April 11, 2023 - The latest on the Louisville bank shooting | CNN (2024)

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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.

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LMPD Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey detailed the tense moments when police attempted to rescueOfficer 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.

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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 newsurveyfrom 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 146incidentsso 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, federaldatashows. 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 affiiliateWLKY. 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 ouroperating room schedule” on Monday because that’s “howfrequent we are having to dealwith gun violence in ourcommunity.”

He continued: “There’s onlyso many times you can walk intoa room. And tell someone they’renot coming home tomorrow. And itjust breaks your heart. When youhear someone screaming, ‘Mommy’ or‘Daddy.’ It just becomes too hardday in and day out to be able todo 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 somebodytell me the other day. Don’tmake this political. Fine. Don’tmake this political. People’slives aren’t political. Publicsafety isn’t political. Putthose policies in place that putpeople first. People over guns,kids over guns, public safetyover 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 cando this. We can come together atthe federal level, working witheach 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 whenKentucky Republicans would rather ban books and pronouns and then make Kentuckya sanctuary state for weapons.”

“Weare hurting. And no matterwhatpolicywepassed, no, itwill not bring back thesepeople,” 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 violenceis beyond horrific,” he said in a Tuesday briefing.

“We have totake action now. We need short-term action to end this gunviolence epidemic now so fewerpeople die on our streets, and inour banks, and in our schools and in our churches. And forthat, we need help. We need helpfrom our friends in Frankfurt and help from our friends inWashington, 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.Andnowyesterday, I’ve lost avery close friend in anotherworkplace 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 howwe reduce gun violence in ourcity,” he said.

Louisville Metro Police Department Interim Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel speaks during a press conference in Louisville on Tuesday.

The man who opened fire at a Louisville bank, killing five people, purchased the weapon he used in the attack six days ago, police said.

Louisville Metro Police Department Interim Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said the shooter bought the weapon legally from a local dealership on April 4.

Lt. Col. Aaron Crowell said the shooter used an AR-15 rifle in the shooting.

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said a local vigil will be held Wednesday at 5 p.m. ET at the Muhammad Ali Center to honor the victims of Monday’s bank shooting and unite as a community.

The Louisville Metro Police Department will release body-worn camera footage of Monday’s shooting at Old National Bank on Tuesday afternoon, Interim Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel announced.

Dr. Jason Smith, chief medical officer for UofL Health, speaks during a press conference in Louisville on Tuesday.

Dr. Jason Smith, chief medical officer for UofL Health, said that his hospital used 170 units of blood on Monday to treat victims from the bank shooting.

Smith thanked the American Red Cross and their organization’s efforts in getting the hospital additional blood needed for treatment.

He said the blood needed “far outstrips” the hospital’s capacity and credited the Red Cross’s efforts with helping to save lives.

Louisville officials prepare to speak at a press conference on Tuesday in Louisville.

Louisville officials are holding a briefing now on Monday’s fatal workplace shooting and the latest on the investigation.

The release about the briefing said officials will “provide updates on the aftermath of Monday’s shooting and announce a planned vigil.”

Here’s who we expect to speak at the briefing:

An additional patient was discharged from UofL Hospital on Tuesday, a hospital spokesperson told CNN.

Out of the nine patients originally hospitalized:

One of the four patients in the hospital is in critical condition, and the other three are in stable and fair condition, according to the hospital spokesperson.

CNN reported Monday that a fifth victim had died later in the day.

CNN also reported that a rookie Louisville police officer – who graduated from the police academy just 10 days ago – underwent brain surgery after being shot in the head, police said Monday.

The interim police chief told CNN Tuesday morning that the officer was still in critical condition, but stable. Dr. Jason Smith, the chief medical officer at UofL Health, later added at a news conference that the officer is sedated in the intensive care unit.

James "Jim" Tutt

James “Jim” Tutt, one of the victims of Monday’s Old National Bank shooting, was a “huge fan and supporter” of the downtown Louisville area and actively helped to promote it, Rebecca Fleischaker, the executive director of the Downtown Development Corporation, told CNN.

Tutt was on the board of the Downtown Development Corporation since 2018 and recently served as treasurer, according to Fleischaker.

The nonprofit organization works on improving the Louisville downtown area by promoting redevelopment, vitality, economic growth, and a safe environment, according to their website.

