Washington, Apr 10 (EFE).- The author of the shooting this Monday at a bank in Louisville (Kentucky), in which there were four deaths, was 23 years old, worked in that bank and used a rifle, the Police said on Monday of that American city.
The attacker, who was “neutralized” by the agents and also died, was a white man identified as Conner Sturgeon.
The shooting occurred around 08:30 local time in the morning (12:30 GMT) in a building in downtown Louisville where one of the headquarters of the Old National Bank is located, a regional bank with branches in the southeast and midwest of the United States.
Four people died and another nine were injured, three of them in critical condition. The four fatalities, three men and one woman, were between the ages of 40 and 67.
Separately, the death of the assailant is recorded, who died inside the bank in the exchange of shots with the agents.
“The first battle was to stop the aggressor. The second is to do everything we can to keep the injured alive,” Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, a friend of one of the deceased, said at a press conference.
The building where the shooting took place is next to Slugger Field, the baseball field of the local team, the Louisville Bats, one of the busiest areas of this city located on the Kentucky-Indiana border and where some 630,000 live. people.
According to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), a non-profit project that tracks gun violence in the United States, so far in 2023 there have been 10,566 firearm incidents, ranging from mass shootings to suicides.
GVA defines a mass shooting as one that ends with four victims, whether dead or wounded, not including the perpetrator of the attack if he died or was injured during the event.
