One of the eight people injured in a Kentucky bank shooting that left five people dead on Monday told CBS News that she mentored gunman Connor Sturgeon, the Alabama graduate killed by Louisville police.

“He never made me feel like he would have done this. Not in a million years. He was very kind and soft-spoken,” Dana Mitchell told CBS News.

Mitchell said she pretended to be dead after Sturgeon shot her with an AR-15, leaving her with a bullet wound “10 inches long” that “didn’t hit anything important.”

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“I tried not to breathe a lot. I didn’t want to move around. I didn’t want him to see me moving or hear me breathing, because I thought he might shoot me again,” Mitchell said.

Sturgeon had recently learned he was to be fired from the Louisville bank. His father says his brain will be examined to see if a CTE might have played a role in the massacre.

Peter Palmer, an Indiana-based lawyer who is friends with Sturgeon’s father, told NBC News the gunman was seeing a counselor for depression and anxiety.

Funerals have been arranged for the five killed, The Associated Press reported: senior vice presidents Tommy Elliott, 63, and Joshua Barrick, 40; executive administrative officer Deana Eckert, 57; loan analyst Juliana Farmer, 45; and commercial real estate market executive Jim Tutt Jr., 64.

Farmer, who had four grandchildren and another one on the way, just moved to Louisville from Henderson, Kentucky weeks before the shooting.

Sturgeon attended the University of Alabama from the fall of 2016 through December 2020, according to Shane Dorrill, UA’s assistant director of communications.

Sturgeon completed his undergraduate studies with a double major in finance and economics. He then received a Master’s of Science Degree, also from the University of Alabama.

According to Sturgeon’s LinkedIn profile, he was a syndications associate and portfolio banker with Old National Bank in Louisville following completion of the ONB Commercial Banking Development Training Program in April 2022.