The desperate rush by a rookie policeman and his training officer to bring a mass shooting at a Kentucky bank to a halt was captured in spare but dramatic…
The footage, shown by the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department during an afternoon briefing and which the police posted on Twitter later, comes a day after a Louisville bank employee killed five people and wounded nine others – including the two officers – while he livestreamed video of the attack on Instagram.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
“Pull up, pull up, pull up,” Galloway barks. Gunfire sounds. “Back up! Back up! Back up!” he shouts again. Arriving just three minutes after they have been dispatched, Wilt readies his handgun as Galloway grabs a rifle out of the trunk, and the camera image lurches up the steps to the bank building. A burst of gunfire is heard as the suspect shoots at the officers from inside the lobby.
Both officers appear to fall, but Galloway scrambles to his feet and runs down the steps to hide behind a planter. He waits a few seconds, hears more gunfire, then peeks out and seems to react to seeing Wilt down. “God damn it!” he shouts.“The shooter has an angle on that officer,” Galloway says. “We need to get up there.”After more gunfire, Galloway – who is himself injured – hits the gunman, 25-year-old Connor Sturgeon, from his position out on the steps.
“What you saw on that video was absolutely amazing,” Humphrey said after displaying the body camera video from both officers as well as a bystander. “There’s only a few people in this country that can do what they did.”
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