At least four people were killed and eight others were injured in a shooting that occurred Monday morning in downtown Louisville, according to reported US media.
Among those injured in the incident, which occurred at the Old National Bank, was a police officer whose condition was critical, according to the deputy chief of the Louisville Metropolitan Police, Colonel Paul Humphrey.
BREAKING: At least 5 killed, 6 hospitalized in downtown Louisville shooting, police say. https://t.co/NmkSlAZ9jn pic.twitter.com/UZJIEN4g7L
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 10, 2023
The shooter died in the exchange with the police forces. They assume that he is a former bank employee.
The shooting occurred this morning, around 08:30 local time (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. .
Police responded within three minutes of the call and met the suspect “almost immediately,” Humphrey said.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said he had lost friends in the shooting. “It is awful. I have a very close friend who didn’t make it today, and I have another close friend who didn’t either,” Beshear said during a news conference Monday morning.
The building is next to Slugger Field, the baseball field of the local team, the Louisville Bats, one of the busiest areas of the city located on the Kentucky-Indiana border and home to some 630,000 people.
The first three months of US gun violence in 2023, as of April 3rd:
•4,529 gun deaths
•8,085 gun injuries
•135 mass shootings
•197 children shot
•1,258 teenagers shot
•268 incidents of defensive gun use
•368 unintentional shootings
~6,138 suicides [CDC estimate]— The Gun Violence Archive (@GunDeaths) April 3, 2023
According to Gun Violence Archive (GVA), a nonprofit project that tracks gun violence in the United States, so far in 2023 there have been 10,566 firearms incidents, ranging from mass shootings to suicides.
The Louisville Police plan to give another press conference at 3:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. GMT).
With information from CNN, EFE and AP.
