ATF closes investigation into Old National Bank shootings. Here's what the agency found
The ATF recently destroyed the gun used in the mass shooting. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATAF) has closed its investigation into the shooting at Old National Bank in Louisville, which left five employees and the shooter dead in April 2023. The shooting took place the day after Easter at the bank's downtown Louisville office on April 10. The ATF announced its closure through a statement from Special Agent in Charge Shawn Morrow, who runs the ATF's Louisville division. The LMPD cleared LMPD Officer Cory Galloway, who killed the shooter, noting his actions were justifiable under the Kentucky Revised Statutes. No federal charges were filed in the investigation, and the ATF seized the rifle used in the shooting.
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The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced the agency has closed its investigation into the shooting at Old National Bank, which left five people and the shooter dead in April 2023 and eight others injured.
The shooting took place the day after Easter, on April 10, at the bank's downtown Louisville office. Five employees were killed — Josh Barrick, 40; Juliana Farmer, 45; Deana Eckert, 57; Tommy Elliott, 63; and Jim Tutt Jr., 64.
The agency announced the closure of the investigation through a statement from ATF Special Agent in Charge Shawn Morrow, who runs the ATF's Louisville division. (The division covers all of Kentucky and West Virginia.)
"Our findings are consistent with LMPD's," Morrow said. "There is no ongoing investigative activity into the shooting. ... The individual responsible for the crime is deceased, and no federal charges were filed in the investigation."
The ATF did not provide any other details on the findings of its investigation.
Both the ATF and Louisville Metro Police Department responded on April 10 and conducted separate investigations into the shooting.
LMPD completed its investigation and released a 64-page report of findings in late November. It cleared LMPD Officer Cory Galloway, who killed the shooter, noting his actions "were not criminal in nature and were justifiable as set forth within the Kentucky Revised Statutes."
Galloway was one of two LMPD officers to respond within minutes of the start of the shooting. Officer Nickolas Wilt, the other responding officer, was shot in the head but survived. He appeared publicly during Louisville's St. Patrick's Day Parade, waving to the crowd from an unmarked SUV.
The ATF seized the rifle used at Old National Bank as part of its investigation.
The bureau destroyed that gun Monday, 350 days after the shooting, at the ATF’s National Firearms and Ammunition Destruction Branch in Martinsburg, West Virginia, where all firearms and ammunition collected by the ATF’s Louisville office are sent to be destroyed. Firearms are routinely forfeited to the ATF during an investigation by the bureau.
A lawsuit was filed in Jefferson County in January against River City Firearms, a federally licensed firearms dealer in Louisville that sold the AR-15-style rifle used in the shooting. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of six victims and survivors of the Old National Bank mass shooting, alleging the firearms dealer overlooked several "red flags (that) were present in spades" when selling the gun.
That suit had a status hearing last week in Judge Melissa Logan Bellow's courtroom.
Stephanie Kuzydym is an enterprise and investigative reporter. She can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her at @stephkuzy
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