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Another shooting occurred in the US.
A bank teller who was notified of the layoff opened fire, killing five people and wounding nine others.
It turned out that the shooter even broadcast his crime live on social media.
Correspondent Narim Kang from New York will tell you.
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Louisville is the largest city in the US state of Kentucky.
Gunshots echo in the middle of town.
″There is a shooter in the bank!″
At around 8:40 am local time on the 10th, a shooting occurred at the Old National Bank building.
[트로이 해이스트 / 총격 목격자]
″The shooter took a long rifle and started shooting. He just started firing. We were at the back of the conference room. Blood splattered on me as the person next to me was shot.”
Police responded immediately, but the shooter killed five people, including a fellow bank teller.
In addition, nine people, including two police officers, were injured, including a new police officer in his 20s who was shot in the head.
The culprit is Conor Sturgeon, a 23-year-old white male.
He recently received a notice of termination from the bank where he worked and left notes to family and friends suggesting the shooting.
At the time of the crime, he also broadcast the shooting scene live through his social media.
[재클린 그윈-빌라로엘/루이빌 경찰서장]
″The shooter was livestreaming the shooting. Unfortunately, it’s tragic that we saw that and we went to work.”
The shooter was shot by police and died at the scene.
The governor, who visited the scene, wept, saying he had lost a friend in the shooting.
[앤디 베시어/켄터키주지사]
″It is terrible. One of my best friends mightn’t make it here today. So does another friend.″
The tragedy occurred just two weeks following six people were killed in a shooting at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, on the 27th of last month.
President Joe Biden issued a statement and urged Congress to come forward for gun control, saying, “How many more Americans must die.”
In the United States, more than 10,000 people have been killed by gun violence this year alone.
This is MBC News Kang Na-rim from New York.
Video coverage: Ahn Jung-gyu (New York) / Video editing: Kim Min-ji