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Louisville Bank Shooter Explains Motive in 13-Page Manifesto: Report

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He reportedly wrote about how easy it was to buy a gun in Kentucky and the nation’s mental health crisis.

Memorial on the steps of Old National Bank in Louisville
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Louisville bank shooter Connor Sturgeon reportedly detailed his motive in a 13-page manifesto in which he wrote about a death wish, the mental health crisis in America, and his hope to show how easy it is to buy a gun in Kentucky. The Daily Mail did not say where the letter was found. Sturgeon, 25, gunned down five officials at the bank where he worked and was killed in a shootout with police that left an officer, Nickolas Wilt, in critical condition. An obituary for Sturgeon published Thursday asked for donations for the wounded cop.

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