April 11, 2023 - The latest on the Louisville bank shooting

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The Louisville Metro Police Department released several minutes of officer body camera footage showing the tense moments between police officers and the gunman outside the Monday bank shooting.

Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey walked through several clips of the incident Tuesday evening. Police said it took about three minutes for the nearest responding officers to arrive.

Here’s what to know:

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg speaks at a press conference on April 11, 2023 at Metro Hall in Louisville, Kentucky.

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said he is already talking with state lawmakers from both parties about gun reform, one day after a mass shooting at a bank killed five people in his city.

Greenberg, who knew one person that was killed, told CNN the victims “should not be dead,” as in the case of other people killed by gun violence. While there is a spirit of coming together, he said, “I’m also hopeful we are taking action.”

“We have had enough gun violence in Louisville. We have had enough gun violence in our country and it’s time to take action,” he said, pledging to work with other elected officials and community leaders.

Greenberg wants either statewide action in Kentucky or a change to state laws that would allow him to pass reforms in just his city.

While he has had preliminary conversations with lawmakers at the state capital on both sides of the aisle, he said more meetings are expected to happen in the coming days to “talk about what we can do together”

Police released several minutes of officer body camera video Tuesday evening.

And Greenberg said two things stood out to him about the footage — first is the bravery of the officers who ran into the building, and the second was the tragedy of watching the events unfold.

“Our city is heartbroken” for those killed, the mayor said when asked how the community is reacting.

Juliana Farmer, one of the five people killed in a Louisville bank on Monday, is being remembered by her family as someone who loved life.

“Her siblings, they lost a sister. Her children lost a mother. Their children lost a grandmother,” Farmer’s aunt, Vicki Brooks-Scott told CNN affiliate WAVE. “I lost a niece.” 

Farmer, an employee at the bank, had only recently moved to Louisville from Henderson, Brooks-Scott said. “This was her third week on the job,” she said. 

Farmer, 45, leaves behind three children and four grandchildren, Brooks-Scott said. A fifth grandchild is expected to arrive in September, she added.

“I’m hoping that this baby will be born on September 20th because that was her birthday,” she said.

Body camera footage from LMPD Officer Cory "C.J." Galloway. A portion of this video has been blurred by the Louisville Metro Police Department.

Editor’s note: This post contains graphic descriptions of violence.

LMPD Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey detailed the tense moments when police attempted to rescue Officer Nickolas Wilt, who was shot in the head as police rushed to the scene of the shooting early Monday.

Wilt, a 26-year-old rookie officer, is in critical condition at a local hospital. He graduated from the police academy just 11 days ago.

The gunfire broke the bank windows, allowing Galloway to find a vantage point to see where the gunman was located, Humphrey said. “Once he is able to see the threat, he then engages the threat, shoots and kills the suspect.”

Galloway suffered a minor gunshot wound.

Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey of the Louisville Metro Police Department speaks during today's news briefing.

When the shooting was over, officers and teams from other agencies reentered the bank with supplies and started providing medical treatment right away, Louisville Metro Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey said.

After talking to medical staff, Humphrey said it is “100% certainty” that those swift actions saved lives.

He said EMS need to ride in the back of the ambulance with the patients, but they were short-staffed, so police officers offered to drive so the EMS workers could treat a victim on the way to the hospital.

The gunman in Monday’s shooting appeared to be waiting for police officers to arrive at Old National Bank, according to Louisville Metro Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey.

At a Tuesday news conference, Humphrey said the shooter went to the bank’s front lobby “after assaulting the victims in the office area.”

Body camera footage from LMPD Officer Nickolas Wilt shows Officer Cory "C.J." Galloway heading up stairs towards the bank.

Editor’s note: This post contains graphic descriptions of violence.

Body camera footage shows the tense moments between police officers and the gunman, Connor Sturgeon, outside the Monday bank shooting in Louisville. 

Footage from Officer C. Galloway’s body camera shows police talking about how they can’t see the shooter and that he is shooting through windows in the bank.

“Shooter has an angle on that officer!” one officer can be heard saying. “We got to get up there!” he adds. 

“Suspect down, get the officer!” one officer yells as he moves up the stairs and into the bank to investigate further.

Officer Nickolas Wilt, 26, who ran toward the gunfire, was shot in the head during the incident, police previously announced.

He had graduated from the police academy just 10 days before the shooting, police said. He is in critical condition at the hospital, officials tell CNN.

Body camera footage shows that Officer Nickolas Wilt went back into the line of fire to protect people, Louisville Metro Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey said during a news conference Tuesday.

