(CNN) — Louisville will host a vigil on Wednesday where members of the community will mourn the deaths of the five people killed this week in a shooting at a downtown bank, as the public absorbs new details that investigators are releasing about how the massacre took place.
The vigil is held a day after the Police made public the spectacular images recorded by body cameras of the shooting this Monday at the Old National Bank, in which, according to the authorities, a 25-year-old employee opened fire on his colleagues and later he got into a shootout with the Police before being shot dead.
The shooter, who broadcast the gruesome assault live online, killed five of his co-workers around 8:30 a.m. in Kentucky’s most populous city, about 30 minutes before the store opened, authorities said. Several more people were hospitalized, including a rookie police officer who was shot in the head and was in critical condition on Tuesday.
“Our city is heartbroken,” Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Tuesday night. “These five victims should not be dead, just like everyone else who was killed by gun violence in our city, in our country, should not be dead.”
It is still unclear what prompted the attacker to go on the killing spree. While the investigation continues, authorities hope to release audio of the 911 calls about the shooting Wednesday, the mayor said.
In addition, the city will hold a vigil this Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville.
The vigil “will acknowledge the wounds, physical and emotional, that gun violence leaves behind,” Greenberg told reporters Tuesday. “It will be an interfaith opportunity for our entire community to come together: to grieve, to heal, to start moving forward.”
What the body camera recordings show
Louisville Police released body camera video of officers responding to another mass shooting in the United States on Tuesday.
The public footage begins with a video of Officer Nickolas Wilt – a 26-year-old rookie who had graduated from a police academy just 10 days earlier – heading to the scene with his training officer, Cory “CJ” Galloway.
As Wilt ran towards the gunfire faced by officers upon arrival, he was shot in the head, police said. The released version of Wilt’s recording cuts out before he is shot.
Galloway’s body cam footage shows him being shot at, then retreating to a safe position behind a flower pot as officers talk about how they can’t see the gunman, and that he is shooting through front windows. front of the bank. At some point, Galloway was also shot.
The attacker eventually broke glass windows in the bank’s lobby, giving agents a view of his location, Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey said.
Galloway shot and killed the assailant, Humphrey said.
The entire situation — from when the shooter began firing his assault weapon until he was shot dead by police — lasted about nine minutes, according to Louisville Police Lt. Col. Aaron Cromwell.
Those killed in the shooting were Joshua Barrick, 40; Juliana Farmer, 45; Deana Eckert, 57; Tommy Elliott, 63; and James Tutt, 64, according to police.
Nine people — including Eckert, before he died Monday — were hospitalized after the shooting, authorities said. Among the eight current survivors, five had been discharged as of Tuesday, a hospital spokesman said.
Law enforcement officers arrive at the scene of the shooting in downtown Louisville on Monday. Credit: Michael Clevenger/AP
The three victims who remained hospitalized on Tuesday included Wilt, who underwent brain surgery and was in critical condition, and two others who were in fair condition, according to the hospital spokesman.
Monday’s mass shooting in Louisville was one of at least 147 mass shootings in the United States this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which like CNN defines a mass shooting as four or more people shot, not including the shooter. .
The shooting occurred within a minute, according to an official
The assailant took a minute to complete the bloodbath before stopping and waiting for the police to arrive, according to images of the massacre described by a municipal official to CNN.
The shooter, identified by police as 25-year-old Connor Sturgeon, had livestreamed the gruesome attack on Instagram, a video that has since been removed.
The Instagram video begins by showing an AR-15-style weapon, followed by a bank worker saying good morning to the shooter, the official said.
The gunman then tries to shoot him in the back, but misses because the safety is on and the gun still needs to be loaded, the official said. Once the assailant loads the gun correctly and removes the safety, he shoots the worker in the back, the official said.
The assailant then continues his rampage, shooting at the workers as they try to run away from him, according to the official. The attacker does not go to other inhabited floors of the bank, according to the official.
After he finishes shooting, he sits in the lobby area facing the street, apparently waiting for police, the official said.
Police arrive about a minute and a half later, according to the official, at which point a shootout ensues before police end up shooting and killing the assailant.
Sturgeon had interned at the bank for three summers and had been working there full-time for about two years, according to her LinkedIn profile. The attacker had been notified that he would be fired from the bank, a police source said Monday.
The mayor, however, said he does not believe the shooter received a notice of dismissal.
“From what a bank official has told me, that’s not accurate,” Greenberg told reporters on Tuesday.
The gun was purchased legally
Sturgeon used an AR-15 rifle in the shooting, according to police. Six days before the slayings, he legally purchased the rifle from a local gun store, Louisville’s acting police chief said Tuesday.
The employees were holding their morning meeting in a conference room when the gunman opened fire, bank manager Rebecca Buchheit-Sims told CNN.
She said the massacre “happened very quickly.” Buchheit-Sims attended the staff meeting virtually and watched in horror as gunshots exploded on her computer screen.
“I witnessed people being killed,” he told CNN. “I don’t know how else to say it.”
An old high school classmate of Sturgeon’s who knew him and his family well said he never saw any “type of red alert or sign that this could happen.”
“This is a total shock. He was a really good kid who came from a really good family,” said the classmate, who asked not to be named and has not spoken to Sturgeon in recent years. “I can’t even tell you how nonsense this is. I can’t believe it.”
CNN’s Mark Morales, Laura Ly, John Miller, Celina Tebor, Artemis Moshtaghian, Rob Frehse, Curt Devine and Liam Reilly contributed to this report.