A 23-year-old used a rifle to kill four people — including a close friend of the governor — on Monday at the Louisville bank where he was an employee, authorities 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.“This is awful,” he said. “I have a very close friend who didn’t make it today. ... And one who’s at the hospital that I hope is going to make it through.”
Beshear spoke as the investigation in Louisville continued and police searched for a motive. Crime scene investigators could be seen marking and photographing numerous bullet holes in the windows near the bank’s front door.As part of the investigation, police descended on a neighbourhood about 8 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.
A man who fled the building during the shooting told WHAS-TV that the shooter opened fire with a long rifle in a conference room in the back of the building’s first floor.“Whoever was next to me got shot — blood is on me from it,” he told the news station, pointing to his shirt. He said he fled to a break room and shut the door.“This is a tragic event,” he said. “But it was the heroic response of officers that made sure that no more people were more seriously injured than what happened.
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