At least four people were killed and at least eight injured in a shooting at a bank in downtown Louisville on Monday, police said.
Louisville Metro Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey said at a press conference that police arrived and exchanged gunfire with the gunman while gunfire was still firing at the Old National Bank.
It was unclear whether the shooter committed suicide or was shot by an officer.
At least eight people are being treated for injuries in hospital, Humphrey said, including two police officers, one of whom is in critical condition.
Andy Beshear said he lost his friend in a shooting at a building on East Main Street not far from Louisville Slugger Field and Waterfront Park. “I have a very close friend who was unable to attend today.
In late 2021, Dawson Springs, the hometown of his Beshear father, who served as governor of Kentucky for two years, was one of the cities devastated by a tornado that hit Kentucky.
Andy Beshear frequented his Dawson Springs during his boyhood and spoke emotionally about his father’s hometown.
Deputy Chief Humphrey said the actions of Louisville police officers in their response Monday morning undoubtedly saved lives.
“His 15 mass shootings this year are the most in the first 100 days of a calendar year since 2009, when there were 16 as of April 10,” The Associated Press and USA Today, in collaboration with Northeastern, said. According to the mass murder database it maintains, the University.
Since 2006, the first year the data were compiled, 2019 and 2022 had the highest number of genocides, with 45 and 42 genocides recorded over the calendar years.
The pace of 2009 slowed later in the year when he recorded 32 mass murders in that year.
