The mother of the Louisville bank gunman made an anxious call to 911, indicating that she had heard her son was planning to bring a pistol to the bank.
After learning of her son’s plans through her son’s roommate, Connor Sturgeon’s mother Lisa made an emergency contact to police, and she sounded terrified throughout the call.
“My son could be [redacted], because he has a gun and he’s heading to the Old National [Bank],” she claimed. This is his mother; I apologize for hearing this information secondhand. Holy crap.
There’s nothing I can do. Please assist me. Nothing bad ever came from him. She went on to say, “He’s a really lovely child.
The distraught mother replies that she has no idea what the dispatcher is doing when he asks whether she understands.
“I have no idea, I have no idea about anything. I have no idea where he acquired a gun from because he doesn’t even have one. His roommate was worried and phoned me. I’m just winging it here.
The mother told the dispatcher that she was on her way to the bank to visit Sturgeon, whose she had just verified as working there.
“I don’t want you to go to the location, OK,” the policeman said. I would prefer that you not visit the area at this time, ma’am.
I do not require you to go to the site at this time OK, it’s hazardous there; we have a crisis going on down there right now, and we’ve already had calls from other individuals.
The 911 call came in at 8:41 a.m., exactly when police officers arrived and were met by Sturgeon, who was ready for them with an AR-15 weapon he had just purchased.
Before he was slain by police a few minutes later, he had killed five and wounded nine. Sturgeon had worked at the bank previously, but his motivation for the murders is unclear.
Additional 911 tapes reveal that the first call came from a female witness at another bank location who saw the shooting unfold on a video conference before the main bank opened.
“I saw it a moment ago. The stunned woman remarked, “I just watched it on a Teams meeting.” There was a meeting of the board going on.
Someone was lying on the ground, I noticed. Multiple bullets rang out, and people began exclaiming, “Oh, my God,” before he entered the meeting room.
A second witness phoned 911 and hid in a closet as Sturgeon murdered her coworkers, she said quietly.
She added quietly, “I know who it is,” as gunfire rang out in the distance. To put it another way: “He’s on staff here. Help!”
The 911 operator urges silence.
Another male worker also dialed 911 and begged the dispatcher to “Get here now!”
Another 911 call came from a neighboring business owner who said they saw a man with a “shotgun” dash around the corner and enter the bank.
A caller said that the man was “jogging around like he was trying to get somewhere in a hurry.”
The Louisville Metropolitan Police Department has released recordings of their radio exchanges throughout the tumultuous situation, in addition to the 911 calls that were made.