The bodycam video according to CNN shows the tense moments between police officers and the shooter, Connor Sturgeon. It begins with a video from Officer Nickolas Wilt who drives up to the scene with his training officer, identified as Cory “CJ” Galloway.
Wilt, police say, was shot in the head as he ran toward the gunshots police were facing as they arrived.
He is listed in critical condition. Wilt’s camera shows him following Galloway up the outside steps to the bank, his service pistol in his two hands.
The video cuts off before he is shot.
Bodycam footage from Galloway, who was also shot, shows him taking fire, then retreating to a safe position behind a planter as officers talk about how they can’t see the gunman and that he is shooting through windows in the front of the bank.
“Shooter has an angle on that officer!” one officer can be heard saying.
“We got to get up there!” he adds.
Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey said the gunman broke out glass from the lobby windows and when he fired, officers – who could finally pinpoint his location – shot back.
As he looks into the bank lobby, Galloway’s camera audio sounds out with several shots.
“Suspect down, get the officer!!” one officer yells as he moves up the stairs and into the bank to investigate further.
Humphrey lauded the actions of the officers.
“Officer Wilt was a brand new officer, he had no experience. He was going based on two things: his training and his character. And you will see that he never hesitates – even after getting shot at,” Humphrey said at a news conference where nine minutes of video was released.
When the shooting was over, officers and teams from other agencies reentered the bank with supplies and started providing medical treatment right away, Humphrey told reporters.
After talking to medical staff, Humphrey said it is “100% certainty” that those swift actions saved lives.
“The actions that they took to follow up after being shot at themselves, to be compassionate and provide medical treatment, absolutely saved lives that day,” Humphrey said.
Officers took Wilt to the hospital in a patrol vehicle, officials said.
The shooter legally bought an AR-15-style rifle at a local gun dealership six days before he used it to kill five of his colleagues, the interim Louisville Metro Police chief said Tuesday.
Currently, “Kentucky imposes no waiting period between the time of purchase and the physical transfer of a firearm,” according to the Giffords Law Center. By comparison, some states have to wait periods of 7 to 10 days.
It’s still not clear what provoked Sturgeon, a 25-year-old employee, to go on a deadly rampage at Old National Bank and live stream the gruesome attack on Instagram.
Sturgeon had interned at the bank for three summers and been employed there full-time for about two years, his LinkedIn profile showed.
The assailant had been notified that he was going to be fired from the bank, a law enforcement source said Monday.
But Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said he doesn’t believe the shooter was given a notice of termination.
“From what I have been told from an official at the bank, that is not accurate,” Greenberg told reporters Tuesday.
Now, investigators are combing through the footage and other evidence to try to understand what led to the massacre that also left several wounded – including a police officer who was shot in the head.
Officials executed a search warrant at Sturgeon’s home, but interim Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel declined to say what was found.
The carnage marked the 146th mass shooting this year with four or more victims, not including a gunman, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
And the AR-15 and its offshoots have been the weapon of choice in many of the most horrific mass shootings in recent memory, including the Covenant school shooting in Nashville just two weeks ago that’s reignited a fierce political fight over gun control.
It took just one minute for a gunman to complete his deadly rampage before he stopped and waited for police to arrive, according to footage of the massacre described by a city official to CNN.
The video begins by showing an AR-15-style weapon, followed by a worker in the bank saying good morning to the gunman, the official said.
“You need to get out of here,” the shooter is heard saying to the woman on the live stream, which has been taken down by Instagram’s parent company Meta.
The gunman then tries to shoot her in the back but can’t because the safety is on and the weapon still needs to be loaded, the official said.
Once the shooter loads the weapon properly and takes the safety off, he shoots the worker in the back, the official said.
Her condition is not known.
The assailant then continues his rampage, firing at workers while they tried to outrun him, the official said.
The shooter does not go to other populated floors of the bank, the official said.
Once the shooter is done firing, he sits down in the lobby area that looks out onto East Main Street, apparently waiting for police, the official said.
The killer waits about a minute and a half before police arrive – a swift response praised by local leaders – and a gunfight ensues, the official said.
The gunman was struck and killed.
The entire incident – from when the gunman started shooting to when he was killed – lasted about nine minutes, Louisville Police Lt. Col. Aaron Cromwell said.
After the first bullets flew, “There’s a few minutes after that before we get the first call on it. Three minutes after that when we respond to the scene,” Cromwell said Tuesday.
“And then about three minutes after we respond, the subject is neutralized.”
At one point, a Louisville police dispatcher alerted officers: “25-year-old White male, Connor Sturgeon 6 4’. He’s texted a friend, called a friend, left a voicemail saying he’s gonna kill everyone at the bank. Feeling suicidal,” according to Broadcastify audio.
The timing of the dispatch wasn’t immediately clear.
