Using a rifle, a 23-year-old bank worker opened fire at his Louisville office early on Monday, killing four people, including a governor's close friend, and live streaming the crime, according to the authorities.

Using a rifle, a 23-year-old bank worker opened fire at his Louisville office early on Monday, killing four people, including a governor's close friend, and live streaming the crime, according to the authorities.

Let's be clear about what this was, said Craig Greenberg, the mayor of Louisville. "This was a vicious act of intentional harm." The shooting, the 15th mass murder in the nation this year, occurred just two weeks after a former pupil at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee.

This is 160 miles (260 kilometers) to the south, where three children and three adults were murdered. The state governor and his wife also lost acquaintances in that shooting.

Chief of the Louisville Metro Police Department Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said at a press conference that police killed the shooter after they engaged him in a gunfight after they arrived at the scene as rounds were still being fired inside the Old National Bank.

The police chief declared, "The suspect fired at officers." Then, we returned fire and neutralized that danger. The chief named the shooter Connor Sturgeon, who claimed he was live-streaming the attack.

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She remarked, "It's tragic to know that incident was out there and recorded." "We're hoping we can get that incident and that footage was taken down." Nine people, with two police officers included, were treated for injuries received in the incident, according to the University of Louisville Hospital spokesperson Heather Fountaine in an email.

According to the police chief, one of the cops, a 26-year-old who had graduated from the police academy on March 31, was shot in the head and was in critical condition. At least three patients had already been let go.

A sentimental A close friend of Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear was killed in the shooting at the East Main Street building, which is close to the minor league ballparks Louisville Slugger Field and Waterfront Park.

The governor said of the deaths that it is a terrible act of violence-torn from all irreplaceable, outstanding individuals." Governor Beshear has gone through two significant tragedies since assuming office.

Dawson Springs was one of the communities destroyed by tornadoes that tore across Kentucky in late 2021. This is the hometown of Steve Beshear, a former two-term governor of that state.

Andy Beshear made many trips to Dawson Springs as a child and has spoken movingly about where his father was born. Beshear commented while the investigation in Louisville continued and officials sought a motive.

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Criminal investigators could be seen noting and photographing many bullet holes in the windows near the bank's entrance.

Police converged on a neighborhood about 5 miles (8 kilometers) south of the downtown shooting as part of the investigation. As federal and local officials spoke with residents, the street was shut. Caution tape was used to isolate one residence.

"I can hardly speak. "You see it on the news, but not home," the 38-year-old neighborhood resident Kami Cooper said. The attacker started firing with a long rifle in a conference room in the rear of the first level of the building, a guy who left the building during the shooting, related to WHAS-TV.

He pointed to his clothes and told the news station, "Whoever was close to me got shot; blood is on me. He claimed to have hidden in a break room and closed the door. According to deputy police chief Paul Humphrey, the responding police officers unquestionably saved lives.

This is a tragic occurrence, he declared. But the fantastic response of the police prevented more individuals from suffering more severe injuries than what occurred. A few hours later, a community college was on the scene of a separate incident that left one guy dead and one woman wounded.

The 15 mass shootings that have occurred this year are the most in the first 100 days of a calendar year, according to a database on mass homicides created by The Associated Press, USA Today, and Northeastern University.

16 instances had occurred since 2009 as of April 10. Since records began being kept in 2006, the years with the most mass killings since then have been 2019 and 2022, with 45 and 42 mass killings documented for the entire calendar year. Mass killings eventually decreased to 32 in 2009.