I trust you had a wonderful Easter Sunday. I took the full day off, meaning that I didn’t have a post for yesterday. No worries, though. Evil takes no holiday.
Officials with the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department in Kentucky confirmed Monday that five people died following “reports of an active aggressor” near a bank.
Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel identified the shooter as Connor Sturgeon, who was one of the five deceased.
Louisville Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey told reporters that four died and eight were injured, including one officer, with various injuries. Officials later said that five people died.
“We believe this is a lone gunman involved in this that did have a connection to the bank. We’re trying to establish what that connection was to the business, but it appears he was a previous employee,” Humphrey said.
Nine people, including two police officers, were treated for injuries from the shooting, University of Louisville Hospital spokeswoman Heather Fountaine said in an email. One of the officers was in critical condition, she said. At least three patients had been discharged.
The killer live-streamed his rampage. It’s possible that what we have here is a former employee of the bank exacting vengeance for some perceived slight. The New York Post reports that:
Sturgeon worked as a summer intern for the bank for three consecutive years, eventually joining as a commercial development professional in 2021 and a full-time associate and portfolio banker last year, according to his LinkedIn account.
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Sturgeon had been told he was going to be fired from the bank, according to CNN, who also reported he had left a note for his parents and a friend saying he was going to shoot up the bank.
I wouldn’t make too much of it at this point in the investigation, but several commentators have pointed out his apparent support of the Pronoun Extremists by listing his pronouns in his bio.
The shooter was also a star athlete in high school who sustained multiple concussions.
Sturgeon was an all-round athlete, playing basketball, football and running track at school, according to an old classmate.
The classmate, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Daily Beast Sturgeon wore a helmet while playing due to multiple concussions he suffered while playing football.
Of course, Resident Brandon aired his grievances after the shooting, blaming the killing on the gun rather than on an mentally-troubled young man.
“How many more Americans must die before Republicans in Congress will act to protect our communities?” he added. “It’s long past time that we require safe storage of firearms. Require background checks for all gun sales. Eliminate gun manufacturers’ immunity from liability. We can and must do these things now.”
Neither safe storage, background checks, or “gun manufacturer’s immunity from liability” would have stopped the shooter yesterday. The shooter gave no indication whatsoever that he was capable of, or even harbored thoughts of, mass murder. So the Left’s precious “red flag laws” wouldn’t have stopped him either.
This latest shooting comes on the heels of the killing of six people, including three children, at a Christian school in Tennessee two weeks ago, which seems to be in some sort of cover-up mode. The shooter in that case died, too.
Our country is devolving into chaos, the opposite of order. If you haven’t purchased a firearm yet, I really, seriously, not kiddingly implore you to buy one and learn how to shoot it before it’s too late. And if you haven’t bought ammo recently, there’s no time like the present to stock up.