Louisville Bank Mass Shooting Suspect Identified (UPDATES)

The gunman who killed five people and wounded nine others at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky on Monday, before he was shot dead by police, has been identified.

At press conference Monday afternoon, Kentucky officials confirmed 23-year-old Connor Sturgeon as the gunman. He was armed with an AR-15 style rifle and shot dead by police.

Authorities said Sturgeon was recently fired from the bank and left a note for his parents saying he planned to attack the location before carrying out the shooting, which he livestream on Instagram.

“This was an evil act of targeted violence,” said Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg, who knew one of the victims, at a press conference. He noted that he is himself the survivor of a workplace shooting, and that another shooting occurred near the bank at the same time, hammering home the shocking regularity of gun violence in America.

WVUA, a local Alabama network, first reported that the University of Alabama confirmed Sturgeon, a graduate of the college and a former employee of Old National Bank, was the man responsible for the attack that killed two “close friends” of Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear and wounded two police officers.

“This is awful,” Beshear said at a news conference. “I have a very close friend who didn’t make it today. And I have another close friend who didn’t, either. And one who’s at the hospital that I hope is going to make it through.”

“We believe this is a lone gunman involved in this that did have a connection to the bank. We’re trying to establish what that connection was to the business, but it appears he was a previous employee,” Louisville Metro Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey said at a press conference.

A LinkedIn profile appearing to belong to Sturgeon said he worked at the bank as a “Syndications Associate and Portfolio Banker” for nearly two years.

This story is developing and has been updated.