Shooter in Louisville purchased AR-15 rifle legally: Police chief
Al JazeeraMonday’s mass shooting in the US state of Kentucky was a ‘targeted’ attack against coworkers, says law enforcement. Law enforcement officials in the United States have revealed that a shooter who killed five people in Louisville, Kentucky, targeted coworkers with a firearm he purchased legally in the week prior to the attack. In a press conference on Tuesday, Louisville Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said that the shooter, identified as 23-year-old Connor Sturgeon, purchased an AR-15 rifle at a local dealership on April 4. But we need policies in place that will keep this from happening again,” US Representative Morgan McGarvey said at Tuesday’s press conference. He pointed to the fact that the shooter expressed suicidal thoughts in the lead-up to the attack: “We don’t have the tools on the books to deal with someone who is an imminent danger to themselves or to others.” At the press conference, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg noted that 40 people in the city had been shot to death since the beginning of the year.
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