April 12, 2023 Latest on the Louisville bank shooting

Radio transmissions made in the wake of the shooting released by Louisville police Wednesday show how EMS responded and organized to get medical attention to those inside the building.

Emergency responders on the radio calls discussed and coordinated where the victims were located inside the building, their conditions, and who was responding.

Here’s what they said:

“The shooter has been eliminated…and they’re doing a search of the building at this time,” one responder radios. 

Another says that there is “possibly a female hiding in the bathroom” who is on the phone with emergency services. 

“We have one victim that’s been brought out to the corner of Preston and Main,” another responder radios. 

Several emergency responders radio back and forth about the status of a police officer who was wounded before learning that the officer was already being transported to a hospital.

“Where’s the officer?” someone asks. 

“That’s what I’m trying to figure out,” another person replies, adding later that “the officer is actually being transported in the police car right now.”

Other emergency staff give updates over the radio on victims they located inside. 

“We have a patient also in the building…the center of the building, first floor bathroom. Female shot in the leg,” someone radios before new reports of more victims found come over the radio. 

“Just to add to your count, we have another victim. It looks like a gunshot wound to the (redacted),” another emergency responder reports. 

During the radio calls, emergency staff is told that a command center is being set up at the Slugger baseball stadium and everyone is told to bring any witnesses to the stadium.

In one call over the radio, an emergency responder says they’re being diverted from the location to handle another shooting in the city. 

“We’re responding to another shooting…at the Goodwill,” the person radios.

Radio transmissions also describe officers arriving at the shooter’s house, encountering individuals there and ultimately securing the home. 

“Cleared the house from what I understand,” a person radios. 

A makeshift memorial is set up on the steps of the Old National Bank in Louisville on April 12.

Officials in Louisville, Kentucky, are preparing to host a vigil tonight to grieve the five people killed this week in a downtown bank shooting.

The city will hold a vigil at 5 p.m. ET Wednesday at the Muhammad Ali Center, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said.

The vigil will “acknowledge the wounds, physical and emotional, that gun violence leaves behind,” Greenberg told reporters Tuesday. “It will be an interfaith opportunity for our entire community to come together – to grieve, to heal, to begin to move forward.”

A woman who called 911 said she saw a man with some type of assault rifle and bulletproof vest “jogging around” near the time of the shooting in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday.

When the dispatcher asked if the person was shooting, she said, “No, ma’am he was kind of like jogging around like he was trying to get somewhere in a hurry.”

Though that’s how the woman described the shooter, the gunman was not wearing a bulletproof vest, according to surveillance video during the shooting.

The 911 call is among a set of calls that were released by the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) on Wednesday related to the mass shooting that left five people dead. Yesterday, LMPD released dramatic bodycam video of officers responding to the attack.

This post has been updated throughout.

Police deploy at the scene of a mass shooting in downtown Louisville on April 10.

A woman called 911 from inside Old National Bank in Louisville as she was hiding in a closet in the building during Monday’s shooting.

The woman, who worked at the bank, told the dispatcher she believed eight or nine people were shot.

When the dispatcher asked the woman how she knew the gunman, she responded, “he works with us.”

During the call with the woman, multiple shots can be heard as she sheltered in the closet. First responders can be heard making contact with the woman after the shooting ceased.

A worker of Old National Bank witnessed the shooting while participating in a video meeting on Monday morning and called 911 after seeing the gunman walk into the meeting room.

“There’s an active shooter there,” the caller said in a 911 call that was released on Wednesday. The woman said she works at a different branch of the bank.

The woman was in distress, yelling and crying as she described to the dispatcher what she saw.

“I see somebody on the floor and we heard multiple shots and everyone started saying ‘Oh my god’ and then he came into the board meeting,” she added.

Louisville Metro Interim Police Chif Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel speaks during a news conference in Louisville on April 11.

The Louisville Metropolitan Police Department (LMPD) clarified Wednesday that there “was no discussion about [the shooter] being terminated, and of course he wasn’t fired,” from his bank job prior to Monday’s fatal workplace shooting.

“He was an active employee there at Old National Bank, but there was no discussion about this individual being terminated,” LMPD Interim Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel told CNN.

The mother of the shooter who killed five people at Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday called 911 after hearing secondhand that her son had a gun and was heading toward the bank.

The mother made the call at 8:41 a.m. local time, three minutes after the first 911 call came in about the shooting.

The mom said she was receiving details secondhand from the shooter’s roommate, who called her. 

“I know he doesn’t own any guns,” she told the operator. 

She told the operator multiple times that her son is not violent.

“He’s never hurt anyone; he’s a really good kid. Please don’t punish him,” she said to the operator. 

“He’s nonviolent; he’s never done anything,” she said later in the call.

The mother asked the operator what she should do and if she should go to the bank. The operator told the mother that she has already received multiple calls to Old National Bank.

The mother thanked the phone operator and said goodbye.

Police said in a news briefing Tuesday that the shooter used an AR-15-style rifle – the choice weapon of many US mass shooters – that he’d legally bought six days before the attack.

The 911 calls from the Old National Bank mass shooting have been released by the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD). 

LMPD has released six clips of calls to 911 from the shooting and one clip of LMPD radio traffic. The clips range from 50 seconds to roughly 32 minutes long. 

CNN is looking through the calls and will provide the latest updates.

Police deploy at the scene of a mass shooting outside an Old National Bank branch in downtown Louisville, Kentucky on April 10.

Louisville Metro Police Department Lt. Col. Aaron Crowell provided a few more specifics about the timeline of the fatal shooting at a bank Monday that left five dead.

During a briefing on Tuesday, Crowell said that the shooter was “neutralized” approximately three minutes after police responded.

Crowell reiterated that the gun purchased by the shooter in the fatal bank shooting was an AR-15-style rifle. 

Louisville Metro Interim Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said it was a “targeted” incident, as the shooter — who was an employee of the bank — knew the victims.

Police said they don’t know whether armed guards were present in the building.

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg added that the shooting took place on the first floor of the bank building, and there were other people in the building at the time who were later cleared from the scene by police.

How it unfolded: The shooting began around 8:30 a.m. ET, police said, about 30 minutes before the bank opens to the public. Bank staff were holding their morning meeting in a conference room when the shooter opened fire, bank manager Rebecca Buchheit-Sims said.

One bank employee frantically called her husband as she sheltered inside a locked vault, the husband, Caleb Goodlett told CNN affiiliate WLKY. By the time he called 911, police were already aware of the shooting, he said.

The gunman was killed in a shootout with officers, police said.

CNN’s Michelle Krupa contributed to this report.

Officials are expected to release audio of 911 calls Wednesday about the shooting, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday evening. It was among more than 145 shootings reported in the US this year with at least four victims, excluding a gunman.

Police have already released dramatic police body camera footage of Monday’s shooting at Old National Bank, in which authorities say the bank employee opened fire on his colleagues and then engaged in a shootout with police before he was shot dead.

The attacker, livestreaming the gruesome assault, fatally shot five of his coworkers in Kentucky’s most populous city around 8:30 a.m., about 30 minutes before the bank was to open, authorities said. Several others were hospitalized, including a rookie police officer who was shot in the head and was in critical condition Tuesday.

“Our city is heartbroken,” Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday evening. “These five victims should not be dead – just like everyone else who was killed by gun violence in our city, in our country, should not be dead.”