LOUISVILLE, KY - APRIL 10: Community members gather at Crescent Hill Presbyterian Church for a vigil following the mass shooting at the Old National Bank on April 10, 2023 in Louisville, Kentucky.
A gunman opened fire inside the bank, killing four pe LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Tributes were growing Monday for the five people slain in a shooting at a Louisville bank, with friends sharing details of their lives and mourners gathering at vigils.Details were also emerging about some of the wounded, including a rookie officer who was just recently sworn in.Louisville’s former Mayor Greg Fischer said he’d known 63-year-old Tommy Elliott, one of those killed, for 40 years.
He likes to tell a story about how they met: Elliott was a young banker and Fischer was a young businessman. They were both ambitious and "wet behind the ears," Fischer said.
Elliott called him up and said he wanted to be his personal banker.RELATED: "I just swore him in": Officer injured in Louisville bank shooting had just graduated from police academy"I reminded him that my net worth was less than $5,000 and thought he was crazy," Fischer said. "I said, ‘Your prospect list must be getting pretty bad, Tommy, to be calling me.’"Five people were killed and eight others, including two officers, were wounded in a shooting at Old National Bank in downtown Louisville.