Unfortunately, the He/Him mental impairment issues were evident on his social media pages. 4 or 5 dead at this hour.
In today's "this aged poorly" files, we have Ted Cruz with "Why don't more schools emulate banks, which have armed guards for protection?"
this shit's commonplace among hetero virtue signaling zoomers, woke work environments and HR recruiters, means fuck all
Let's look at the shooter's actual background -- basketball athlete, University of Alabama graduate and likely MAGA supporter (or maybe not) -- time will tell. Louisville Bank Massacre Suspect ID’d as Varsity Hoop Star-Turned-Banker https://www.thedailybeast.com/louis...uspect-idd-as-ex-varsity-star-connor-sturgeon The suspect in a Monday morning massacre at a Louisville bank has been identified as a 23-year-old former varsity hoops star and finance grad-turned-banker who livestreamed the horrific attack. Louisville Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel identified the suspect as Connor Sturgeon, who worked at Old National Bank’s downtown Louisville branch. Gwinn-Villaroel said Sturgeon was livestreaming as he used a rifle to open fire at about 8:38 a.m. in the Old National Bank Building, which houses the bank and a variety of other businesses, killing four people and injuring nine more, including three police officers. Sturgeon was killed after exchanging gunfire with officers, she said, but it’s unclear if he was killed by police or by self-inflicted gunshots. Four Old National Bank employees were killed: senior vice president Tommy Elliott, 63, market executive Jim Tutt, 64, senior vice president of commercial real estate Josh Barrick, 40, and commercial banking agent Juliana Farmer, 57. Officer Nicholas Wilt, a 26-year-old who only graduated from the academy on March 31, was in critical but stable condition after being shot in the head, Gwinn-Villaroel said. Gov. Andy Beshear said Elliott was one of his closest friends. “Tommy Elliott helped me build my law career, helped me become governor, gave me advice on being a good dad,” he said. “[He was] one of the people I talked to most in the world and very rarely were we talking about my job. He was an incredible friend.” A former friend and teammate of Sturgeon’s from Floyd Central High School in Floyds Knobs, Indiana, described Sturgeon to The Daily Beast as “Mr. Floyd Central.” Sturgeon was smart, popular, and a star athlete in high school track, football, and basketball, he said. “I know everyone always says this about shooters but I truly would have never expected it to be him,” the teammate, who asked to remain anonymous, said. He said Sturgeon always wore a helmet during basketball games because he had suffered so many concussions. “The big thing I keep going back to is that in the first year of high school, we played football together in eighth grade, he was out most of the year because he had multiple concussions. Then he had a couple more in high school,” he said. “I’m not saying it’s the cause but I always think back to that… There were times I’d wonder, will this catch up with him? But never in this way. He’s the last person I'd expect would do this.” After graduating in 2016, Sturgeon went to the University of Alabama to “chase that SEC frat life,” the former friend said. He graduated there in 2020, the university confirmed. In an essay on “personal ethics” for the University of Alabama, uploaded to CourseHero in 2018 under Sturgeon’s name, Sturgeon wrote about his quest to improve his “discipline, responsibility, and self-esteem... so that I can improve myself as a whole.” “My self-esteem has long been a problem for me,” he wrote. “As a late bloomer in middle and high school, I struggled to a certain extent to fit in, and this has given me a somewhat negative self-image that persists today. Making friends has never been especially easy, so I have more experience than most in operating alone. Furthermore, college has introduced a whole new atmosphere and new challenges, so it is easy to feel like I am not doing as well as I should be. This semester, however, I think I have begun to mature socially and am beginning to see improvement in this area. I have found that taking time out to take stock of how I feel and what I can do to feel better has helped me be more social and in turn feel better about myself.” In another section, he wrote that he’d previously been able to get good grades without studying much but, “Obviously as my classes get harder, it becomes much harder to take shortcuts... I continue to battle against myself, but I believe I have improved and can continue to do so.” Two now-defunct Twitter accounts that appear to belong to Sturgeon included tagged photos of him on the athletics track and the basketball court as a 6’5’’ junior on Floyd Central’s basketball team. More recently, he hosted a basketball-focused podcast with two buddies and tweeted about the NBA in between posts in support of the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, as well as some criticism of police violence and of then-President Donald Trump. Citing sources, local network WAVE3 reported that Sturgeon was fired from Old National Bank last week. Sturgeon’s LinkedIn indicates he had worked at Old National Bank as a syndications associate and portfolio banker after completing three summer internships between 2018 and 2020. “I am certified in the RMA Lending Decision Process, hold a Master’s in Finance from the University of Alabama, and am on the Young Professionals board for Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana,” he wrote on his profile. Sturgeon was once described online as a “finance major and a NBA hoop-head” by his father, Todd Sturgeon, who was Floyd Central’s head basketball coach until last year and previously coached the University of Indianapolis’ men’s basketball team for 10 seasons. Coach Sturgeon left the university in 2007 after watching Connor at a basketball camp and realizing “maybe he’d rather have more time to spend with his own sons than other people’s,” according to a 2007 story. Sturgeon’s brother is a professional model.
Ted Cruz is a moron. When you walk into your local bank branch, you don't see armed guards. If there were armed guards at the bank, then why didn't THEY take out the shooter? Duh! He is confusing that with the armed guards from Loomis or Wells Fargo who come in the armored trucks to add or take away the cash from the vault and the ATM and shit. They are there for like 20 minutes. Pfffhhtt
https://heavy.com/news/connor-sturgeon/ not overtly political...some shitposting. Will be interested if chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) was there though I'm not sure if he got his brains blown out. A classmate told The Daily Beast that Sturgeon was popular and a star athlte and always wore a helmet while playing basketball because of concussions he suffered. “The big thing I keep going back to is that in the first year of high school, we played football together in eighth grade, he was out most of the year because he had multiple concussions. Then he had a couple more in high school. I’m not saying it’s the cause but I always think back to that… There were times I’d wonder, will this catch up with him? But never in this way. He’s the last person I’d expect would do this,” the classmate told The Daily Beast. An old Instagram profile for Sturgeon does not appear to have been updated in several years. He wrote in the biography section of the social media page, “God and basketball.” A more recent Instagram profile with the username @csturg41 was taken down after the shooting. A Facebook page for Connor Sturgeon could not be located by Heavy and it was not immediately clear if he had any other active social media pages. Sturgeon’s father retweeted a video of San Antonio Spurs coach Greg Popovich talking about gun control just hours before the shooting in Louisville. Todd Sturgeon retweeted a video clip from reporter Tom Orsborn with the caption, “Pop used final 10 minutes of his pre-game presser to slam ‘cowardly, oblivious legislators’ for their inaction on gun control in wake of the mass shootings that have plagued America. Their inaction, he said, has contributed to making the U.S. the ‘laughingstock’ of the world.” Sturgeon also posted political memes, mainly mocking conservatives, former President Donald Trump and Fox News, on several subreddits, including “DankMemes,” “F***thealtright,” and “trollychromosome,” along with “Leopardsatemyface.” He posted a meme in July 2020 on the “f***thealtright” subreddit of a cartoon of a musclar figure responding to someone asking how he got his muscles by saying, “Every time Trump tweets some racist s*** …. I do one push up.” In 2018, the account replied to a thread in “r/ShowerThoughts” about being severly depressed, writing, “Hey man I understand how rough it is, and how pointless life can seem. Just keep fighting. Keep grinding. In sports and in life, I found that doing everything you can to help out those around you made me feel my best. Cheer on your teammates, help out those closest to you, and keep am eye out for those you care about and everything will work itself out brother.”