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Employee in Virtual Meeting Watched in Horror as Louisville Massacre Unfolded

ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE

A manager at Old National Bank said she “witnessed people being murdered,” before adding: “I don’t know how else to say that.”

Police deploy at the scene of a mass shooting outside an Old National Bank branch near Slugger Field baseball stadium in downtown Louisville, Kentucky
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An employee of the bank targeted by a mass shooter in Louisville, Kentucky, was on a virtual meeting with co-workers when the massacre began and watched in horror through her computer as several colleagues died. Rebecca Buchheit-Sims, a manager at Old National Bank, told CNN that she “witnessed people being murdered,” before adding: “I don’t know how else to say that.” She didn’t work directly with the shooter, identified by authorities as a 23-year-old employee of the bank named Connor Sturgeon, but said she was familiar with him because his father was also her son’s former basketball coach.

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