Police identify suspect in Louisville shooting and give more details on victims

ITS OWN, BUT THE UNITED STATES IS IN THE MIDDLE. >> WE WANT TO TAKE YOU TO LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, WHERE POLICE AND STATE OFFICIALS ARE SPEAKING ABOUT THE MASS SHOOTING IN A DOWNTOWN BANK BUILDING. LET’S LISTEN. >> THE SUSPECT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS CONNER STURGON WHO WAS EMPLOYED AT THE BANK AND HIS WEAPON OF CHOICE WAS A RIFLE AND WE HAVE FIVE TOTAL DECEASED AND I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE WITH HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES AND PRAYERS TO THE FAMILY OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIKE TODAY. TOMMY ELLIOTT, 63 YEARS OF AGE. JIM, 64 YEARS OF AGE AND JOSH BARRETT,

40 YEARS OF AGE AND JULIANA FARMER, 57 . WE HAVE A TOTAL OF NINE VICTIMS WHO ARE BEING TREATED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE HOSPITAL AND THREE IN CRITICAL CONDITION, INCLUDING THE OFFICER AND THREE LISTED IN NOT CRITICAL CONDITION AND THREE WHO HAVE BEEN TREATED AND RELEASED. THE OF ASSOCIATE IN GUNFIRE ONE OF THE OFFICERS WAS GRAZED TO THE LEFT SIDE AND THE OTHER OFFICER SUFFERED INJURIES TO THE ELBOW. I JUST WANTED TO LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT THE OFFICER IN CRITICAL CONDITION TODAY, OFFICER NICHOLAS WILT, 26 YEARS OF AGE , JUST GRADUATED FROM THE POLICE

ACADEMY MARCH 31. I JUST SWEAR HIM IN AND HIS FAMILY WAS THERE TO WITNESS HIS JOURNEY TO THE CHIEF, THE GOVERNOR, AND MYSELF, WE VISITED WITH THEIR FAMILIES TO OFFER SUPPORT AND THEIR LOVE DURING THIS UNTHINKABLE DAY. WE WILL

CONTINUE TO OFFER OUR SUPPORT AND LOVE AND ANYTHING ELSE THAT WE CAN PROVIDE TO HELP THEM WE WERE ALSO THERE ALONG WITH SEVERAL OF MY COLLEAGUES TO THANK AND SUPPORT THE OFFICERS FOR THEIR HEROIC WORK TODAY AND EVERY DAY AND TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE GRADUATING CLASS WHO WAS THERE TO SUPPORT THEIR COLLEAGUE AS HE

CONTINUES TO FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE. THIS WAS AN EVIL ACT OF VIOLENCE AND TO ADD TO THIS TRAGEDY SHORTLY AFTER THIS HAPPENED ANOTHER MAN LOST HIS LIFE AND A WOMAN WAS SHOT IN A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ACTIVE TARGETED VIOLENCE AND THEY APPEAR TO BE NOT RELATED BUT THEY BOTH TOOK LIVES AND LEAVE PEOPLE SCARRED AND ANGRY. I SHARE ALL OF THOSE FEELINGS MYSELF. THIS IS DIFFICULT FOR ALL OF US TO PROCESS. I ASK THAT WE RESPECT THE NEEDS OF THE FAMILIES AND THE LOVED ONES OF THOSE WHOSE LIVES WERE LOST TODAY AN THOSE WHOSE LIFE WILL

NEVER BE THE SAME. I AM A SURVIVOR OF A WORKPLACE SHOOTING. TO THE PEOPLE WHO SURVIVED, WITH EVA PHYSICALLY HURT OR NOT, I KNOW THAT YOU ARE HURTING ALSO. WE ARE HERE FOR YOU AS WELL. TO THE SURVIVORS FAMILIES, HER ENTIRE CITY IS HERE TO WRAP OUR ARMS AROUND YOU AND THERE IS A FAMILY ASSISTANCE CENTER THROUGH THE RED CROSS TO PROVIDE SUPPORT AND SERVICES TO THOSE FAMILIES TODAY AND IN THE COMING DAYS AND WEEKS AND MONTHS AHEAD TO PROVIDE YOU WITH WHATEVER YOU NEED TO DEAL WITH THE TRAUMA OF THIS MOMENT. THE SAME APPLIES

