5 Dead and 8 Injured in Shooting in Louisville, Ky Police Say
At least five people were killed and
eight others were injured in a shooting at a bank in downtown Louisville, Ky.,
on Monday morning, the police said. The suspected gunman died at the scene. …
Paul Humphrey,
the deputy chief of the Louisville Metro Police Department, said that the
police received calls around 8:30 a.m. about a shooting at Old National Bank
and when they arrived on the scene, “they encountered the suspect almost
immediately, still firing gunshots.”…
Chief Humphrey
said that the gunman, whose name was not immediately released, was confirmed
dead at the scene. “We do not know exactly the circumstances of his death at
this time,” he said. It was not clear if the gunman was included among the five
dead…
The police did not say what
the gunman’s motive was, but they said that he had a connection to the bank and
may have been a current or former employee. “We believe this is a lone gunman
involved in this that did have a connection to the bank,” Chief Humphrey said
at a news conference….
