Five dead after shooting in downtown Louisville, Kentucky
Law enforcement officers respond after a shooting near the Old National Bank building on Apr 10, 2023 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo: LUKE SHARRETT/ GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/Getty Images via AFP)
LOUISVILLE: Five people were killed and six others hospitalised in a shooting at a bank building Monday morning (Apr 10) in downtown Louisville, police said.
Louisville Metro Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey told reporters that officers who arrived on the scene “encountered active gunshots still being fired inside the location at that time".
“The shooter was confirmed to be dead on the scene,” Humphrey said. “We do not know exactly the circumstances of his death at this time.”
Witnesses who left the building told Louisville station WHAS-TV they heard gunfire inside the building.
"I was at the stoplight, and the first thing that I saw - there was a guy across the street at the intersection and he was lying down at the entrance to a hotel," an eyewitness told WDRB, a local Fox TV affiliate.
Numerous police vehicles were seen on television footage. WHAS reporters said they saw people being taken from the scene in ambulances.
The shooting happened in a building on East Main Street that houses the Old National Bank, not far from its Slugger Field baseball stadium.
In a tweet, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said he was heading to the scene.
“Please pray for all of the families impacted and for the city of Louisville,” Beshear said.
The FBI said its agents were also responding to the shooting.
