Louisville bank shooting latest: Body cam shows police confronting Connor Sturgeon as parents break silence

Louisville became the latest US city rocked by gun violence this week when an employee gunned down five colleagues inside a bank before being shot dead by responding police officers.

Officers responded to the scene within minutes and exchanged gunfire with the gunman, who was ultimately shot dead.

Four victims died on the scene, before a fifth died in hospital later on Monday.

The victims, all executives at the bank, have been identified as: Tommy Elliott, 63, Jim Tutt, 64, Josh Barrick, 40, Juliana Farmer, 57, and Deana Eckert, 57.

The mass shooter took just one minute to carry out horror attack, where he killed five bank colleagues and wounded another eight victims.

Connor Sturgeon, 25, opened fire inside Old National Bank in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday morning, livestreaming the shooting on Instagram.

A Louisville city official described the livestream to CNN, revealing that the gunman’s attack on his colleagues lasted only around one minute.

He then sat in the lobby area appearing to wait for police officers to arrive.

After about a minute and half, officers arrived and gunfire was exchanged.

The shooting unfolded at around 8.30am on Monday morning when Connor Sturgeon entered the bank armed with an AR-15-style rifle.

Bank manager Rebecca Buchheit-Sims was quoted as saying by CNN that the executives were gathered in a first-floor conference room in the building for their morning meeting.

She had joined the meeting remotely on Microsoft Teams.

The meeting was in full flow when she says she saw Sturgeon burst into the room and open fire on the staff members.

“I witnessed people being murdered. I don’t know how else to say that,” she said.

“I’m just as much in shock and disbelief and was in disbelief as I watched it unravel.”

As well as the attack being captured on the Teams call, Sturgeon was livestreaming his shooting rampage online.

Louisville mass shooter Connor Sturgeon allegedly shot a woman in the back as she fled the gunfire, according to a report.

A Louisville city official told CNN that Sturgeon entered the Old National Bank and was greeted with a “good morning” from a female worker inside.

The 25-year-old shooter responded by telling her: “You need to get out of here.”

As the woman turned to flee, the gunman tried to shoot her.

His first attempt to shoot the woman failed because he still had the safety latch on the AR-15 and it wasn’t loaded, the official said.

He then removed the safety and loaded the gun and took another shot at the female employee, shooting her in the back.

It is unclear whether she is one of the victims killed in the attack.

Bank manager Rebecca Buchheit-Sims told CNN that she was on a video call with a group of colleagues who were together in the first-floor conference room of the bank in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday morning.

The meeting was in full swing when shooter Connor Sturgeon burst into the room and opened fire on the staff members with an AR-15-style rifle.

“I witnessed people being murdered. I don’t know how else to say that,” she said.

“I’m just as much in shock and disbelief and was in disbelief as I watched it unravel.”

Louisville is set to hold a vigil on Wednesday in memory of the five victims killed and eight others wounded in Monday’s mass shooting.

The vigil will take place at 5pm ET on Wednesday at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville/

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said at a press conference on Tuesday that the vigil will “acknowledge the wounds, physical and emotional, that gun violence leaves behind.

“It will be an interfaith opportunity for our entire community to come together – to grieve, to heal, to begin to move forward.”

Speaking at an emotional press conference on Tuesday, Dr Jason Smith, chief medical officer of UofL Health, made an impassioned plea to lawmakers to take action to stop the cycle of shootings.

He said that his team had “barely had to adjust our operating room schedule” to deal with Monday’s shooting at the Old National Bank because of “how frequent we are having to deal with gun violence in our community”.

A Fox News contributor made an impassioned plea for gun reform during a segment on the Louisville shooting.

Ted Williams, a former Washington, DC homicide detective, appeared on Fox News on Monday afternoon.

“From what I understand, this shooter had phoned a friend and said that he was suicidal and that he was going to shoot up a bank. If that is the truth, then I think that we need to again, look at what is going on in our society,” he said.

“You know, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Just two weeks ago, I stood in front of a camera where you had some kids, some babies shot in Tennessee with a person who by the way had an AR-15. And from what we’ve been told here this individual had that same kind of weapon,” he added. “And when you look at mental illness, if mental illness is involved here, and that weapon – that’s a dangerous concoction, and we’ve got to do something in this society.”

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has broken rank with the Republican party to call for tighter gun laws in the wake of last week’s mass shooting in Nashville.

On Tuesday, the Republican governor signed an executive order strengthening background checks on individuals buying guns.

“When there is a clear need for action, I think that we have an obligation to remind people that we should set aside politics and pride and accomplish something that the people of Tennessee want to get accomplished,” he said in a press conference.

Mr Lee also issued a plea to lawmakers to pass a red flag law to stop firearms ending up in the hands of dangerous individuals.