LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Southern Indiana woman is one survivor of the Old National Bank shooting. She’s recovering now after undergoing two surgeries and weeks of physical therapy.

What You Need To Know

  • A Southern Indiana woman is one survivor of the Old National Bank shooting

  • She shares her story being one of the first victims shot on April 10

  • Dallas Schwartz had only been working at Old National Bank for about six weeks and was still meeting her new colleagues

  • She hid in the bathroom where she used a scarf she had on to tie a tourniquet

Dallas Schwartz said she is one of the first victims from that Monday morning, the day after Easter when downtown Louisville saw a dark day.

Schwartz had only been working at Old National Bank for about six weeks and was still meeting her new colleagues.

“I felt that from day one, from the interview to when I got hired on and went into the office for the first day. I felt that family-type environment, and it’s even more so now,” Schwartz said.

Her bank family that became a target. 

“So my thought first was, you know, I was gonna get to meet her. But when I approached that office, he was coming out, and I was really confused. You know, I saw the safety glasses that he had on and the gun and I was really confused by it. Still confused by it,” Schwartz said, describing how the gunman made his way through the bank.

The treasury management analyst thought it might have been a drill of some sort.

“He asked me to come with him. You know, I asked him ‘What’s going on? I’m confused.’ I put my bag down on the desk. He asked again, and that’s when I said I don’t understand what’s happening? And I got shot,” Schwartz said.

The bullet hit her inner left thigh and grazed the back of her right thigh.

“We were pretty close in range. So you know, of course, I went to the ground. And I’m like, man, you know, I just remember that was stinging really bad burning.”

“And I guess it wasn’t until I heard the other shots down the hall that I realized this is real, you know? I gotta, I gotta get up,” Schwartz said. “So I got up and, you know, ran the other way to find the first hiding spot that I could find.”

She hid in the bathroom where she used a scarf she had on to tie a tourniquet.

“And I use that once I got into the bathroom and I saw the amount of blood that was on the floor. So I took that scarf and I tied it around my leg here,” Schwartz said. “And then that’s when I called 911.”

But her call couldn’t go through. When police arrived, they told her the scarf on her neck saved her life.

“You know, just over the last month, you know, I was in hospitals in the rehab for, you know, almost a month missing. You know, my kids’ life every day. You know, and even though it’s just a month, it’s a lot of time in your kid’s life,” Schwartz said.

Each step she takes now has more purpose, even though there’s the pain she’s enduring. She also attends her physical, mental, and emotional therapy appointments, but she’s grateful for love, family, and healing.

“But I can tell you that the support that I’ve gotten over all of this is overwhelming. And I’m so grateful to everyone. Like I said from UofL to the cops, it saved me. To the ambulance person that was in there in the back with me on the way there…. You know everyone here to Old National Bank. I couldn’t I couldn’t work for a better company.”

Schwartz said she’s continuing on her healing journey with physical therapy and a nurse sees her three times a week to check on her wounds.

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