Four people were killed and eight more were hurt, including two police officers, in a shooting outside of a bank in Louisville, Kentucky by suspect Connor Sturgeon, know about his family and parents
The suspect Connor Sturgeon, who was a former worker at the Old National Bank, was killed in the event. Here is all you need to know about the incident.
Reports say that Connor Sturgeon walked into the bank at 8:45 a.m. on Monday and started shooting before the bank opened to the public. People saw Sturgeon on the first floor of the bank before he started shooting with a “long assault rifle.” When the shooting happened, employees who were in the bank tried to hide in bathrooms and meeting rooms.
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Sturgeon wrote a note to his parents and a friend indicating that he was going to open fire in the bank, the law enforcement source said but is not clear whether that note was on paper or emailed, or whether it was seen before the incident or after, according to the source.
Sturgeon wrote on his LinkedIn profile that he interned at Old National Bank in Louisville for three consecutive summers between 2018 and 2020 before joining full time in June, 2021.
Sturgeon graduated from the University of Alabama in December 2020, according to a spokesperson for the university and participated in an accelerated master’s program and earned both his bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in finance at the same time.
Earlier, Sturgeon played basketball and ran track for his high school in a Louisville suburb, and he was named a semifinalist for a National Merit Scholarship in 2015.
The gunman’s father, Todd Sturgeon, was head coach of the men’s basketball team at the University of Indianapolis for 10 years and later coached basketball and taught US history at his son’s high school, according to news reports and his LinkedIn profile and 2007 story published by Todd Sturgeon’s alma mater, DePauw University, quoted an Indianapolis Star article about his retirement from the University of Indianapolis that year, in which he said his son Connor inspired him to step down from the team.
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JUST IN: Louisville mass shooter identified as Connor Sturgeon, who identified as a He/Him.
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The cops who were sent to help got there quickly and started fighting with the shooter. One of the injured cops is in very bad shape. It is still not clear if Connor Sturgeon killed himself by shooting himself or if police killed him.
Investigation underway to determine Connor Sturgeon’s motive behind shooting
A probe is going on to find out why Connor Sturgeon shot the man. Sturgeon was a summer intern at the Old National Bank for three years before he became an associate and portfolio banker there full-time in 2022. In 2020, he graduated from the University of Alabama with a Master of Science in Finance.
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Connor Sturgeon is responsible for the Louisville bank mass shooting, killing five and injuring nine people.
Sturgeon called a friend prior to the attack and told that he is going to kill everyone in the bank. pic.twitter.com/dmvjBPfmE0— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) April 10, 2023
The shooting has left the people of Louisville shocked and sad. Rickey Readus, who lives in Louisville, said that the bank workers who were outside the bank ran and took refuge in nearby businesses. He also said that one of the employees knew the suspect.
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A worker named Tammy Madigan told The Daily Beast, “The bathrooms on our floor have keycode entry, so it was probably the safest place we could think of to hide. So the six of us went into the men’s room, turned off all the sound on our phones, and tried to be as quiet as we could.”
Authorities are still looking into what led to the pointless act of violence, and the investigation is still going on. The shooting has shocked and saddened the people of Louisville, and our thoughts are with the victims and their families at this hard time.