TO FIRST RESPONDERS. OUR CITY IS HERE FOR EVERYONE IMPACTED. WE ARE A STRONG CITY. WE WILL BE HERE FOR SUPPORT. AS THE CHIEF MENTIONED, THE OFFICERS WENT INTO THE BUILDING KNOWING THAT THEY WERE RISKING THEIR LIVES TO SAVE OTHERS. THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY DID. THEY EXCHANGED GUNFIRE WITH THE SHOOTER. TO OFFICER NICK WILT AND HIS FAMILY, WE WILL CONTINUE TO PRAY AND SUPPORT YOU AND FOR THE OTHERS INJURED, THANK YOU AND ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TODAY AND EVERY DAY. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK OTHER FIRST RESPONDERS. THE JEFFERSON COUNTY SHERIFF AND

STATE AND FEDERAL AGENCIES WHO ARE HELPING US THIS TIME AND TO DR. SMITH AND ALL OF THE DOCTORS AND NURSES AND TIM FOR YOUR WORK TODAY AND EVERY DAY. YOU ARE SAVING LIVES IN THEIR CITY. THANK YOU. FOR THE REST OF US , LET’S PROVIDE COMFORT WHERE WE CAN. THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE DONE IN THE PAST AND WHAT WE MUST CONTINUE TO DO NOW. WE HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED OFFERS TO ASSIST FROM PEOPLE IN THE CITY AND COUNTRY AND BY THE END OF THE DAY WE WILL PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT HOW TO PROVIDE TO THOSE IMPACTED

TODAY WE WILL ALSO HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT A VIGIL FOR THE ACTS OF VIOLENCE THAT HAPPENED TODAY AND ANY DAY IN OUR CITY. WE WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH STRENGTH AND PRAYER AND LOVE AND SUPPORT AND DETERMINATION. THANK YOU . I WILL NOW TURN OVER TO GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR. >> TODAY IS A TRAGIC DAY IN LOUISVILLE AND FOR THE ENTIRE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY. ACTS OF VIOLENCE LIKE THIS HURT . THEY TEAR AT THE FABRIC OF WHO WE ARE AND IN THIS CITY. TODAY I AM HURTING AND I KNOW THAT SO MANY PEOPLE ARE AS WELL.

WE LOST FOUR CHILDREN OF GOD TODAY AND ONE OF WHOM WAS MY CLOSEST FRIEND. TOMMY ELLIOTT HELPED ME TO BECOME GOVERNOR AND GAVE ME ADVICE ON BEING A GOOD DAD AND ONE OF THE PEOPLE I TALKED TO MOST. HE WAS AN INCREDIBLE FRIEND. WE ALSO LOST JULIANA FARMER , JOSH BARRETT, AND JIM TUTT. THEY ARE IRREPLACEABLE INDIVIDUALS AND WE ALSO PRAY FOR OFFICER AND TWO OTHERS THAT ARE STILL FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIFE WITH A NEED FOR OUR CARE AND PRAYERS BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT PRAYERS LIFT US UP AND THOSE FAMILIES WOULD APPRECIATE THEM. AND WHILE

I HURT TODAY I AM ALSO GRATEFUL FOR AN INCREDIBLY QUICK RESPONSE FROM LMPD, JEFFERSON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, LOUISVILLE FIRE AND RESCUE AND GETTING TO THE SCENE IN THREE MINUTES AND SAVED AT THEIR LIVES AND I KNOW SAVED TWO OF MY FRIENDS. ONE I RECEIVED INCORRECT INFORMATION THIS MORNING AND I THOUGHT WAS GONE AND NOW I KNOW THAT IT IS OKAY. IT WAS SO GOOD TO SEE MY FRIEND WITH HIS WIFE AND TO KNOW THAT HE IS STILL WITH US AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FBI AND EVERY AGENCY THAT WILL BRING THEIR RESOURCES SO

