Wednesday, April 12th, 2023

Morning Announcements

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🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Today's headlines: More details emerge about several shootings in the US recently, including one at Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky, where a disgruntled employee used a legally purchased AR-15 rifle to kill five people and injure eight others. Kentucky is one of 26 states that allows for permitless concealed carry of firearms. Another shooting took place outside a funeral home in Washington DC, leaving one person dead and three others critically injured. Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg filed a lawsuit against House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan and lawyer Mark Pomerantz to bar them from enforcing a subpoena of one of the former leaders in the DA’s investigation into Trump. In other news, leaked Pentagon and US military documents on the messaging app Discord reveal several insights into the US intelligence gathering process and its relationship with other countries. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: Spectrum News: College closes following campus shooting, hours after mass shooting in downtown Louisville CNN: Gunman livestreamed mass shooting at Louisville bank that left 5 dead and 8 injured ABC News: What we know about Kentucky's gun laws after Louisville shooting Washington Post: 1 Killed, 3 wounded in shooting outside D.C. funeral home NY Times: Bragg Sues Jim Jordan in Move to Block Interference in Trump Case AP News: Leaked US intel: Russia operatives claimed new ties with UAE Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage alongside Amanda Duberman and Bridget Schwartz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Wednesday, April 12th, and you're listening to the Morning Announcements presented
0:07.3	by Vetch's media.
0:08.3	I'm your host Sammy Sage, and the Morning Announcements is your daily five-minute breakdown of the
0:12.4	headlines that isn't afraid to take a side and roast the most consequential reality
0:16.6	show there is, our government.
0:22.1	Just a few hours after the mass shooting at Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky
0:25.7	on Monday, and shortly before yesterday's episode was recorded, a second shooting was
0:30.5	reported in downtown Louisville.
0:32.8	One man was killed and a woman was injured outside of Jefferson Community and Technical
0:36.4	College.
0:37.4	The campus was immediately cleared and is temporarily shut down.
0:41.1	Police said that the suspect pled the scene on foot, and that it appears to be unrelated
0:45.0	to the shooting from earlier in the day at Old National Bank.
0:48.9	Though regarding the bank shooting, a fifth individual passed away from their injuries,
0:52.8	the eight others still being treated for gunshot wounds.
0:56.1	The shooter has been identified as 25-year-old Connor Sturgeon, and he used an AR-15 rifle
1:01.2	that he bought legally a week ago.
1:03.7	He was a disgruntled employee of the bank who had worked at a summer intern before being
1:07.4	hired full-time, though he was recently notified that he was going to be fired.
1:12.2	Before the attack, Sturgeon told his parents and a friend that he was going to shoot up
1:15.6	the bank, and he ultimately live-streamed the shooting, which occurred during an 8.30
1:20.0	a.m. employee meeting held 30 minutes before the bank opens to the public.
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