Search warrants show Louisville mass shooter planned attack, according to notes, messages found on phone

Connor Sturgeon, who opened fire in a downtown bank branch killing five people April 10, planned the mass shooting, according to messages and notes found on an iPhone used to livestream the attack from his Instagram page.

Some information from the phone, which was found “affixed to his shirt” after Sturgeon was shot and killed by Officer Cory Galloway, was revealed in recently unsealed search warrants involving the shooting.

The four warrants, signed by Jefferson District Court Amber Wolf on April 13, had been ordered sealed for 30 days.

The warrants to Apple, Google, Snapchat and AT&T involved gaining access to his phone, social media accounts, computers and other devices, but do not mention items taken from his home.

Read more: WDRB (Louisville, KY)