THAT WE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED IN THIS SITUATION. THERE IS MORE FIRST RESPONDERS THAN THOSE THAT ARE LISTED BECAUSE OF THE TEAM UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE HOSPITAL. PAEA FIRST RESPONDERS TOO. THE FIRST BATTLE A STOP IN THE GUNMAN AND THE SECOND IS DOING EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN TO KEEP THOSE WOUNDED LIFE. I AM REALLY PROUD OF WHAT HIS TEAM IS DOING I WAS IN THE ROOM WHERE ONE OF THOSE FAMILIES GOT AN UPDATE. IT WAS SPECIFIC BUT PROVIDED WITH COMPASSION. THESE DOCTORS AND NURSES ARE FIGHTING FOR THE LIFE OF FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND WE ARE GRATEFUL

TO THEM. WHAT WE NEED MOST NOW IS LOVE FOR THESE FAMILIES. THEY ARE GOING TO NEED IT. I CAN TELL YOU. I HAVE TALKED TO THEM. I AM VERY CLOSE WITH ONE OF THEM. THEY ARE GOING TO NEED THAT LOVE. IT SEEMS LIKE WE ARGUE SO MUCH IN THIS COUNTRY. SO MUCH ANGER. I STILL BELIEVE THAT COMPASSION AND HUMANITY CAN LEAD US TO A BETTER PLACE. THIS IS REALLY HARD THE DAY AFTER EASTER. IT IS ABOUT A WORLD WHERE WE ARE ALL SUPPOSED TO WORK TOGETHER TO GET TO A BETTER WORLD AND TEACHERS LOVE FROM

A SAVIOR THAT CAME. I BELIEVE THAT WHAT WE CAN DO WHETHER IT IS ANY FAITH OR VALUES IS TO ENSURE THAT TODAY MORE THAN ANYTHING IS ABOUT THE FAMILIES WHO ARE AFRAID THEY WILL LOSE A LOVED ONE AND THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN THROUGH THE WORST AND WILL BEAR THE SCARS INSIDE AND OUTSIDE TODAY. IT IS GOT TO BE ABOUT THEM THE ACTION OF EVERYONE WHO RESPONDED. I KNOW IN THE DAYS TO COME WE WILL TALK ABOUT ISSUES BUT THE THING THAT PEOPLE GET DRUNK AFTER THE MOST DIFFICULT DAYS IS THAT TODAY TO BE FOCUSED ON

MY FRIEND AND I AND EVERYONE ELSE’S FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES WHO ARE NO LONGER WITH US. WHILE THE BODY IS MORTAL, THE SOUL IS ETERNAL AND I KNOW THAT I WILL SEE TOMMY AGAIN AND ON THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND THIS COMMUNITY WILL BE REUNITED IN A BETTER PLACE WITHOUT VIOLENCE AND WITHOUT THE HURT THAT WE FEEL TODAY. WE WILL GET THROUGH THIS TOGETHER. IT IS THE ONLY WAY WE WILL MARCH FORWARD. MY HOPE IS THAT IN HONOR OF THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN TODAY AS WE CAN BE BETTER AND DO BETTER AND LOVE EACH OTHER

JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE. TODAY TO HONOR THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN, I’M ORDERING OUR FLAGS TO FLY AT HALF STAFF UNTIL FRIDAY . FRIDAY EVENING. TO MAKE SURE THAT WE PAY TRIBUTE IN EVERY SINGLE PART OF THIS COMMONWEALTH THAT WE HAVE LOST. WE ARE UNITED WITH THE CITY AND UNITED WITH THESE FAMILIES. WE HAVE HAD TO WRAP OUR ARMS AROUND EACH OTHER, AND WE NEED TO DO IT HERE. NEXT WE ARE GOING TO HEAR FROM DR. SMITH, WHO IS LEADING AN INCREDIBLE TEAM TO MAKE SURE MANY HARMED IN THIS INCIDENT GET THERE IT. HE AND

