It is now reported that Louisville bank shooter Connor Sturgeon left a disturbing manifesto outlining three key reasons for his killing spree that left five coworkers dead.
The 25-year-old wrote a 13-page screed describing his motives for gunning down his colleagues during their morning conference at the Old National Bank, “a massacre he captured on a deranged Instagram live stream,” the New York Post reported.
The murderer’s treatise reportedly lists three principal goals that served as motivation for the murder spree, addressed here in no particular order.
One was suicide. Sturgeon could easily have achieved this goal without killing anyone else, but he did reportedly list suicide as one of his three motives.
A second goal was to raise awareness regarding mental health issues in America. Sturgeon dealt with depression and anxiety and was taking medication.
A third goal communicated by Sturgeon was to demonstrate how easy it is to purchase a gun in Kentucky.
Observers have noted that Sturgeon was aware that he was about to be fired from the bank, but the veracity of that report is now disputed.
Others looking to comprehend the killer’s motives have turned to social media profiles, which have been disappearing from the internet. Sturgeon’s social media posts show him to a be a basketball enthusiast. They also show him to be a vocal critic of Donald Trump and the alt-right and a supporter of BLM. Sturgeon also expressed critical views about police violence.
In addition to the five colleagues he murdered, Sturgeon also shot responding Louisville Metro Police Officer Nickolas Wilt in the head. Wilt has undergone surgery for a brain injury.
Officer Cory Galloway shot and killed Sturgeon.
Sturgeon suffered from “numerous sports-related concussions,” and specialists are testing his brain for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) — brain deterioration caused by repeated head trauma. Such tests take six to eight weeks to yield results.
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