April 11, 2023 - The latest on the Louisville bank shooting

Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey walked through several clips of the incident Tuesday evening. Police said it took about three minutes for the nearest responding officers to arrive.

• Officer Cory "CJ" Galloway: The gunman in Monday's shooting appeared to be waiting for police officers to arrive, Humphrey said. He said the shooter went to the bank's front lobby "after assaulting the victims in the office area." Footage from Galloway's body camera shows police talking about how they can’t see the shooter and that he is shooting through windows. “Shooter has an angle on that officer!” one officer can be heard saying. “We got to get up there!” he adds. Galloway was Wilt's training officer, according to Humphrey.
• Officer Nickolas Wilt: The newly sworn-in officer was shown in body camera footage going back into the line of fire to protect other people, Humphrey said. He said since he was new, he was acting based on "his training and his character" and that he "never hesitates." Wilt was shot in the head and is still in critical condition at the hospital, officials said.
• What happened next: While police attempted to rescue Wilt after he was shot, Galloway's body camera shows the suspect shooting at them "trying to kill them in their process of trying to save Officer Wilt,” Humphrey said. The gunfire broke the bank windows, allowing Galloway to find a vantage point to see where the gunman was located, Humphrey said. This is when Galloway kills the shooter, the deputy chief said. Galloway suffered a minor gunshot wound.
• Bystander video: Another video showed a recording taken by someone in a building across the street. You can see an officer outside the bank.
• Before police arrived: In addition to the surveillance footage, CNN reported that the shooter, identified as a 25-year-old bank employee, live-streamed the attack on Instagram. The video has been taken down. A city official described the footage to CNN, saying the shooter fired his AR-15-style weapon inside the bank for about a minute and then appeared to wait a minute and a half before police arrived.

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said he is already talking with state lawmakers from both parties about gun reform, one day after a mass shooting at a bank killed five people in his city.

Greenberg, who knew one person that was killed, told CNN the victims "should not be dead," as in the case of other people killed by gun violence. While there is a spirit of coming together, he said, “I'm also hopeful we are taking action.”

“We have had enough gun violence in Louisville. We have had enough gun violence in our country and it’s time to take action,” he said, pledging to work with other elected officials and community leaders.

Greenberg wants either statewide action in Kentucky or a change to state laws that would allow him to pass reforms in just his city.

While he has had preliminary conversations with lawmakers at the state capital on both sides of the aisle, he said more meetings are expected to happen in the coming days to “talk about what we can do together”

“This is not about finger-pointing. This isn’t about blame. This isn’t about politics. This is about life and death. And so right now I’m optimistic and hopeful that we can come together to make progress,” Greenberg said.

Police released several minutes of officer body camera video Tuesday evening.

And Greenberg said two things stood out to him about the footage — first is the bravery of the officers who ran into the building, and the second was the tragedy of watching the events unfold.

“Our city is heartbroken” for those killed, the mayor said when asked how the community is reacting.

Juliana Farmer, one of the five people killed in a Louisville bank on Monday, is being remembered by her family as someone who loved life.

Farmer, an employee at the bank, had only recently moved to Louisville from Henderson, Brooks-Scott said. “This was her third week on the job," she said. 

Farmer, 45, leaves behind three children and four grandchildren, Brooks-Scott said. A fifth grandchild is expected to arrive in September, she added.

“I’m hoping that this baby will be born on September 20th because that was her birthday,” she said.

LMPD Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey detailed the tense moments when police attempted to rescue Officer Nickolas Wilt, who was shot in the head as police rushed to the scene of the shooting early Monday.

“As they go up the stairs and attempt to rescue Officer Wilt, the suspect fires at them, trying to kill them in their process of trying to save Officer Wilt,” Humphrey said, describing bodycam video footage released Tuesday from Officer Cory "C.J." Galloway.

Wilt, a 26-year-old rookie officer, is in critical condition at a local hospital. He graduated from the police academy just 11 days ago.

The gunfire broke the bank windows, allowing Galloway to find a vantage point to see where the gunman was located, Humphrey said. “Once he is able to see the threat, he then engages the threat, shoots and kills the suspect."

Galloway suffered a minor gunshot wound.

When the shooting was over, officers and teams from other agencies reentered the bank with supplies and started providing medical treatment right away, Louisville Metro Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey said.

After talking to medical staff, Humphrey said it is "100% certainty" that those swift actions saved lives.

He said EMS need to ride in the back of the ambulance with the patients, but they were short-staffed, so police officers offered to drive so the EMS workers could treat a victim on the way to the hospital.

"That's what we do," he said. "We improvise and we make sure that we do everything we can to keep people safe and take care of them."

The gunman in Monday's shooting appeared to be waiting for police officers to arrive at Old National Bank, according to Louisville Metro Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey.

At a Tuesday news conference, Humphrey said the shooter went to the bank's front lobby "after assaulting the victims in the office area."

"He could see out where no one could see in," Humphrey said.

Body camera footage shows the tense moments between police officers and the gunman, Connor Sturgeon, outside the Monday bank shooting in Louisville. 

Footage from Officer C. Galloway's body camera shows police talking about how they can’t see the shooter and that he is shooting through windows in the bank.

“Shooter has an angle on that officer!” one officer can be heard saying. “We got to get up there!” he adds. 

“Suspect down, get the officer!” one officer yells as he moves up the stairs and into the bank to investigate further.

He had graduated from the police academy just 10 days before the shooting, police said. He is in critical condition at the hospital, officials tell CNN.

Humphrey emphasized the role and mission of police is to protect lives and constitutional rights and that's what officers did during the deadly shooting at a Louisville bank Monday.

Humphrey commended Wilt's bravery. Wilt was shot in the head when police confronted the gunman at the bank.

"Officer Wilt was a brand new officer, he had no experience. He was going based on two things: his training and his character. And you will see that he never hesitates — even after getting shot at — this young man went back in to the line of fire in order to protect others, and you're going to see that and how he made his decisions and how they ultimately protected other people's lives," Humphrey said.