a workplace shooting. And now yesterday, I’ve lost a very close friend in another workplace shooting,” he said of Tommy Elliot, a senior vice president at the Old National Bank – where a gunman opened fire killing five.
Tommy was a good man. He had an interest in finding good people and putting them in good positions. He embraced me when I was very young and interested in politics,” state senator Yates told CNN. He was lifting people up.
Elliot was also close friends with Gov. Beshear and Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg, who said he spent Monday morning at the hospital with Elliot’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 because of the fact that one of the victims is close to you.
Beshear said that there were others who were killed who would be missed and mourned by their communities.
The Louisville Mayor says he is sorry for the shooting of a bank shooter in April 4. He’s afraid of the gunman, but he can’t do that
A gunman killed five people and injured at least eight more at a bank in downtown Louisville on Monday. The Mayor of the city says it’s absurd and dangerous that the rifle used in the shooting will go back into circulation.
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.
At the Tuesday news conference, several officials made emotional pleas to state and federal legislators to do more to combat the kind of deadly gun violence that unfolded in Louisville on Monday.
I’m a person of faith. My family was members of the church. The kids have been raised in the church. If you are a person of faith and want to give our thoughts and prayers, we need them,” 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 believe Louisville should have more freedom to figure out what to do to reduce gun violence since the city has a unique gun violence epidemic.
“To be honest with you, we barely had to adjust our operating room schedule to be able to do this,” he said. “That’s how frequent we are having to deal 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 breaks your heart. “It just becomes hard day in and day out to be able to do that when you hear someone screaming,” he said.
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“I don’t know what the answers are. I would just ask you to do something to help make policy. We’ve been doing nothing because it’s not working.
Following that shooting, Greenberg detailed the incident to CNN’s John Berman, saying, “We asked if we could help him. And he pulled out a gun, aimed it directly at me and opened fire.”
“We have to take action now. We need short term action to end the gun violence epidemic so less people die on our streets, in our banks, and in our schools. And for that, we need help. We need help from our friends in Frankfurt and help from our friends in Washington, DC,” the mayor added.
Greenberg told CNN that he would be meeting with local legislators from both sides of the aisle in order to discuss what could be done together.
Greenberg told a news conference that nobody has the right to not have a connection to gun violence at some point.
Brown was indicted by a grand jury in Kentucky last year for attempted murder and first degree wanton endangerment after shooting at Greenberg.
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“I was fortunate that one of my brave teammates slammed the door shut. The suspect fled when they threw 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 ran on a platform that prioritized public safety, justice and affordable housing as well as making Louisville a better place to live.
“We must improve public safety, to make it a safer city for all of our residents, for everyone that’s visiting here and there’s so much that we can and must do,” Greenberg told Spectrum News 1 before his November victory.
A trained lawyer, Greenberg is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Harvard Law School, according to his bio. He is also a co-owner of Ohio Valley Wrestling.
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. There are scenes of police brutality in the police body camera footage that is often the most watched. The release of officer and video footage from the January arrest of Memphis police officer who beat and killed 15-year-old boy, who was later found to be brain dead, triggered national outrage.
Video of what is effectively a street battle more akin to a foreign war zone than a US city basking in the morning sunshine offers a visceral antidote to the collective national shoulder shrug that often follows gun massacres.
Acting quickly is critical. Four people were killed and one mortally wounded when the shooter broke a window at the bank and shot them in the head. This gives Galloway a sightline. He shoots and yells to the officer to get him. His first time out on patrol was when he was shot by another person. He’s in the hospital in critical condition.
Humphrey said he could see the tension in the video and understand the stress that the officers were going through. (The) response wasn’t perfect, but it was exactly the response we needed.”
“It’s just a tragic and brutal aspect of law enforcement in America. Andrew McCabe, a former FBI deputy director, told Anderson Cooper on Tuesday that officers try to do their job, but are struck down in the process of trying to protect others.
Police leaders are frustrated that national and state leaders are not willing to change gun laws.
In June of 2022, the Phoenix police chief told the Senate Judiciary Committee that they were outgunned, out-manned 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 is a reminder that while partisan politics often paints a simple impression of the state of policing in America, heroism and cruelty co-exist and reality is nuanced.
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.
The gun used to kill five people in Kentucky is part of a Kentucky law that’s supposed to prevent it from coming back to 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 wrong. That is absurd. That is dangerous. And so hopefully everyone, regardless of party affiliation, agrees that this weapon should never be back on the street and we can work together to change that law.
I’m cautiously optimistic today. First, I know that my friends of all political parties agree that they never want to see harm like this happen ever again, to anyone, whether it’s in Louisville and Kentucky, or anywhere in America or this world. And so I’m hopeful. I’m optimistic that we can work together to address our differences, based on some of the outreach I’ve had in the past 24 hours.
