Authorities said the 25-year-old gunman purchased the weapon from a Louisville dealer on April 4, six days before the attack.
Police tape surrounds the Old National Bank after a gunman opened fire on April 10, 2023 in Louisville, Kentucky.The gunman who killed five people and injured eight others during a shooting in downtown Louisville on Monday bought the AR-15 style rifle used in the attack legally, authorities said Tuesday.
The third patient was Officer Nickolas Wilt, one of the responding police officers who was shot in the head Monday morning when police exchanged gunfire with the shooter. Wilt remained in critical condition.According to LMPD Lt. Col. Aaron Crowell, about nine minutes elapsed between the start of the shooting and when officers"neutralized" Sturgeon.
Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg called the level of gun violence"beyond horrific" and said 40 people had already been shot to death in Louisville this year."It's beyond anything we can and will accept in our community," he said. When asked what it was like for hospital staff to deal with the influx of patients from the shooting, University of Louisville Health chief medical officer Jason Smith said it wasn't uncommon for the emergency room to see that many gunshot victims in one day.
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