A Louisville bank employee armed with a rifle opened fire at his workplace, killing four people – including a close friend of Kentucky’s governor – while livestreaming the attack on Instagram, authorities said.
Police arrived as shots were still being fired inside Old National Bank and killed the shooter in an exchange of gunfire, Louisville Metro Police Department Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said.The shooting, the 15th mass killing in the United States this year, comes just two weeks after a former student
An emotional Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said he lost a friend in the shooting in the building on East Main Street not far from the minor league ballpark Louisville Slugger Field and Waterfront Park. In late 2021, one of the towns devastated by tornadoes that tore through the state was Dawson Springs, the hometown of Beshear’s father, former two-term Kentucky governor Steve Beshear. Andy Beshear frequently visited Dawson Springs as a boy and has talked emotionally about his father’s hometown.
As part of the investigation, police descended on a neighbourhood about eight kilometres south of the downtown shooting. The street was blocked as federal and local officers talked to residents. One home was cordoned off with caution tape.“I’m almost speechless. You see it on the news but not at home,” said Kami Cooper, 38, who lives in the neighbourhood.
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