Tutt, who was 64 and a native of Frankfort, Kentucky, worked as the commercial real estate (CRE) market executive at Old National Bank in downtown Louisville since 2015, his LinkedIn shows.

“The Louisville Downtown Partnership staff send our love and heartfelt condolences to his wife and family as well as his Old National family, for enduring what should be the unthinkable,” Fleischaker said.

Body camera footage of the police response to the Louisville shooting will be released within the next 24 to 48 hours, according to Kevin Trager, spokesperson at the mayor’s office.

He also said the footagewill notbe released at the upcoming 11:30 a.m. ET briefing with officials

The Louisville Metro Police Department is planning a meeting Tuesday to go over what videos might be released related to Monday’s shooting at Old National Bank.

The department will also discuss the process of showing the videos to the families so they can view them first before they are released to news organizations, according to a law enforcement source.

Police intend to release the videos before this evening, and there could be an evening news conference, the source said.

Police cars and cordon tape block Main Street near the Old National Bank after a mass shooting in Louisville, Kentucky, on April 10.

Five patients are still being treated at University of Louisville Hospital on Tuesday, with one patient upgraded from critical to fair condition, a hospital spokesperson told CNN.

One of the five patients is still in critical condition, and the other four are in stable and fair condition.

Nine patients in total, including three Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers, were treated at the hospital following Monday’s shooting, the spokesperson said. Three of those patients have been discharged.

Five of the nine patients sustained gunshot wounds, and one of the patients died Monday night. LMPD identified the patient who died as 57-year-old Deana Eckert.

Investigators combing through Instagram video of the shooting saw firsthand the horror that unfolded Monday, watching the shooter fire his AR-15-style weapon inside the bank for about a minute and then appearing to wait a minute and a half before police arrive, according to a city official.

It’s unclear why the gunman stopped shooting.

The video shows that his attack on bank workers lasted about a minute, the official told CNN.

The live stream begins with the clearly visible AR-15-style weapon before a worker inside the bank says good morning to the gunman, according to the official.

“You need to get out of here,” the shooter is heard saying to the woman on the live stream, which was eventually taken down by Instagram’s parent company Meta.

According to that official, the gunman then tries to shoot her in the back but can’t because the safety is on and the weapon still needed 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 shooter then continues his rampage, firing at workers while they try to outrun the gunman, the official said.

The shooter does not go to other floors of the bank where workers were already present, the official said.

Once the shooter was done firing, he sat down in the lobby area that looks out onto East Main Street andappears to waitfor police, the official said.

The gunman waited roughly a minute and a half before police arrived and engaged the shooter in the gun battle, according to the official.

Authorities “will make every effort” to release body camera and surveillance footage of the bank shooting “as soon as possible,” Louisville Metro Police spokesperson Aaron Ellis said.

“We are still in the infancy of this investigation,” he added.

A spokesperson for the Louisville mayor also told CNN the office hopes to release the 911 call audio of Monday’s shooting at Old National Bank later Tuesday.

The mayor has seen the surveillance footage, the spokesperson said.

“It’s clear the initial responding officers immediately engaged the shooter,” the spokesperson said, adding the officers undoubtedly saved lives and noting there were other people in the building.

Separately, a Louisville Metro Police dispatcher said in an audio that the gunman, identified as Connor Sturgeon, had left a voicemail saying he was going to kill everyone at the bank.

“He’s texteda friend, called a friend, left a voicemail saying he’sgonnakill everyone at the bank. Feeling suicidal,” the dispatcher said in the audio, according to Broadcastify audio.

Editor’s Note:If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 (or800-273-8255) to connect with a trained counselor or visit theNSPL site.

CNN’s Michelle Watsoncontributed reporting to this post.

Two people embrace outside of a building where a shooting took place in Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday, April 10.

Old National Bank CEO Jim Ryan and other members of the bank’s leadership team are in Louisville Tuesday to provide support to individuals affected by Monday’s mass shooting, according to a statement from the bank, which adds that they will continue to be there in the days ahead.

“Obviously, this is an incredibly difficult situation, and our entire focus is on making sure that everyone affected has the support and assistance they need,” the CEO’s statement reads. “On behalf of everyone at Old National, I also want to acknowledge and thank Louisville law enforcement, the medical community and state and local officials for their incredible response to this tragedy. And finally, we ask you to please continue to pray for all those affected.”

