The AR-15 assault rifle used Monday at the Louisville bank shootingKentucky, will be auctioned off under state law despite the mayor’s protests.
The semi-automatic weapon, with which five people died, including the shooter, and injured four others, had been legally purchased by the killer, a bank employee, on April 4.
According to the law of Kentucky, all weapons seized by local police, including those used in homicides, must be auctioned for buy-back.
“You realize that the murder weapon will be back on the streets,” the mayor attacked during a press conference calling for a change in the law.
What happened in Louisville
A 23-year-old man shot dead four people on Monday in a bank in the most populous city in the US state of Kentucky, including two friends of the governor, authorities reported, who said the attacker, a former employee of the entity, was also shot dead. The attack occurs just two weeks after the attack at a Nashville primary.
Nine other people were injured and were admitted to a Louisville city medical center after the shooting in the building of Old National Bankreported the Hospital of the University of Louisville.
Two of the injured were police officers, and one of them was in critical condition, the hospital added.
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