Five shot dead in busy bank as workers hide in vault from rampaging gunman

DAILY STAR

Five people have died and at least nine more – allegedly including a police officer – have been left injured after a gunman opened fire in a busy bank.

The Louisville Metropolitan Police Department were called to the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky, US earlier today (April 10) at around 8.30 am local time with “reports of an active aggressor”.

The suspected shooter has since been provisionally identified as 25-year-old former Old National Bank employee Connor Sturgeon, who is understood to have been let go by the company in the past.

Officers confirmed the “lone shooter is deceased” and there is “no longer an active aggressor threat” but said the public should continue to avoid the area.

Three of the five people who were killed in the shooting, the fifth of which being Sturgeon, have since been named by authorities as Tammy Eliot, 63, Josh Barrett, 40, and Juliana Farmer, 57.

Deputy Chief Col. Paul Humphrey, of Louisville Metropolitan Police Department (LMPD) said: “We’re trying to establish what the connection was to the business but it appears he was a previous employee.”