The Daily Beast/Louisville Metro PD
The gunman who unleashed a terrifying barrage of semi-automatic rifle fire at a Louisville bank office on Monday had “challenges” with his mental health but seemed perfectly normal the day before the senseless massacre that killed five of his colleagues and injured nine others, according to a family spokesman.
Connor Sturgeon, 23, battled depression and anxiety but a mass shooting by the syndications associate and portfolio banker “was nowhere on the grid,” Pete Palmer, a lawyer and close friend of Sturgeon’s father, Todd, told The Daily Beast on Wednesday.
Before heading to work at Old National Bank with an AR-15 he had purchased legally a week earlier, Sturgeon texted his parents a message saying that he loved them, Palmer said. Around the same time, Sturgeon’s roommate, sales rep Dallas Whelan, called Sturgeon’s mother to say her son had left a disturbing note behind. Sturgeon’s mom then called 911, desperate to stop what she apparently realized was about to happen. (Whelan did not respond to interview requests by The Daily Beast.)