A lone gunman stormed a bank in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday morning, killing four people and injuring eight others before dying in a confrontation with police.
Officials later identified the suspect as Connor Sturgeon, 23.
Sturgeon worked as a summer intern for the bank for three consecutive years, eventually joining as a commercial development professional in 2021 and a full-time associate and portfolio banker last year, according to his LinkedIn account.
The Louisville Metro Police Department said Sturgeon entered the bank at 8:30 a.m., before it had opened to the public, and started firing.
Witnesses said they spotted Sturgeon with a “long assault rifle” firing several shots on the first floor of the bank building.
Sturgeon, who was live streaming his attack on Instagram, was shot and killed by police after he aimed his rifle at them, police chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said at a Monday afternoon press conference.
Sturgeon had been told he was going to be fired from the bank, according to CNN, who also reported he had left a note for his parents and a friend saying he was going to shoot up the bank.
Rickey Readus, a Louisville resident, told The Post how employees ran out to find shelter at nearby businesses.
Others who were inside the bank said they took shelter in conference rooms and bathrooms as soon as they heard the gunfire.
“The bathrooms on our floor have keycode entry, so it was probably the safest place we could think of to hide,” employee Tammy Madigan told the Daily Beast. “So the six of us went into the men’s room, turned off all the sound on our phones, tried to be as quiet as we could.”
LMPD Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey said police arrived quickly, clearing the streets and confronting the gunman inside. He said the responding officers exchanged fire with the gunman.
“Ultimately that suspect did die at the scene,” he said. “We are trying to confirm if that suspect did die of a self-inflicted gunshot wound or was killed by officers at this time.”
Madigan said that after the shooter’s death, police ushered the remaining employees out of the building, where some were able to see Sturgeon’s body on the first floor.
It is currently unclear if he took his own life or was shot by police.
University of Louisville Hospital confirmed it received nine patients following the shooting, including two police officers and seven civilians.
One of the officers was reported to be in critical condition.
The hospital said at least three patients have been discharged, but did not disclose the conditions of the other injured victims.
Sturgeon was a graduate of the University of Alabama, where he earned a master of science in finance in 2020.
His father, Todd, is notably a former boys basketball coach at the University of Indianapolis, leading the team from 1992 to 2007 in five NCAA tournament appearances.The father is now a US history teacher at Floyd Central High School in Indiana, which Sturgeon also attended.
Sturgeon was an all-round athlete, playing basketball, football and running track at school, according to an old classmate.
The classmate, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Daily Beast Sturgeon wore a helmet while playing due to multiple concussions he suffered while playing football.
“We played football together in eighth grade. He was out most of the year because he had multiple concussions,” he said. “Then he had a couple more in high school.”
A photo from Sturgeon’s junior year at Floyd Central High showed him wearing a helmet at a basketball game where he scored nearly half the team’s points.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/10/everything-we-know-about-the-louisville-bank-shooter/
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