Louisville Bank Shooter Identified as Current Employee

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(TNS) – Louisville Metro Police have identified a 23-year-old man as the shooter who killed four people and injured several others before he was fatally shot by police in downtown Louisville Monday morning.

Connor Sturgeon, a white male who police said was live-steaming the shooting he committed with a rifle, was a current employee about to be fired at Old National Bank, where the shooting occurred Monday.

The new details emerged during a Monday afternoon press conference attended by city officials and Gov. Andy Beshear, who said he’d lost two close friends in the shooting.

According to police, officers were dispatched to Old National Bank Monday morning for reports of an active shooter. When they arrived they encountered active shooting, but the shooter was reported dead soon after they arrived.

Louisville Metro Police Department Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel named him Monday afternoon during a press conference. She said he was formerly an employee with Old National Bank and assumed he was a Louisville resident.

According to the police chief, Sturgeon was killed by police gunfire. He was reported to have used a “rifle,” although police did not specifically state what type.

Gwinn-Villaroel said Sturgeon was live-streaming the shooting as it happened.

“It was tragic to know that it was out there and that it was captured,” she said in an afternoon press conference. Police were working to remove the video footage, she continued.

According to Sturgeon’s LinkedIn profile, he was a syndications associate and portfolio banker at the bank. He attended the University of Alabama for finance and economics from 2016 to 2020 and graduated with a master of science and finance in 2020.

Sturgeon also worked as a summer intern associate with the Old National Bank from May 2018 to August 2020. He was hired at the bank in June 2021, and he worked as a commercial development professional before taking the most recent portfolio banker position in April 2022.

According to social media accounts, Sturgeon graduated from Floyd Central High School in southern Indiana in 2016. He played basketball there.

Before he was killed by police, he shot and killed four individuals identified as Joshua Barrick, 40, Thomas Elliot, 63, Juliana Farmer, 57, and James Tutt, 64.