HIS HOSPITAL HAVE MY FULL SUPPORT AND CONFIDENCE. WHAT THEY ARE DOING IS NOTHING SHORT OF AMAZING. WHILE WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE OUTCOME COULD BE, WE SHOULD APPRECIATE THEM FOR DOING THEIR VERY BEST. >> YOU BEEN LISTENING TO OFFICIALS IN LOUISVILLE DISCUSSED THE SHOOTING THIS MORNING AT OLD NATIONAL BANK. THE POLICE CHIEF IDENTIFIED THE SUSPECT, A 23-YEAR-OLD AND THE FOUR VICTIMS WHO DIED AND THEY ARE TOMMY ELLIOTT , A 63-YEAR- OLD. WE HEARD FROM GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR WHO SPOKE ABOUT TOMMY ELLIOTT IS HIS FRIEND AND THE OTHER VICTIMS ARE JIM TUTT , JOSH BARRETT,

JULIANA FARMER , AND WE ALSO HEARD FROM THE MAYOR OF LOUISVILLE CRAIG GREENBERG WHO WAS TARGETED HIMSELF I GUN VIOLENCE LAST YEAR SOMEONE HAD WALKED INO HIS CAMPAIGN AND SHUT. HE WAS NOT HIT BY THE BULLET, BUT IT DID GRAZE HIM. IT HITS CLOSE TO HOME. WE ARE GOING TO SPEAK RIGHT NOW TO HOMELAND SECURITY REPORTER NICOLE SGANGA. WE UNDERSTAND THAT THERE WAS THESE FOUR VICTIMS AND THAT THE SHOOTER IS A 23-YEAR-OLD CONNOR STURGEON WHAT ELSE ARE WE LEARNING ABOUT THIS INCIDENT? >> Reporter: IN ADDITION TO LEARNING ABOUT THE SUSPECT, WE LEARNED THAT THE WEAPON

OF CHOICE WAS A RIFLE THAT THE FIVE DECEASED IN THIS CASE DID INCLUDE THE SHOOTER IN ADDITION TO THE FOUR VICTIMS RANGING 40 THROUGH 64 YEARS OLD. WE ARE LEARNING A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THOSE INJURED. THERE WERE NINE THAT WERE TREATED AT THE ESPINAL AND THREE REMAIN IN CRITICAL CONDITION AND THREE ARE IN NON- CRITICAL CONDITION. THREE HAVE BEEN RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL. WE ARE ALSO LEARNING A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE MEMBER OF THE LOUISVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT WHO REMAINS IN CRITICAL CONDITION AND HIS NAME IS OFFICER NICK WILT AND HE IS JUST 26

YEARS OLD . HE GRADUATED DAYS AGO FROM THE POLICE ACADEMY AND THE POLICE CHIEF SAID HE WAS SWORN IN ON MARCH 31 SURROUNDED BY HIS FAMILY. HIS GRADUATING CLASS WAS WITH HIM AT THE HOSPITAL TODAY. HE WAS HIT IN THE HEAD AND HAS COME OUT OF BRAIN SURGERY. THE POLICE CHIEF SAID THAT HE REMAINS IN CRITICAL BUT STABLE CONDITION. THE POLICE ARE CALLING THIS A LONG AND A COMPLICATED INVESTIGATION AND ARE THINKING THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE POLICE AND ENCOURAGING ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC WHO KNOWS MORE TO STEP I WOULD AND SAID THAT EVIL SHOULD NOT

