According to officials, five people were kἰlled, including a personal friend of Kentucky’s governor, when a bank employee in Louisville with a rifle opened fire at his office on Monday morning (10 April). The sh00ter live-streamed the cɼime on Instagram, they added.
According to Louisville Metro Police Department Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel, officers engaged the sh00ter in a gunfight after arriving just as sh0ts were still fired inside Old National Bank. The city’s mayor, Craig Greenberg, called the attack “an evil act of targeted vἰolence.”
The sh00ting, the 15th mass murdeɼ in the nation this year, occurred barely two weeks after a former pupil at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, some 160 miles (260 kilometers) to the south, murdeɼed three children and three adults. The governor of that state and his wife also lost acquaintances in that sh00ting.
The chief in Louisville named the sh00ter Connor Sturgeon, 25, who she claimed was live-streaming the attack (According to NBC News)
“That’s tragic to know that that incident was out there and captured,” she said.
Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, said that it had (as reported by Economic Times)
“quickly removed the livestream of this tragic incident this morning.”
Over the past few years, social media companies have implemented stricter regulations to outlaw vἰolent and extremist content. Yet, disturbing content like the Louisville sh00ting keeps slipping through, leading politicians and other critics to lambast the technology sector for its lax security measures and moderation practices.
The attacker started firing with a long rifle in a conference room in the rear of the first level of the building, a guy who left the building during the sh00ting told WHAS-TV. He told the news station, pointing to his shirt. He said he fled to a break room and shut the door:
“Whoever was next to me got shot — blood is on me from it.”
According to Heather Fountaine, a University of Louisville Hospital spokesman, nine persons, including two police officers, were treated for ἰnjuries. Police announced Monday night (10 April) that Deana Eckert, 57, one of the ἰnjured, later dἰed.
Nickolas Wilt, a 26-year-old wounded cop, received his diploma from the police school on March 31. After being sh0t in the head and undergoing surgery, he was in serious condition, according to the police chief. At least three patients had already been let go. According to Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, the sh00ting claimed one of his closest friends (According to Yahoo)
Tommy Elliott helped me build my law career, helped me become governor, gave me advice on being a good dad,” said Beshear, his voice shaking with emotion. “He’s one of the people I talked to most in the world, and very rarely were we talking about my job. He was an incredible friend.”
According to investigators, Josh Barrick, Jim Tutt, and Juliana Farmer were also kἰlled in the sh00ting:
“These are irreplaceable, amazing individuals that a terrible act of violence tore from all of us,” the governor said.
Outside the bank’s entrance and not far from Waterfront Park and the minor league ballgame Louisville Slugger Field, crime scene investigators could be seen photographing and labeling multiple bullet holes in the windows.
Police converged on the suspect’s area, located approximately 5 miles (8 kilometers) south of the downtown sh00ting, as part of the investigation. While federal and local officials spoke with residents, the street was shut. Caution tape was used to isolate one residence.
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It’s unsettling to have lived on the same street as someone who could do such a thing, said Kami Cooper, a local who doesn’t remember ever meeting the suspect (as reported by Courant)
“I’m almost speechless. You see it on the news but not at home,” Cooper said. “It’s unbelievable, it could happen here, somebody on my street.”
According to deputy police chief Paul Humphrey, the responding police officers unquestionably saved lives (According to CBS News)
“This is a tragic event,” he said. “But it was the heroic response of officers that made sure that no more people were more seriously injured than what happened.”
A few hours later, a community college was on the scene of a separate incident that left one guy dead and one woman wounded, according to a mass kἰllings database by The Associated Press, USA Today, and Northeastern University in collaboration.
This year’s 15 mass sh00tings are the most in the first 100 days of a calendar year since 2009, when 16 had happened by April 10. Later in 2009, when 32 mass murders were reported, the pace slowed.
The years with the most mass kἰllings since 2006, the first year for which data has been kept, were 2019 and 2022, with 45 and 42 mass kἰllings documented over the entire calendar year. After taking office as governor, Beshear has personally experienced a major tragedy twice.
Dawson Springs, the hometown of Steve Beshear, a former two-term governor of Kentucky, was one of the towns decimated by tornadoes that ripped through Kentucky in late 2021. Andy Beshear made many trips to Dawson Springs as a child and has spoken movingly about where his father was born.
AP Technology writer Michael Liedtke in San Ramon, California, database journalist Larry Fenn, researchers Rhonda Shafner and Jennifer Farrar in New York, and Becky Reynolds in Louisville, Bruce Schreiner in Frankfort, Kentucky, Beatrice Dupuy in New York, all contributed to this report.
Based on data from the authorities, an earlier version had Deana Eckert’s name spelled incorrectly. If you want to be the first to know about breaking news and other recent developments, you should follow us on Twitter.
