Watch: Dramatic footage shows moment Kentucky police gun down bank attacker who livestreamed massacre

12 April 2023, 11:55

Bodycam footage reveals the tense standoff between police and the Louisville financial institution shooter.

The footage reveals the second officers raced to the scene in Kentucky as an worker, Connor Sturgeon, killed 5 of his colleagues in a rampage on Monday.

It reveals how Officer Nickolas Wilt was hit within the head as he approached the financial institution. He stays in a essential situation.

Footage from Cory Galloway’s bodycam sees him fall as Sturgeon opens hearth from the Outdated Nationwide Financial institution, then, having been hit, he runs to cowl down some stairs in entrance of the constructing.

Dramatic footage reveals second Louisville police confront and kill financial institution gunman

He tilts both aspect of his cowl to attempt to spot the shooter as gunshots ring out.

“The shooter has an angle on that officer, we have to stand up there – I do not know the place he is at, the glass is obstructing him,” he tells a colleague as he nonetheless tries to see the attacker.

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The officers focus on how they’ll hear a “blue” speaking – a reference to one in all their colleagues.

“I haven’t got an angle,” Galloway says as gunfire breaks out and Sturgeon is shot useless.

“I feel he is down – get down, now!” he shouts after the gunshots. “Suspect down, get the officer.”

Talking at a press convention the place the footage was proven to journalists, deputy chief Paul Humphrey stated the gunman broke glass from the financial institution’s foyer to open hearth at Galloway and Wilt approached.

“Officer Wilt was a model new officer, he had no expertise. He was going primarily based on two issues: his coaching and his character. And you will notice that he by no means hesitates – even after getting shot at,” he stated.

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Police then entered the financial institution and began serving to the victims, which medics later stated actually helped save lives.

Officer Wilt was taken to hospital.

Sturgeon, 25, legally purchased an AR-15 sort rifle six days earlier than the capturing.

It’s unclear what led him to bloodbath his colleagues on the financial institution, which he livestreamed on Instagram.

Sturgeon attacked the financial institution for a couple of minute after which waited for police to reach.

He had labored on the financial institution for about two years, having beforehand interned there.

His dwelling has been searched however particulars about what was discovered inside haven’t been launched.