They come to light desperate calls carried out by some of the victims who were trapped in the shooting inside a bank in Louisville, in Kentucky, where a young man killed five people on Monday. Chilling audios showing the moments of terror and panic that lived those who were there.

Fear like the one experienced by a woman who called 911 from a closet. In the audio of the call, which can be heard in the video on these lines, the operator can be heard asking if someone has been shot and she confirms it. “I’m hiding in a closet”he says with a shaky voice. At that time the killing had only just begun and the shots are heard in the telephone recordings.

The attacker, however, raged in the bank’s meeting room, where several people witnessed the horror by video call. “We heard multiple shots and everyone was like ‘oh my god’ and he walked into the room. I saw it all in Teams“, explained a woman, between sobs, in another of those terrified calls.

While the agents faced Connor Sturgeon, the attackerthe switchboard received the call of his own mother, who also notified the Emergencies, prey to anguish after being notified by her son’s roommates. “I am her mother. I’m sorry. Information is coming to me. He has never hurt anyone, he is a very good boy“, said the woman, who could not conceive that her son was perpetrating a massacre with an assault rifle: “He has never had weapons“, he added.

Shortly after, the assailant was killed by the Police, after shooting five people dead.