UPDATED. Police say they responded within minutes to reports of an attacker at about 8:30 am at the bank office near Slugger Field baseball stadium.
A 23-year-old bank employee armed with a rifle shot dead four colleagues and wounded nine other people at his workplace on Monday, April 10, while livestreaming the attack in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, officials said.
In the latest in a long series of mass shootings in the US, police said they responded within minutes to reports of an attacker at about 8:30 am at the bank office near Slugger Field baseball stadium. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, on the verge of tears, said during a news briefing that he knew some of the victims, including Elliot, a senior vice president at the bank.
The status of the shooter’s job at the bank was not immediately clear on Monday. Gwinn-Villaroel said at a news conference that he was employed there. But CNN, citing confidential law enforcement sources, said he had been notified that he would be fired. “This was a targeted act of evil violence” Craig Greenberg, the mayor of Louisville, a city of 625,000, told reporters at the briefing. Greenberg said he was also friends with Elliot, who had worked on the mayoral transition campaign.
In one of the most recent high-profile incidents, three 9-year-old students and three staff members were killed at a school in Nashville, Tennessee, by a former student on March 27.
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