In the midst of this week’s horrific shooting in Louisville, a bank employee who was injured in the incident has come forward to tell her traumatic story. Dana Mitchell, who was shot by her mentee, Connor Sturgeon, had to pretend to be dead in order to survive. In total, five individuals were killed and nine more were injured.
Sturgeon was supervised by Mitchell, who works at the bank. “I was extremely familiar with Connor. During his first year at the bank, I was his mentor. “He never gave me the impression that he would have done this,” she explained.
“Not in a million years. He was very kind and soft-spoken. You would never have thought this would have happened.”
“When I saw him in the hallway with the gun I thought: ‘Why would he bring that here to show us?’ It didn’t even register to me he was ready to shoot,” Mitchell said.
“Everybody there but one person was in a conference room for a meeting. I saw him standing in the hallway with a gun and I saw him shoot the person in the hallway. Everyone started running. But we had nowhere to run.”
Mitchell described being shot by Connor: “The bullet went in and out just below the surface. It was high enough up that it ripped the skin open. It was a wound about 10 inches long. But didn’t hit anything important. I felt him shooting me immediately.
“I just laid down there. I tried not to breathe a lot. I didn’t want to move around. I didn’t want him to see me moving or hear me breathing, because I thought he might shoot me again.”
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“He was not terminated, he was still an employee,” Mitchell confirmed that Connor was still in fact working at the bank. “I don’t know where the rumor came from. I never imagined this would happen at my place of work or to me.”
“You see it on TV and it happens to other people but it doesn’t happen to people you know. But this is one of those things,” Mitchell finished.