A 25-year-old bank employee in Louisville, Kentucky, knew he was going to be fired so he decided to ruin the lives of multiple people and their families by committing a mass shooting.
Connor Sturgeon, 25, identified himself as “Syndications Associate and Portfolio Banker” at Old National Bank. Monday’s shooting at the bank’s branch left five people dead, including Sturgeon. Nine patients were treated at University of Louisville Hospital, including two police officers, according to U of L Health. One of the officers is in critical condition.
More deatils have since come out on the deceased murderer and it shows he was a star athlete in high school who allegedly suffered so many concussions, he wore a helmet at basketball games.
Sturgeon was said to be an an all-around athlete, playing basketball, football and running track while he was a freshman at the Floyd Central High School in Floyds Knobs, Indiana. During his senior year, Sturgeon won the 2016 News and Tribune Sports Performance Yearly Award for Boys Track Athlete of the Year.
However, an anonymous classmate noted that Sturgeon oddly wore a helmet while playing basketball due to multiple concussions he suffered while playing football.
“We played football together in eighth grade. He was out most of the year because he had multiple concussions,” he said. “Then he had a couple more in high school.”
A photo even showed him wearing that helmet from his junior year. It happened in a game where he scored nearly half the team’s points. The classmate couldn’t help but to think if his head injuries had him suffering to the point that led him to the mass shooting.
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Over the past couple of years, doctors have made numerous links between football players and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which is a degenerative brain disease caused by repeated blows to the head. The people diagnosed with CTE will never actually know it, because it can only be found after their death.
People with CTE have impaired thinking and memory and are prone to aggression, mood swings, depression and paranoia, according to the Concussion Legacy Foundation.
Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is the most notable person who had CTE after he was convicted of murder in 2015, was found to have had chronic CTE after his 2017 prison suicide.
After graduating high school, Sturgeon went on to the University of Alabama to study finance, earning his master of science in finance in 2020. He would soon intern for the Old National Bank for three consecutive years, eventually joining as a commercial development professional in 2021 and a full-time associate and portfolio banker last year.
Police are still working to determine a motive for the deadly shooting and if he specifically targeted the people he killed. The five victims, all between the ages of 40 and 64, were identified as Joshua Barrick, Juliana Farmer, Tommy Elliott, Deana Eckert and James Tutt, police said.
