Connor Sturgeon: Louisville mass shooter told female coworker to leave before shooting her in the back
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY: Connor Sturgeon, the Louisville bank shooter shot a woman in the back and carried out the slaughter in a minute before he waited for police to arrive at the scene. The gunman live-streamed the harrowing ordeal on Instagram which was later removed from the social media platform.
The 25-year-old learned that he was about to be fired from the Old National Bank where he had been employed since 2021. He was reportedly suicidal and fatally shot five people and injured eight others in the massacre where he was killed in a confrontation with the police officers who responded to the scene on Monday morning, April 10. Officials identified the five victims of the massacre as Joshua Barrick, 40, Juliana Farmer, 45, Deanna Eckert, 57, Thomas Elliott, 63, and James 'Jim' Tutt, 64, reported New York Post.
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'You need to get out of here'
According to the outlet, the live-streamed video which is now scrubbed from Instagram reportedly showed a female worker inside the bank greeting Sturgeon saying "Good morning."
"You need to get out of here," the gunman told the woman and tried shooting her in the back. The woman then tried to escape as the rifle was not yet loaded at the time and his attempt to shoot her failed, according to the officials who detailed the contents of the live-streamed video to CNN. The mass shooter then loaded the rifle by removing the safety and aimed at the woman who greeted him. The woman was shot in the back and her condition remains unknown. The 25-year-old then went on firing several shots at his co-workers on the bank's first floor while they were trying to run to safety.
Sturgeon took a break amid the rampage
After a minute into the rampage, the gunman took a break from the shooting as he sat in the bank's lobby and seemed to wait for the arrival of the police officers to the scene, as per the official who described the now-deleted video.
In less than two minutes, the first officers responded to the scene in Louisville's downtown area and confronted Sturgeon who was killed during the ordeal. Officers have not yet officially determined Sturgeon's motive behind the killing spree. However, the gunman recently learned about the bank planning to fire him.