PREVAIL. >> AND I AM JUST CURIOUS. WHEN THESE THINGS HAPPEN, THE MAJOR FOCUS IS ON THE VICTIMS AND ON THE FAMILIES AND OF THOSE WHO ARE RECOVERING. IN THIS CASE, IT IS NINE PEOPLE. ALSO ON THE POLICE RESPONSE, WE KNOW THAT THIS WAS A BANK . WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE FEDERAL OFFICIALS AND THEIR RESPONSE? >> WE KNOW THAT THE FBI AND THE ATF ON THE SCENE. AT THIS POINT, THEY WOULD BE GOING THROUGH WHAT WAS KNOWN ABOUT THE SUSPECT AND TRYING TO FIND OUT MORE DETAILS REGARDING A MOTIVE. WE KNOW THAT THE SUSPECT IN

THIS CASE WAS AN EMPLOYEE OF OLD NATIONAL BANK . THIS INDIVIDUAL WAS EMPLOYED BY THE BANK BUT LITTLE REGARDING THE MOTIVE AND ALSO LOOKING FOR AMMUNITION. TRYING TO GO BACK AND BREAK DOWN A TIMELINE. WE KNOW THAT THIS BEGAN AT OLD NATIONAL BANK ON EAST MAIN STREET AT ABOUT 8:30 A.M., 30 MINUTES BEFORE THE BANK OPENED. WE KNOW WITHIN THREE MINUTES OF BEING DISPATCHED POLICE ARRIVED ON THE SCENE AND THEY SAW THE SHOOTER FIRING OFF AND REALLY TRYING TO DETERMINE HOW IT ALL PLAYED OUT AND TRYING TO IDENTIFY A MOTIVE AND POLICE WILL HAVE A

LEAD IN UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS WAS AN EMPLOYEE OF THE BANK. >> I WAS JUST LOOKING UP A FEW MINUTES AGO BECAUSE I WAS CURIOUS ABOUT THE SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED NATIONAL. I KNOW THEY ARE LOOKING INTO THE MOTIVE STILL AND THAT THIS IS THE FOCUS OF THE INVESTIGATION BUT WHEN DO YOU THINK WE SHOULD LEARN MORE DETAILS? WE HAVE NOT SEEN THIS MANIFESTO. IN CASES LIKE THESE, WHEN CAN WE LEARN MORE? >> Reporter: IT COULD TAKE DAYS AND IT COULD TAKE WEEKS. WE WILL BE SEARCHING OVER THE SCENE. WE HAVE SEEN THIS SORT OF VIDEO THIS

MORNING OF THE POLICE ROPE STILL IN PLACE AND THEY ARE GOING CAR BY CAR JUST SEARCHING THE SURROUNDING AREA. POLICE WERE VERY QUICK TO SAY THEY BELIEVED THE SUSPECT WAS WORKING ALONE. THEY’RE LOOKING FOR ANY SORT OF SIGNS OR POSSESSIONS OF THE SUSPECT OR WRITINGS THAT COULD POINT TO A POSSIBLE MOTIVE HERE. THEY ARE ASKING THE PUBLIC TO COME FORWARD. LOUISVILLE IS THE BIGGEST CITY IN KENTUCKY BUT NOT A MASSIVE CITYAT JUST 630,000 PEOPLE. SO SITTING ANY HELP FROM THE PUBLIC AND INDIVIDUALS WHO MIGHT HAVE KNOWN THE SUSPECT OR SOME OF THE VICTIMS, BOTH THE

MAYOR AND THE GOVERNOR SAY THAT THEY KNEW ONE OF THE VICTIMS, TOMMY ELLIOTT. I IMAGINE IN THE COMING DAYS THERE WILL BE MORE TO SHARE AND LEARN REGARDING A POTENTIAL MOTIVE. UNCERTAIN SHOOTINGS, WE NEVER REALLY FIND OUT THE FULL ANSWER. THEY’RE LOOKING FOR ANY SORT OF MOTIVE OR TIMELINE OR ANSWERS THAT COULD BRING COMFORT TO FAMILIES WHO HAVE LOST A LOVED ONE AT THIS TIME AND THIS IS WHERE CITY OFFICIALS SA