2023 Louisville bank shooting

On the morning of April 10, 2023, a mass shooting occurred at an Old National Bank branch located on the first floor of the Preston Pointe building on East Main Street in Louisville, Kentucky. The shooter, 25-year-old former bank employee Connor James Sturgeon, arrived at the bank around 8:15 a.m. EDT, retrieved a gym bag from his car, and went to his office. Shortly before 8:35 a.m., he began an Instagram livestream from his cellphone before emerging from his office armed with an AR-15 style rifle and three loaded magazines.

Sturgeon first confronted a female co-worker, shooting her in the leg after an initial misfire, then shot a male co-worker to death in a hallway before opening fire into a conference room where 13 people were attending an in-person and virtual meeting. He fired 25–30 rounds into the room over roughly 23 seconds, killing four people and wounding others, including some hiding under the conference table. He then paced the first floor for several minutes before firing on an arriving police vehicle and on two civilians in the lobby without hitting them. When officers Nickolas Wilt and Cory Galloway approached on foot, Sturgeon, identified by police as the gunman, shot both of them along with a civilian across the street. Approximately five minutes after police arrived, Officer Galloway shot and killed Sturgeon, ending the incident.

Five Old National Bank employees were killed: Josh Barrick, 40; Deana Eckert, 57 (who died later that day at the hospital); Tommy Elliott, 63; Juliana Farmer, 45; and Jim Tutt, 64. Tommy Elliott, the bank's senior vice president, was a personal friend and mentor of Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear. Nine injured people, including the two police officers, were treated at University of Louisville Hospital; three were released the same afternoon, three remained hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, and three required surgery for critical wounds, including one officer who underwent brain surgery.

Sturgeon, raised in Greenville, Indiana, and a graduate of Floyd Central High School and the University of Alabama, had worked at Old National Bank since June 2021. Family members said he suffered from depression and had a history of concussions from playing football. Prior to the attack, he told a friend he felt suicidal and wanted to kill as many people at the bank as possible. He had legally purchased the rifle six days earlier and left notes stating part of his intent was to demonstrate how easily a person with mental illness could obtain a firearm, and cited targeting "upper class white people" as part of his stated motive regarding gun access.

The FBI and ATF assisted the Louisville Metro Police Department's investigation. Sturgeon's brain was later tested for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE); results released in November 2023 found no evidence of the condition. The bank building closed after the shooting and reopened at a new Louisville location in June 2023. Kentucky officials, including Governor Beshear, Senator Mitch McConnell, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg, and President Joe Biden, publicly responded, with Biden renewing calls for gun-control legislation.