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US: Newly Released 911 Calls Reveal New Details About Louisville Bank Mass Shooting
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Louisville, Kentucky, was thrown into mourning on Monday morning as a gunman killed five people at a bank.
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The gunman was said to be a mentally distressed worker at the bank.
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Louisville authorities have released 911 calls about the deadly shooting.
Eko Hot Blog reports that police in Louisville, Kentucky, United States (US), on Wednesday, released 911 calls about a mass shooting at the Old National Bank in Louisville on Monday.
According to the newly released calls, the mother of the shooter, a 25-year-old bank employee Connor Sturgeon, on Monday called 911 after hearing secondhand that her son had a gun and was heading towards the bank.
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“My son might be (redacted) has a gun and heading to the Old National on Main Street here in Louisville,” she said.
“This is his mother. I’m so sorry, I’m getting details secondhand. I’m learning about it now. Oh my Lord.”
She said her son “apparently left a note” about the incident and she expressed her shock and confusion.
“He’s never hurt anyone, he’s a really good kid,” she said. “We don’t even own guns. I don’t know where he would have gotten a gun.”
Sturgeon had already started using a recently purchased AR-15-style rifle to shoot his coworkers and responding officers when the call came in at 8:41 a.m. on Monday.
He started shooting about 30 minutes before the bank was set to open at 9:00 a.m. and livestreamed it on Instagram before he was shot dead by police.
Five people were killed, and three remained hospitalised as of Tuesday, including Nickolas Wilt, a 26-year-old rookie police officer who just graduated from the police academy 10 days earlier and was shot in the head.
One 911 caller told an operator that an officer was down, having fallen right after their arrival.
“I just wanted to make sure you understood that there was an officer down,” the man tells the operator, “There are several officers here now, but the one hasn’t moved since he’s been shot. … I haven’t seen a foot or anything moving.”
According to the audio files, the first caller to 911 came from a woman who works at a different branch of Old National Bank and witnessed the shooting on video
“How do you know you have an active shooter on site?” the operator asked.
“I just watched it. I just watched it on a Teams meeting. We were having a board meeting,” she said. “I saw somebody on the floor. We heard multiple shots and people started saying ‘Oh my God,’ and then he came into the board room.”
People gather Tuesday to grieve the five people killed in a mass shooting in Louisville, Kentucky (Photo: CNN)
According to CNN, another caller, speaking in a whisper, said she works at the bank and is hiding in a closet. While on the line, several gunshots can be heard in the background.
“I know who it is,” the caller said. “He works with us.”
In a statement released Wednesday, the gunman’s family laid out his mental health challenges but said they never saw any warnings signs of such an attack.
“While Connor, like many of his contemporaries, had mental health challenges which we, as a family, were actively addressing, there were never any warning signs or indications he was capable of this shocking act,” Sturgeon’s family said in a statement to CNN affiliate WDRB.
“No words can express our sorrow, anguish, and horror at the unthinkable harm our son Connor inflicted on innocent people, their families, and the entire Louisville community.
“We mourn their loss and that of our son, Connor. We pray for everyone traumatized by his senseless acts of violence and are deeply grateful for the bravery and heroism of the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department.”
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It’s still unclear what provoked the shooter to go on the deadly rampage. The attack was just one of more than 145 shootings reported in the US this year with at least four people shot, excluding the shooter.
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