A Louisville bank employee armed with a rifle opened fire at his workplace on Monday morning, killing five people – including a close friend of Kentucky’s governor – while livestreaming the attack on Instagram, authorities said.
Police arrived as shots were still being fired inside Old National Bank and killed the shooter in an exchange of gunfire, the Louisville metro police department (LMPD) chief, Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel, said. The city’s mayor, Craig Greenberg, called the attack “an evil act of targeted violence”.
