Kentucky, United States.- Louisville Police body camera video shows officers arriving at the Kentucky bank to respond to a shooting that left five people dead and eight wounded.
The images show how the shooter fires at the Louisville agents. The officers confront the shooter and work to rescue an injured colleague.
Two patrolmen who responded to the shooting were wounded, one of them was hit by a bullet that hit him in the head.
Louisville Metropolitan Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey walked reporters through edited images and still photos at a news conference.
A still image from surveillance video showed the shooter holding a rifle inside the building, surrounded by broken glass. Police said they set up an ambush position to attack the officers as they arrived.
After Rookie Officer Nickolas Wilt was injured, Officer Corey Galloway’s body camera captured him sitting behind a ladder outside the building.
Galloway waited there until other officers arrived, at which point more shots were heard. In response, Galloway fired his gun and later reported that he believed the shooter had been shot.
Humphrey said the video shows Galloway “continuing to fight and trying to assess exactly where this shooter is” after a minor gunshot wound while talking on the radio and “trying to get a view of the shooter.”
Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said it was crucial to release the images because “transparency is important, even more so in times of crisis.”
Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel told a news conference that bank employee Connor Sturgeon, 25, bought the AR-15 assault rifle used in the attack from a local dealership on April 4.
Armed with the rifle, Sturgeon killed his co-workers, including a close friend of the Governor of Kentucky, while livestreaming the attack before he was killed by police.
