A Kentucky gun store that sold an AR-15 to a man who used it to kill five of his co-workers and wrote in a diary that the gun was “very easy” to buy was released on Monday by survivors and victims. He is facing a lawsuit filed by his family.
A civil lawsuit filed in Louisville alleges that River City Firearms purchased the gun from Connor Sturgeon six days before the April 10 shooting, making River City Firearms more suspicious of the sale. He says he should have noticed the warning signs. Sturgeon broke into the Old National Bank and opened fire on his colleagues who were having a morning assembly, killing five people and wounding several others. A responding police officer was also shot and killed.
An extensive report into the shooting released by Louisville police in November said Sturgeon, 25, suffered from mental illness and wrote in her diary that she was “very sick.”
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River City Firearms is a federally licensed distributor, which means its distributors are “trained to identify individuals who may have malicious intent,” according to the complaint. Thing. Patrons at the store said Sturgeon had little knowledge of firearms and appeared confused during the purchase, according to the complaint. According to the complaint, stores have a “legal obligation” to withhold sales from buyers who they reasonably believe may pose a danger to others.
Louisville mass shooting suspect Connor Sturgeon appears in a selfie released by the city's Metropolitan Police Department. (Getty Images | Louisville Metro Police Department)
According to the complaint, first reported by the Courier-Journal, the store owners believe that AR-15-style weapons like the one Sturgeon purchased “have become the go-to weapon for young people looking to cause mass destruction. They say people should know that there are .
Sturgeon purchased Radical Firearms RF-15, 120 rounds and four magazine cartridges for $762. He wrote in his diary that this process took about 45 minutes.
“Seriously, I knew it was possible, but this is ridiculous,” he wrote.
River City Firearms did not immediately respond to an email sent to the store Monday. I called the store Monday evening, but there was no answer.
A Louisville police report said Sturgeon fired more than 40 shots in about eight minutes. Investigators said it appears the man did not fully understand how to operate the weapon. Sturgeon was shot and killed by Louisville police officers just minutes after the shooting began.
The families of two of the deceased victims, Joshua Barrick and James Tutt, and three survivors of the shooting are plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
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The lawsuit is being filed by attorneys from the Chicago law firm Romanucci & Blandin, Louisville attorney Tad Thomas and Everytown Law, a Washington-based law firm that seeks to advance gun safety laws in court. woken up by a lawyer.
