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Everything We Know About Louisville Bank Shooter Connor Sturgeon

A lone gunman stormed a bank in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday morning, killing five people and injuring eight others before dying in a confrontation with police.

Officials later identified the suspect as Connor Sturgeon, 25.

High School Athletic Career

Back when he was a freshman at the Floyd Central High School in Floyds Knobs, Indiana, Sturgeon was an all-round athlete, playing basketball, football and running track.

As his father was the head coach of the team, a former classmate told The Daily Beast Sturgeon was known as “Mr. Floyd Central.”

However, the classmate, who asked to remain anonymous, noted Sturgeon oddly wore a helmet while playing basketball due to multiple concussions he suffered while playing football.

“We played football together in eighth grade. He was out most of the year because he had multiple concussions,” he said. “Then he had a couple more in high school.”

A photo from Sturgeon’s junior year with the Floyd Central High School basketball team showed him wearing a helmet at a game where he scored nearly half the team’s points.

The classmate said he couldn’t help but think about Sturgeon’s high school injuries and link them to other incidents where athletes who have suffered concussion have gone on to harm themselves or others.

During his senior year, Sturgeon won the 2016 News and Tribune Sports Performance Yearly Award for Boys Track Athlete of the year.

Anti-Trump and Pro-Lockdown Posts

Connor Sturgeon has been revealed to have posted anti-Trump and pro-lockdown posts on Reddit.

“This moron,” said one post made two years ago by CSturg41 in reference to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, citing a tweet from CNN reporter Oliver Darcy.

“‘It is hard to see how we return to a normal media landscape after this,’ @TuckerCarlson says without a hint of irony. ‘I never imagined we’d live in a Country like this,” the Darcy post read.

“Every time Trump tweets some racist sh*t,” the strong character responds, with the Trump portion of the comment being added in later in a different font. “I do one push-up,” the character continued. “Jesus Christ,” the smaller character responds.

Another post from the beginning of the pandemic showed the headline “Health officials advise people to work at home, postpone gatherings to slow spread of coronavirus” overlaid on top of a photo of children at a hibachi-style restaurant.

One child, labeled “introverts,” had an excited look on their face, whole another child, labeled “the general public,” appeared to be crying. “Finally, an excuse to stay in without being a bad person,” CSturg41 wrote.

In regards to one post titled “Trump retreats to Alabama, just so he can finally be cheered at a sporting event. lol, what a frail pathetic thin-skinned loser” Sturgeon wrote “I’ll be doing my part to make sure it is not the warm response he’s looking for.”

Education and Employment

After graduating high school, Sturgeon went on to the University of Alabama to study finance, earning his master of science in finance in 2020.

While attending the university, Sturgeon worked as a summer intern for the Old National Bank for three consecutive years, eventually joining as a commercial development professional in 2021 and a full-time associate and portfolio banker last year, according to his LinkedIn account.

The Shooting

While his Instagram account where he filmed the shooting has been taken down, screengrabs shared by local reporters show Sturgeon appearing unsteady in the hours leading up to the shooting.

His alleged final posts — which couldn’t immediately be verified by The Post — included meme photos with the captions: “I know what I have to do but I don’t know if I have the strength to do it,” and “I could burn this whole place down.”

His last post allegedly read: “They won’t listen to words or protests. Let’s see if they hear this.”

Police are still working to determine a motive for the deadly shooting, where the four victims were identified as high ranking members of the Louisville bank branch.

Sturgeon had learned he was about to be fired from the bank, according to CNN, who said he also left a note for his parents and a friend explaining his intention to go and shoot up the bank.

Among the victims was Tommy Elliott, 63, and Joshua Barrick, 40, both senior vice presidents; Jim Tutt, 64, a market executive; Juliana Farmer, 45, a commercial loan specialist; and Deanna Eckert, 57, an executive administrative officer.

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