Humphrey emphasized the role and mission of police is to protect lives and constitutional rights and that’s what officers did during the deadly shooting at a Louisville bank Monday.

Humphrey commended Wilt’s bravery. Wilt was shot in the head when police confronted the gunman at the bank.

Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel, Interim Chief of the Louisville Metro Police Department, speaks at today's news briefing.

Several minutes of police body camera video from the deadly bank shooting in Lousiville, Kentucky, shows the bravery of the responding officers, the department’s Interim Chief Jacquelyn Gwynn-Villaroel said.

The chief said moving forward, it is time for healing and compassion, but added that officers will remain “prepared to face and conquer” future threats.

Police previously said officers arrived at the bank three minutes after being notified of the shooting. Three officers were injured, and one had to have brain surgery, officials said.

Louisville officials are releasing bodycam footage of Monday’s deadly bank shooting and will show it at a news briefing happening now.

According to the Louisville Metro Police Department, the six to seven minutes of bodycam footage will show multiple angles of officers responding to the shooting.

In addition to the surveillance footage, CNN reported that the shooter, identified as a 25-year-old bank employee, live streamed the attack on Instagram. The video has been taken down. A city official described the footage to CNN, saying the shooter fired his AR-15-style weapon inside the bank for about a minute and then appeared to wait a minute and a half before police arrived.

Earlier Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Louisville mayor told CNN the office hopes to release the 911 call audio of the shooting on Tuesday.

Officer Nickolas Wilt remains in critical condition.

Officer Nickolas Wilt, who was shot in the head when police confronted the gunman at the Louisville bank on Monday, is a volunteer firefighter and is active with the LaGrange Fire and Rescue Department, according to the department’s chief Jim Sitzler. 

He has volunteered with the department since 2016,

“He also worked for Oldham county dispatch as a dispatch and EMS,” Sitzler told CNN, who described him as an asset to the department. 

Sitzler said public service is in Wilt’s DNA. 

The rookie police officer is still in critical condition after undergoing surgery, Sitzler said. 

Body camera footage from officers responding to the Louisville bank shooting is expected to be released Tuesday evening, according to Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg.

A video package will be played and discussed at a 5 p.m. ET news conference, the mayor said.

According to the Louisville Metro Police Department, six to seven minutes of bodycam footage showing multiple angles of officers responding to the shooting will be released.

Greenberg said the video “will focus on the interactions between the shooter and police” and that it will be “respectful” in terms of sensitivity toward victims. The video will then be uploaded to a YouTube page for distribution.

911 calls related to the incident are not expected to be released Tuesday, the police department’s public information officer, Matthew Sanders told CNN.

Police stand guard outside of the Old National Bank building in Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday.

Body camera footage showing the confrontation between police and the gunman who killed five people at a Louisville bank is expected to be released Tuesday evening.

Meantime, police are uncovering new details about the shooter. The department’s chief said that the gun used in the attack was purchased less than a week ago.

Here’s what to know to get up to speed:

A majority of adults or their family members in the United States have been affected by a gun-related incident, according to a new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Over half of US adults, 54%, have either personally or had a family member who has been impacted by such an incident, such as witnessing a shooting, being threatened by a gun, or been injured or killed by a gun.

Nearly 1 in 5 adults has had a family member killed by a gun, including in homicide and suicide. About as many adults have been personally threatened with a gun, and about 1 in 6 adults has witnessed an injury from a shooting, the survey found.

The new report came less than a day after a shooter killed five people in Louisville, Kentucky. Mass shootings have escalated in recent years, reaching a record pace in 2023. There have been at least 146 incidents so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, leaving more than 200 people dead and hundreds more injured.

About half of all gun-related deaths are suicides, federal data shows. And the suicide rate has also recently increased, reversing years of decline and returning to near-record levels.

The vast majority of adults say they worry at least sometimes that they or someone in their family will become a victim of gun violence, the new KFF survey found. Nearly a quarter of parents of children younger than 18 say they worry about it daily or almost daily.

Guns are now the leading cause of death among children and teens in the US, surpassing car accidents in 2020.

According to the new KFF survey, Black adults are more than twice as likely as White adults to have lost a loved one to gun violence and to have personally witnessed someone being shot.

Read more about the survey.

Louisville Metro Police Department Lt. Col. Aaron Crowell provided a few more specifics about the timeline of the fatal shooting at a bank Monday that left five dead.

During a briefing on Tuesday, Crowell said that the shooter was “neutralized” approximately three minutes after police responded.

