{"id":111651,"date":"2023-04-12T02:53:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T02:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=111651"},"modified":"2023-04-12T02:53:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T02:53:28","slug":"louisville-mass-shooter-used-ar-style-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=111651","title":{"rendered":"Louisville Mass Shooter Used AR Style Rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/04\/11\/us\/louisville-shooting-gunman.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: &#8220;The 25-year-old man who opened fire on Monday at a bank in downtown Louisville, killing five people, told at least one person that he was suicidal before the rampage and legally purchased the AR-15-style rifle used in the shooting at a local dealership last week, officials said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe know he left a note,\u201d Representative Morgan McGarvey, a Democrat whose district includes Louisville, said of the gunman at a news conference. \u201cWe know he texted or called at least one person to let them know he was suicidal and contemplating harm.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later on Tuesday, the city released&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xQUK7UyF8uE\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">body camera footage<\/a>&nbsp;of the police confrontation. It showed two officers \u2014 a rookie and his training officer \u2014 pulling up in their squad car outside Old National Bank on East Main Street at 8:41 a.m. on Monday, three minutes after receiving reports of shots fired. The gunman, having already shot his victims on the building\u2019s first floor, was waiting inside its glass-strewn lobby to ambush the police, who could not see through the building\u2019s dark windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The footage, with some graphic portions blurred out, shows a quick initial gun battle, and Officer Nickolas Wilt, who graduated from the police academy weeks earlier, being shot.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: &#8220;The 25-year-old man who opened fire on Monday at a bank in downtown Louisville, killing five people, told at least one person that he was suicidal before the rampage and legally purchased the AR-15-style rifle used in the shooting at a local dealership last week, officials said on Tuesday. \u201cWe know he left&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111652,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111651\/revisions\/111652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}