There is an update about the Louisville shooter Connor Sturgeon and according to the New York Post, he was a star athlete in high school who suffered multiple concussions.
And here are the details;
The man suspected of killing five and injuring eight at the Old National Bank in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, was a star athlete in high school who allegedly suffered so many concussions, he wore a helmet at basketball games.
Police identified the gunman as Connor Sturgeon, 25, an employee at the bank who livestreamed his rampage on Instagram before police shot him dead on Monday.
When he was a freshman at the Floyd Central High School in Floyds Knobs, Indiana, Sturgeon was an all-around athlete, playing basketball, football and running track.
As his father was the head coach of the team, a former classmate told the Daily Beast that Sturgeon was known as “Mr. Floyd Central.”
However, the classmate, who asked to remain anonymous, 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 from Sturgeon’s junior year with the Floyd Central High School basketball team showed him wearing a helmet at a game where he scored nearly half the team’s points.
The classmate said he couldn’t help but think about Sturgeon’s high school injuries and link them to other incidents where athletes who have suffered concussions have gone on to harm themselves or others.
In recent years, doctors have made numerous links between football players and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease caused by repeated blows to the head.
During his senior year, Sturgeon won the 2016 News and Tribune Sports Performance Yearly Award for Boys Track Athlete of the Year.
After graduating high school, Sturgeon went on to the University of Alabama to study finance, earning his master of science in finance in 2020.
While attending the university, Sturgeon worked as a summer 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, according to his LinkedIn account.
Sturgeon had learned he was about to be fired from the bank, according to CNN, which said he also left a note for his parents and a friend explaining his intention to shoot up the bank.
Among the victims were Tommy Elliott, 63, and Joshua Barrick, 40, both senior vice presidents; Jim Tutt, 64, a market executive; Juliana Farmer, 45, a commercial loan specialist; and Deanna Eckert, 57, an executive administrative officer.
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