Shooting at Louisville Bank results in 5 fatalities.

A shooting attack on Monday at a bank in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, resulted in five fatalities and eight additional injuries, according to the city’s’s police department.

Police declared the shooter dying without providing any additional information long after confirming the attack. The gunman, who police identified as either a current or former bank contractor, was not known to be among the five fatalities.

Paul Humphrey, a deputy chief of the Louisville Metro Police Department, told reporters that police were now attempting to determine whether the gunman shot himself or was shot by police.

At a branch of the Old National Bank, close to the Slugger Field baseball stadium in the city’s’s downtown, police said they responded to reports of an attacker within minutes at around 8:30 am( 1230 GMT ).

Eight people were hurt, including at least two police officers, one of whom was in critical condition at a clinic.

At a lecture, Craig Greenberg, the president of the 625 000-person city, told reporters that he and his community would work together to stop the continuation of these atrocious acts of gun violence.

On the verge of tears, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear claimed to have known the attack’s’s sufferers.

At the lecture, he said,” I have a really close friend who didn’t make it today, and I hope she makes it through who is at the hospital.”

In the US, bulk killings are increasingly common. According to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit organization, the country has seen 146 mass shootings so far this year, using the concept of four or more shot or killed, not including the gunman.

Three 9-year-old students and three people members were killed by a former school on March 27 in one of the most recent high-profile occurrences. The incident took place at the school in Nashville, Tennessee.

( Reporting from Chicago by Brendan O’Brien; additional reporting from Julia Harte, Timothy Ahmann, and Ismail Shakil; editing by Doina Chiacu and Jonathan Oatis. )