Louisville Gunman Legally Bought AR-15 Days Ago

Reuters reports:

The 23-year-old bank employee who shot dead five colleagues and wounded nine other people at his workplace in Louisville on Monday legally purchased the rifle, Louisville Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel told reporters at a news conference on Tuesday.

The gun used to carry out the attack was bought at a local dealership on April 4, the chief said. The gunman was fatally shot at the scene, Louisville police said. It was unclear whether he was slain by police or took his own life.

The shooter was identified by police as Connor Sturgeon, who was employed at the downtown branch of the Old National Bank at the time of the shooting, Gwinn-Villaroel said. Officers fired at the gunman, who broadcast live video of his attack on social media, police said.

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BREAKING: The Louisville mass shooter purchased his AR-15 rifle legally, in Louisville, six days before the attack. Most mass shooters use legally obtained firearms, as our @MotherJones database shows https://t.co/tsKzJGEs7K 5/x

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“AR-15s do horrific damage: The velocity and impact of the .223-caliber rounds can blast apart organs and demolish bones… The bodies of some children killed in Uvalde were so obliterated that authorities had to resort to DNA testing to identify them” https://t.co/ek19zQxVQC 4/x

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The livestreaming of the Louisville mass shooting also marks an evolution—a part of rising emulation behavior among shooters (AKA ‘copycat’ behavior). I write at length about this troubling phenomenon in my book TRIGGER POINTS, excerpted here https://t.co/8DfLSqJESY 3/x

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