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April 11 (UPI) -- Police on Tuesday released video footage from body cameras worn by officers responding to Monday's shooting that left five people dead and eight more injured at a bank in Louisville, Ky. The dramatic video shows the first moments when several police officers arrive at the bank Monday morning and during which one officer is shot in the head (though it is not seen on video). That officer remains in critical condition.
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The video also shows the uninjured responding officer outside the bank trying to determine a way inside while issuing commands about the downed officer nearby.
The 25-year-old suspected gunman, Connor Sturgeon, opened fire at an Old National Bank branch where he worked before being shot dead by police.
The Louisville Metro Police Department released the 9-minute video Tuesday afternoon, after confirming earlier in the day that the gun used in the attack was purchased legally.
Louisville Metro Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said the AR-15-like weapon used in the killings was purchased six days prior to the attack at a local gun dealership.
Surveillance footage from the bank showed Sturgeon attempting to shoot an employee in the back before realizing his firearm was unloaded and had the safety on. He subsequently readied his weapon and opened fire.
The victims have been identified as Juliana Farmer, 45; Joshua Barrick, 40; Tommy Elliott, 63; James Tutt, 64; and Deana Eckert, 57, who died from her wounds later in the day.
Louisville Metro Police officer Nikolas Wilt was shot in the head and remains in the hospital in critical condition.
All five of those killed worked at the bank.
Farmer was the bank's loan analyst. The 45-year-old had only recently moved to Louisville to take the job with the bank.
Barrick, 40, was the youngest of the five victims. The father of two had held the Senior VP of Commercial Real Estate Banking for less than a year, joining Old National Bank last August.
Eckert was shot and initially taken to the hospital, dying from her injuries later Monday night. The 57-year-old graduate of Western Kentucky University worked at the bank as an executive administrative officer.
Tutt had worked for the bank since early 2015. Overall, the 64-year-old had more than 30 decades in commercial banking and was held in high esteem by his colleagues.
Elliott was the most senior employee killed in the attack. The 63-year-old was the bank's senior vice president. Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg called Elliott a good friend, as did the state's governor, Andy Beshear.
Greenberg called for blood donations following the shooting, and urged stronger gun-safety legislation saying, "It's time to change this law and let us destroy illegal guns and destroy the guns that have ensued to kill our friend and kill our neighbors."
"I would simply ask you to do something because doing nothing which is what we've been doing is not working, We have to do something because this is just getting out of hand across our city and across this great nation," Greenburg added.
An AR-15 variant is the weapon that was used in the Covenant school shooting that left six people dead in Nashville, Tenn., last month.
