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(AP/Breitbart) The Louisville Metropolitan Police Department (LMPD) confirmed that five people were killed after a suspect opened fire inside Louisville, Kentucky’s, Old National Bank Monday morning.
UPDATE:A 23-year-old bank employee armed with a rifle opened fire at his Louisville workplace Monday morning, killing four people — including a close friend of the governor — while livestreaming the attack, authorities said.
“Let’s be clear about what this was,” Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said. “This was an evil act of targeted violence.”
The shooting, the 15th mass killing in the country this year, comes just two weeks after a former student killed three children and three adults at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, about 160 miles (260 kilometers) to the south. That state’s governor and his wife also had friends killed in that shooting.
Police arrived as shots were still being fired inside Old National Bank and killed the shooter in an exchange of gunfire, Louisville Metro Police Department Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said at a news conference.
“The suspect shot at officers,” the police chief said. “We then returned fire and stopped that threat.”
The chief identified the shooter as Connor Sturgeon, who she said was livestreaming during the attack.
“That’s tragic to know that that incident was out there and captured,” she said. “We’re hopeful that we can have that incident removed, that footage removed.”
LMPD said police received an alert of shots fired at the bank around 8:30 a.m. When officers arrived on the scene they heard shots being fired. They entered the bank and found the attacker was dead.
Six people were injured and have been transported to a hospital. An officer is one of the six injured individuals.
WLKY spoke to a witness to the police response who stressed that LMPD entered the building immediately upon arrival.
A 23-year-old bank employee armed with a rifle opened fire at his workplace Monday morning, killing four people — including a close friend of the governor — before being shot by police, authorities said.
