PICTURED: 'Suicidal' Louisville bank employee shooter Connor Sturgeon, 25, who shot dead four co-workers - and injured nine others including a cop

The gunman who opened fire during a morning conference at the Old National Bank in downtown Louisville, Kentucky and killed four people has been identified as a employee at the bank.

Authorities say Connor Sturgeon, 25, was responsible for the latest mass shooting on Monday at 8.30am when he entered the bank with an AR-15 style assault rifle and started firing. Police, however, said he was 23.

Sturgeon's LinkedIn profile shows that he was employed for just one year at the bank as a syndications associate and portfolio banker after previously serving as an intern. It also shows that he earned a Master's in Finance from the University of Alabama, which the university later confirmed.

During the shooting, it was overheard on police scanners that Sturgeon was 'suicidal and texted a friend that he would "shoot up the bank."' Police also confirmed that Sturgeon livestreamed the shooting on his Instagram, which has since been taken down.

A motive for the mass shooting, in which he allegedly killed four others and injured nine, remains unclear, though unconfirmed reports suggest he was suicidal and disgruntled with his workplace.

The victims have also been identified as Joshua Barrick, 40; Thomas Elliott, 63; Juliana Farmer, 45; and James Tutt, 64.

Elliott was a major Democratic donor, whom Gov. Andy Beshear. And police officer Nicholas Wilt, 26, is now in critical condition after being shot in the head.

The gunman was also killed in the shooting, but it is unclear if he died from a self-inflicted wound or from injuries he sustained as he exchanged gunfire with officers at the scene.

Sturgeon grew up in Louisville and Indiana, and played basketball at the Floyd Central High School, where his father, Todd, served as the coach.

[There are tons of people walking around who have suffered several concussions in their young lives, and few have gone on to kill others.

I’d be more interested in seeing if this guy was on any kind of pharmaceuticals, like ADHD meds or anti-depressants.]

The brain is a very complex organ. It may depend what part of it was damaged. You can lose your sense of smell, become paralyzed, etc. Every concussion is different. It’s one reason for bike riders to always wear a helmet. There are more ways than you can shake a stick at to destroy your normal functioning through a head injury.

[Yes, this is true. Do we have a lot of mass murderers that had concussions? If you see a stat on that, I’d be interested.]

Unfortunately, no real data, in the sense of detailed autopsies carefully categorized, culminating in a statistically-significant finding. Whitman’s brain was looked at using whatever tools were available at the time. Kind of inconclusive, based on what little they were able to find. A growth that might or might not have contributed to the spasm of violence that ended so many lives that day. Would we be able to do better today? Who knows?

It’s not so much that it’s unknowable so much as medicine is said to be the youngest science. We’re simply not that far removed from leeches, whose usage ended only with the turn of the 20th century, and medicine is actually pretty complex.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman#Death_and_inquest
[Connally Commission

John Connally, then governor of Texas, commissioned a task force to examine the autopsy findings and material related to Whitman’s actions and motives. The commission was composed of neurosurgeons, psychiatrists, pathologists, psychologists, including the University of Texas Health Center Directors, John White and Maurice Heatly. The commission’s toxicology tests revealed nothing significant. They examined Chenar’s paraffin blocks of the brain tumor, stained specimens of it and Whitman’s other brain tissue, in addition to the remainder of the autopsy specimens available.[63]

Following a three-hour hearing on August 5,[64] the commission concluded that Chenar’s finding had been in error.[65] They found that the tumor had features of a glioblastoma multiforme, with widespread areas of necrosis, palisading of cells,[62] and a “remarkable vascular component” described as having “the nature of a small congenital vascular malformation”. Psychiatric contributors to the report concluded that “the relationship between the brain tumor and [...] Whitman’s actions [...] cannot be established with clarity. However, the [...] tumor conceivably could have contributed to his inability to control his emotions and actions”,[66] while the neurologists and neuropathologists concluded: “The application of existing knowledge of organic brain function does not enable us to explain the actions of Whitman on August first.”[67]

Forensic investigators have theorized that the tumor pressed against Whitman’s amygdala, a part of the brain related to anxiety and fight-or-flight responses.[68][69] ]

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