Crowell reiterated that the gun purchased by the shooter in the fatal bank shooting was an AR-15-style rifle. 

Louisville Interim Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said it was a “targeted” incident, as the shooter — who was an employee of the bank — knew the victims.

Police said they don’t know whether armed guards were present in the building.

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg added that the shooting took place on the first floor of the bank building, and there were other people in the building at the time who were later cleared from the scene by police.

Authorities said a third officer was injured as a result of the incident, but not from a gunshot wound.

CNN’s Michelle Krupa contributed to this report.

Police deploy at the scene of a shooting in downtown Louisville on April 10.

The Louisville Metro Police Department has opened two separate investigations following Monday’s shooting at Old National Bank — one under the purview of homicide and another under the scope of its Public Integrity Unit, a police official said.

How the events unfolded: The shooting began around 8:30 a.m. ET, police said, about 30 minutes before the bank opens to the public. Bank staff were holding their morning meeting in a conference room when the shooter opened fire, bank manager Rebecca Buchheit-Sims said.

One bank employee frantically called her husband as she sheltered inside a locked vault, the husband, Caleb Goodlett told CNN affiiliate WLKY. By the time he called 911, police were already aware of the shooting, he said.

The gunman, who was still firing when police arrived, was killed in a shootout with officers, police said.

Nickolas Wilt, a 26-year-old rookie officer, ran toward the gunfire and was shot in the head, interim Louisville Metro Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said. He had graduated from the police academy just 10 days before the shooting. The officer is sedated in the intensive care unit, Dr. Jason Smith, the chief medical officer at UofL Health, said at Tuesday’s news conference.

CNN’s John Miller, Laura Ly, Artemis Moshtaghian, Celina Tebor, Caroll Alvarado, Kristina Sgueglia, Sara Smart and Eric Levenson contributed to this report.

Dr. Jason Smith, chief medical officer for UofL Health, said having to treat so many victims of gun violence, day in and day out, has made him grow “weary.”

Smith said that his hospital “barely had to adjust our operating room schedule” on Monday because that’s “how frequent we are having to deal with gun violence in our community.”

He continued: “There’s only so many times you can walk into a room. And tell someone they’re not coming home tomorrow. And it just breaks your heart. When you hear someone screaming, ‘Mommy’ or ‘Daddy.’ It just becomes too hard day in and day out to be able to do that.”

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Rep. Morgan McGarvey, a Democrat from Kentucky, speaks during a press conference in Louisville on Tuesday.

Rep. Morgan McGarvey, a Democrat from Kentucky, called for Republicans to pass gun reform policies saying that the issue is not political.

“I had somebody tell me the other day. Don’t make this political. Fine. Don’t make this political. People’s lives aren’t political. Public safety isn’t political. Put those policies in place that put people first. People over guns, kids over guns, public safety over guns. Because that is what we need to address this problem,” McGarvey added.

McGarvey discussed crisis aversion legislation that he has introduced to temporarily remove fire arms from those who are going through a crisis. He called on his colleagues to support those efforts in bipartisan way, including pushing for universal background checks.

“We can do this. We can come together at the federal level, working with each other to solve this problem, which is impacting all of us in a uniquely American way,” he said.

He then called out the Republicans for working harder on identify politics than on gun reform.

McGarvey said things like getting “weapons of war off our streets” and “helping people who are in crisis” are not a “political issue,” but “it becomes one when Kentucky Republicans would rather ban books and pronouns and then make Kentucky a sanctuary state for weapons.”

“We are hurting. And no matter what policy we passed, no, it will not bring back these people,” he added.

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg speaks during a press conference in Louisville on Tuesday.

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said that 40 people have now been killed by guns this year in his city, giving an impassioned plea for state and federal government to take action on gun violence or to cede that power to the city.

“That level of gun violence is beyond horrific,” he said in a Tuesday briefing.

“We have to take action now. We need short-term action to end this gun violence epidemic now so fewer people die on our streets, and in our banks, and in our schools and in our churches. And for that, we need help. We need help from our friends in Frankfurt and help from our friends in Washington, DC.,” the mayor said.

As a Democratic candidate for mayor, Greenberg was the target of a shooting at his campaign headquarters.

“Last year, I survived a workplace shooting. And now yesterday, I’ve lost a very close friend in another workplace shooting,” the mayor said.

Greenberg said that the state law should be changed to address Louisville’s response to gun violence.

“Let us, the people of Louisville, make our own choices about how we reduce gun violence in our city,” he said.