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

The shooting at Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky, 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, Rebecca Buchheit-Sims, the bank manager, said.

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

“Just a very traumatic phone call to get,” Goodlett told the affiliate, adding that he has since seen his wife and she is OK.

The gunman, who was still firing when police arrived, was killed in a shootout with officers, police officials 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. Wilt underwent brain surgery and was in critical but stable condition as of Monday afternoon, the chief said.

The gun used in the shooting was an AR-15-style rifle, a federal law enforcement source told CNN. The semi-automatic rifle is the most popular sporting rifle in the US, and 30% of gun owners reported having owned an AR-15 or similar-style rifle, according to the 2021National Firearms Survey. 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.

The bank sits on the fringe of Louisville’s developing downtown business district, stateSen. Gerald Neal, who represents the district where the shooting happened, told CNN.

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

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg speaks during a news conference after a gunman opened fire at the Old National Bank building on April 10 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg praised his community after a bank shooting Monday that left five people dead.

In a CNN interview alongside Louisville Metro Police Department Interim Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel, Greenberg — who said he himself is a survivor of gun violence in the workplace — encouraged those impacted by the shooting to “take time with loved ones.”

The mayor said his friend Tommy Elliott, who was killed in the shooting, was a “great friend” and “the definition of loyalty.” Elliott was also a friend to Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and others around the city, he said.

He recounted having not known whether another friend had survived yesterday’s attack. The mayor said when he saw his friend in the hospital, he was overwhelmed.

“We both survived,” the mayor said he told his friend, encouraging him to see a therapist and talk to professionals.

While the mayor said he doesn’t personally know the others who died, from the stories he has heard, “they are wonderful as well.”

Louisville Metro Interim Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel delivers remarks regarding the shooting at Old National Bank on April 10 in Louisville, Kentucky.

In an interview with CNN, Louisville’s interim police chief offered few further details about the developing investigation into the fatal workplace shooting at a downtown bank in the Kentucky city, revealing that the gunman recently purchased the weapon used in the shooting without providing any more information.

Louisville Metro Interim Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel confirmed that police searched the suspect’s home Monday, adding she hopes the items that were recovered will help shed light on the motive.

She did not say whether any other search warrants were executed.

Asked about a note the shooter wrote indicating he was going to carry out a shooting at the bank, the interim chief said the investigation was in preliminary stages.

She said that Officer Nickolas Wilt, who was shot in the head while responding to the shooting, was in critical but stable condition and “looking better.” Wilt graduated from the police academy less than two weeks ago.

She asked for prayers for him and the families of others who lost their lives to “senseless” violence.

Meta, the parent company of Instagram, confirmed that they took down a live-stream video of the Louisville bank shooting.

“We are in touch with law enforcement and quickly removed the live stream,” a Meta spokesperson said.

Meta declined to comment if the video was taken down on its own or at the request of law enforcement.

Sources previously told CNN that theshooting was live streamed on Instagram and has been take down but not immediately after the shooting.

Police are in possession of the video, according to the source.

Investigators inspect bullet holes at the scene of a shooting at Old National Bank in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on April 10.

The mass shooting at the Old National Bank on East Main Street in Louisville, Kentucky, began just after 8:30 a.m. — about 30 minutes before the bank opens to the public, police said.

It happened during a morning employee meeting, with some appearing in person and others virtually, Rebecca Buchheit-Sims, a manager at the bank, told CNN. She watched from her computer as her coworkers were gunned down.

“I witnessed people being murdered. I don’t know how else to say that,” Buchheit-Sims said.

Buchheit-Sims said she didn’t directly work with the gunman, Connor Sturgeon, but knew him because his father was her son’s high school basketball coach, and her husband was an assistant coach.

“Just kind of a monotone personality,” she said of Sturgeon. “His temperament is pretty low key. I’ve never seen the kid get angry or upset about anything in public. He was pretty much just relaxed.”

President Joe Biden spoke over the phonewith Kentucky Gov. AndyBeshearon Monday evening about the bank shooting yesterday in Louisville, the White House said.

He had earlier condemned the latest mass shooting and called on Congress toact on gun reform.

The scene outside of Old National Bank in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on April 10.

At least five people were killed and nine others were taken to the hospital after a gunman opened fire at Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky, Monday morning.

Here’s what we know so far: