Old National Bank shooting – After reacting to a gunshot incident that occurred inside the Old National Bank in downtown Louisville on Monday morning, Louisville Metro Police stated that there were “multiple casualties.” According to the police, there have been five fatalities, including the alleged shooter. There are nine people that have been hurt. There are two police officers among those who have been injured. At this time, surgery is being performed on the cop who is in serious condition in order to treat him.
Two police officers injured
It is anticipated that the other will live. According to UofL Health, at least three of the injured individuals have been released from the hospital. Connor Sturgeon, age 23, who worked at the Old National Bank, has been named as the suspect in this case. According to Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel of the LMPD, the individual who committed the act of mass shooting utilized a rifle. According to the police, the suspect was broadcasting the gunshot live on a social networking site.
She was able to identify the victims as Tommy Elliott, 63, James Tutt, 64, Joshua Barrick, 40, and Juliana Farmer, 57. All of the fatalities were bank workers. Nickolas Wilt, 26, an LMPD officer, is one of the three victims who are still in serious condition. He was hit by a bullet to the head and is one of the nine people who were injured. According to Villaroel, he recently finished his training at the police academy on March 31. She reported that the brain surgery had been completed, but he is still in a serious condition.
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Joseph T. Wesbecker, a 47-year-old pressman, carried out the shooting at his former company, Standard Gravure, on September 14, 1989, in Louisville, Kentucky. He killed eight people and injured twelve others before taking his own life. The incident is known as the Standard Gravure shooting. This is the deadliest mass shooting that has ever occurred in the state of Kentucky. Following the murders, a high-profile lawsuit was filed against Eli Lilly and Company, the makers of the antidepressant medication Prozac, which Wesbecker had started taking one month before to going on his shooting rampage. The lawsuit was brought about as a result of the murders.
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