Shootout with a 25-year-old employee at a downtown bank, according to an employee’s wife, in the Louisville Metro Police Department

Authorities said a 25-year-old employee of Old National Bank had opened fire on his colleagues Monday morning as they gathered for a meeting before the bank opened its doors. The bank’s manager said she witnessed the shooting virtually as the meeting was being streamed (officials said the gunman separately streamed the attack online).

The gunman, who was still firing when police arrived, was killed in a shootout with officers, police officials said. At least two officers, including one who was shot in the head, were injured during the gunfire.

As Louisville investigators piece together what led up to a mass shooting inside a downtown bank that left five people dead, several victims remain hospitalized, including a police officer in critical condition after a shootout with the 25-year-old gunman.

The Louisville Metro Police Department responded to a fight at a bank on East Main Street. Officers were on scene in minutes, police said.

A large police presence in the area as well as shattered glass at the entrance of Old National Bank is shown in a video from the scene taken by CNN affiliate WDRB.

The bank employee hid in a locked vault and called her husband as she frantically called, according to the husband. By the time he called 911, police were already aware of the shooting, he said.

“I saw people running and then some others got out (of) their car and began to run as well,” Curd said. I heard police tell people there was a shooting and to back away from the bank.

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The Louisville metro area has a population of more than 600,000 people as of the 2020 Census. A bank, dentist’s office, furniture store and the Louisville Ballet can be found on the 300 block of East Main Street.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said in a tweet he was headed to the scene of the shooting. He asked for prayers for families impacted and the city of Louisville.

Buchheit-Sims watched in shock as the shooting played out on her screen, saying the incident happened very quickly.

Deana Eckert was one of the people who were hospitalized and died later Monday, though it’s not certain if she was among the others in critical condition.

The four other victims, who all died on Monday morning, are identified by police as Joshua Barrick, 40, Jimmy Tutt, 64, and Tommy.

Sturgeon, whose LinkedIn profile showed he had interned at the bank for three summers and been employed there full-time for close to two years, had been notified that he was going to be fired from his job at the bank, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation.

The source said a note had been left by the man for his friends and family which indicated he was going to commit a shooting at his workplace.

Monday is the 146th mass shooting of the year, and it strikes at the heart of American communities when people think of such tragedies. It also falls exactly two weeks after three children and three adults were killed in a shooting at a Christian school in neighboring Tennessee, fueling a fierce fight between Democratic and Republican state lawmakers over gun control.

The Louisville Old National Bank CEO, CEO Jim Ryan, and the Los Angeles Police Department responded to the Beshear shooting at half-staff

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.

“This isn’t about partisan politics. This is about life and death. This is being done out of an attempt to prevent tragedies. You may think this will never happen to you, never happen to any of your friends or loved ones. I used to think that way. The sad truth is that now no one in our city, no one in our state, no one in our country has that luxury anymore,” he continued.

“Too many Americans are paying for the price of inaction with their lives. The president asked when Republicans in Congress would act to protect communities.

Members of the Old National Bank executive team, including CEO Jim Ryan, were in Louisville Monday on the heels of the shooting, the company said on Facebook.

As we await more information,Ryan said in a statement that they were sending employee assistance support and keeping everyone affected by it in their thoughts and prayers.

The shooting began around 8:30 a.m., police said, about 30 minutes before the bank opens to the public. The bank’s manager said that staff were holding their morning meeting in the conference room when the shooter opened fire.

The third patient was Officer Nickolas Wilt, one of the responding police officers who was shot in the head Monday morning when police exchanged gunfire with the shooter. The patient remained in critical condition.

The gunman, according to police, used an AR-15-style weapon that was purchased locally and legally six days before the attack. The rifle has been used in a number of mass shootings including a deadly shooting at a Nashville school two weeks before.

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There is no state that is friendly to those who would like to see gun reform or gun control in a reasonable way, as you might consider. This is not that state. However, the effort continues.”

Several local and state leaders remembered one of the shooting victims as a close mentor and beloved community leader, who was a bank senior vice president.

Tommy was a man of great integrity. He cared about finding good people and putting them in positions to do great things. He embraced me when I was very young and interested in politics,” state senator Yates told CNN. “He was about lifting people up, building them 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.

He said that the shooting feels particularly painful for all of the families he knows, and it just hits home when he knows one of the victims.

Beshear called the other people who were killed amazing people and said they would be missed and mourned by their communities.

Authorities said the attacker in the downtown Louisville shooting that left five people and 8 other people injured bought the legal version of the rifle.

The Interim Chief of the Louisville Metro Police Department said that a Louisville dealer had sold the weapon six days before the attack.

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.

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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 am a person of faith. I was raised in the church. We’ve raised our kids in the church. If you are a person of faith, please come and give us your thoughts and prayers because we need them, said House Speaker 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.

Forty people have been killed by guns so far this year in Louisville, Greenberg said Tuesday, delivering an impassioned plea for state and federal government to take action on gun violence or to cede that power to the city.

The emergency room of the University of Louisville Health sees a lot of shooting victims in a day, according to the hospital’s chief medical officer.

“We didn’t have to change the operating room schedule at all to be able to do this,” he said. That is how many times we are dealing 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. When you hear someone screaming ‘mommy’ or ‘daddy,’ it just becomes too hard day in and day out to be able to do that,” he said.

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“I don’t know what the answers are. To everyone who helps make policy at the state, city, federal and so on I would just ask to do something. Because doing nothing, which is what we’ve been doing, is not working.”

Following that shooting, Greenberg detailed the incident to CNN’s John Berman, saying, “We asked if we could help him. He pointed a gun at me and opened fire.

“We have to take action now. We need to take immediate action to end this gun violence epidemic so fewer people are killed in our streets, in our banks, and in our schools. And for that, we need help. The mayor said that they need assistance from their friends in Washington, DC.

The man who was shot and killed in the bank was on the verge of being fired, according to a law enforcement source.

Greenberg told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday that he had spoken with several local lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and planned to meet with them formally in the coming days to “talk about what we can do together.”

Greenberg, speaking during a news conference earlier Tuesday on the bank shooting, said that nobody has the “luxury” of thinking they won’t have a connection to gun violence at some point in their life.

Last year, a Kentucky grand jury indicted Quintez Brown, the man accused of shooting at Greenberg, on charges of attempted murder and first-degree wanton endangerment.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/11/politics/craig-greenberg-louisville-kentucky-mayor-shooting/index.html

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“I was fortunate that one of my brave teammates slammed the door shut. They were able to throw some desks on top of the door and the suspect fled. So, we are very blessed to be here today. All of us on the team are,” he said at the time on “New Day.”

The platform that Greenberg ran on was that of public safety, justice, affordable housing, strengthening education, jobs and making Louisville green.

Greenberg told Spectrum News 1 before his win that the city needed to improve public safety and make it a better place to live in.

Greenberg graduated from both the University of Michigan and the Harvard Law School, according to his bio. He co-owns Ohio Valley Wrestling and helped launch 21c Museum Hotels, which is a regional chain of hotels and contemporary art museums.