The shocking video of the shooting by a bank employee in Louisville

The images are terrifying. This is not a video game but real life. It’s about 5 minutes into Corey Galloway and Nickolas Wilt -Kentucky Police Officers- arrive at Louisville bank where 5 people died and 8 others were injured.

Through the cameras placed on the lapels of the policemen’s jackets, the officers recorded the moment they arrive in the patrol car and are already shot by the attacker. One of them is even seen falling injured in the anteroom of the branch. The following scenes were also recorded, until he was knocked down in the middle of a thunderous exchange of gunfire.

Police received the alert at 8:38 AM Monday morning (9:38 AM in Argentina), and three minutes later, a 911 vehicle with two officers aboard arrived at the East Main Street building that houses the Old National Banknot far from Louisville Slugger Field and Waterfront Park.

While one of the troops indicates to the other where to park as a sign of caution, the first shots are heard from the shore.

One of the still images taken from the surveillance camera video showed the attacker – a 25-year-old bank employee – holding a rifle inside the building and with broken glass around.

He had already shot several people inside the branch and police said they were stationed there an ambush position to attack agents as they arrive.

The doors to the main entrance were glass, raised above the pavement level. Due to the reflection, the agents they could not see the attacker inside the bank. But he could see them.

Due to the aggravating scenario, Officer Cory Galloway he took out a rifle from the trunk of the patrol car. “cover me”he told his partner, and they reported to headquarters that shots had been fired.

Galloway was training rookie officer Nickolas Wilt, who had graduated from the police academy just 10 days earlier. Videos show they were walking up the stairs to the front door when the assailant started shooting at them.

Wilt was shot in the headeven if that moment does not appear in the video. Galloway was hit in the shoulder by a bullet.. His body cam showed him falling and then taking cover behind a concrete planter at the bottom of the stairs leading up to the building. In the background, the sirens of dozens of patrol cars that were approaching the place could be heard.

The money waited a few seconds, and as more police arrived, more shots were heard and more windows were broken.

“The attacker can see that agent,” he says in the recording. “We have to get up there. I don’t know where he is, the glass is covering him,” he adds.

Soon after, Galloway shouts: “I think I hit him! I think I hit him!” And he asks his comrades to go and look for the wounded comrade: “Suspected! Go get the agent!”.

At that moment, she entered the building, glass crunching underfoot. Video later shows Galloway approaching the suspect, which he was thrown on the floor next to a rifle

The scenes were released on Tuesday at a press conference by Louisville Metropolitan Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey, who praised the officers for their bravery.

“I think you can see the tension in that video. You can understand the stress those officers were under. They did exactly what they had to do to save lives. been hit,” he said. said Humphrey.

For her part, Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said Wilt – the injured officer in the video – was still hospitalized in critical state but stable.

Also, he said the shooter was identified as Connor Sturgeonwho was a bank employee and purchased the AR-15 assault rifle used in the attack from a local store on April 4th.

With that gun, Sturgeon he killed his collaborators -including a close friend of the governor of Kentucky- before being killed by police.

Eight other people were injured. Four of them had to be admitted to the University of Louisville Hospital: two were admitted to the Intensive Care Unit for their critical condition.

The president of the United States, Joe Bidenhe insisted after the recent shootings in the country that Congress must regulate the gun trade and ban the public sale of assault rifles.

According to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), a non-profit project that tracks gun violence in the United States, So far in 2023, 10,566 accidents have been recorded with firearms, from mass shootings to suicides.

GVA defines a mass shooting as one that ends in four fatalities, either dead or injured, excluding the perpetrator if he died or was injured during the event.