A Louisville bank employee broadcast live the shooting that killed 5 people.
A Louisville bank employee armed with a rifle opened fire at his workplace on Monday morning, killing five people.
The police arrived while shooting was still going on inside the Old National Bank.
Louisville Police Department Chief Jacqueline Gwynn-Villaroel said police killed the shooter.
Mayor Craig Greenberg called the attack “a vicious act of targeted violence.”
The shooting, the 15th U.S. mass shooting this year, comes just two weeks following a former student killed three children and three adults at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee.
In Louisville, the shooter was identified as 25-year-old Connor Sturgeon, who the police chief said was live-streaming the shooting on Instagram at the time of the attack.
“It’s tragic to know that this incident was being filmed,” she said.
Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, said in a statement that it “quickly removed the live feed of this tragic incident this morning.”
A man who fled the building during the shooting told WHAS-TV that the shooter opened fire with a long-barreled shotgun in a conference room at the back of the building’s first floor.
“The one who was next to me was shot – because of this, there is blood on me,” he told the news station, pointing to his shirt. He added that he ran to the break room and closed the door.
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said he lost one of his closest friends in the shooting.
Earlier, the Cursor wrote that in the United States, police officers mixed up the house and shot an innocent man.
