we call it luis-village. everybody knows everybody. we are not seven degrees of separation from people louisville we are one degree of separation from people louisville when we ask what school you went to, we mean high school. i went to manuel high school my mom went to wagner high school louisville is my home. we are hurting this is an unimaginable tragedy for our xhupty as the mayor mentioned, dajim tt is no longer with us josh barrick is no longer with us the woman who was the maid of honor in our wedding, for whom we are the god parents of two of

their children called me yesterday and said, i'm with jessica.k she hasn't heard from her husband. can you find out if he is alive? i called the police department they were quick in their response i had to call back and say, i cannot confirm anything, but he is not on the list of survivors. she had to tell their two small children that their father would never come home from work. juliana farmer, tommy elliott, my friend, no longer with us because it's louisville, i didn't just know tommy i knew tommy well. his wife even worked with my wife for a time at a company here in town their lives have been forever changed. the people who knew them are forever changed.

our community is forever changed. i am so grateful to the quick response of the louisville metro police department. chief, your team was incredible yesterday. to run head first into that gunfire without question saved lives. it also changed lives. officer wilt, as we know, is fighting right now after being struck in the head by an ar-15 round on his fourth ever shift as a police officer. to the team at u of l, thank you. dr. smith. this is the collateral damage of gun violence every person who touched these victims and these officers had to deal with this trauma and will have to process this trauma in their own way

thank you also to all of our first responders, the louisville fire department, emergency medical technicians, the fbi, atf. to everyone who is involved. continue to pray for the people recovering they need it and we want it today and in the weeks ahead, we are grieving we are hurting we are heartbroken we are decespondent that same community that creates this heartbreak will knit together the strength that brings us back i'm proud of the mayor and his team for the job they have done. i've talked with the governor. i've worked with federal authority and homeland security and the vice president of the

united states. they are sending additioni ing are -- additional resources. this is not the first, second or third time this has happened in our country. they know what to do they're going to be helping us out. i will mobilize resources we need, working with our police departments, our faith leaders, our city and state leaders to make sure that our city receives what it needs to begin healing and we need to take this grief and turn it into action. i am a person of faith i was raised in the church we raised our kids in the church please, if you are a person of faith and you want to give us your thoughts and your prayers, we want them and we need them. our community is hurting but we need policies in place

that will keep this from happening again so that thoughts and prayers do not have to be offered to yet another community ripped apart by the savage violence coming from guns. look at what's happening i had somebody tell me the other day, don't make this political fine don't make this political. people's lives aren't political. public safety isn't political. put those policies in place that put people first, people over guns, kids over guns, public safety over guns because that is what we need to address this problem i'm an optimist. maybe to be a democrat in kentucky you have to be. but i have seen us come together in the state legislature where i served before being elected to

congress, working with some of my conservative colleagues to introduce crisis aversion laws that would help temporarily remove firearms from people in crisis this investigation is dynamic, it's ongoing but we know this shooter purchased an ar-15 rifle on april 4th. we know he left a note we know he texted or called at least one person to let them know he was suicidal and contemplating harm but we don't know have the tools on the books to deal with someone who is an imminent danger to themselves or others we can do this we can come together at the federal level, working with each other, to solve this problem which is impacting all of us in a uniquely american way. get universal background checks so people who shouldn't have a gun can't buy one. that we are taking weapons of war off of our streets

that we are helping people who are in crisis. that is not a political issue. but it becomes one when kentucky republicans would rather ban books and pronouns and then make kentucky a sanctuary state for weapons. we are hurting and no matter what policy we pass, it will not bring back these people this will not bring back our friends, our neighbors and our loved ones we will continue to get the resources for our community that we need. and we will continue to work to make sure that we have the policies in place that keep other families, other loved ones, other kids from going through this tragedy again

>> thank you, congressman. dr. smith, the chief, congressman, myself, we're available to take some questions from the media because we have many people joining us that we don't typically see, if you could let us know what your outlet is as we call on you >> from cnn. if you could speak or maybe the police chief could speak to the motive have we made any grounds on that do we know what the motive is? secondly, it sounds like there was a lot of planning to this. the note that was mentioned that was left, the purchase of the weapon on the 4th. can we get more details about that and what the level of planning was for this? >> chief might have other things to add i don't believe we have any other information to provide at this point as the chief mentioned, we have been able to confirm he was a current employee of the bank and when he purchased the weapon do we have anything --

>> there's nothing else further at this time we do know that this was targeted he knew those individuals, of course, because he worked there. the evil played out yesterday taking those lives and injuring so many others, just truly unfortunate. the investigation is ongoing whatever we uncover, it will be revealed to everyone [ inaudible. >> we don't have an answer to that we don't know. we know what the results are we will continue that as part of the investigation. >> can you speak about what facts we know about protocol [ inaudible when we will know how many -- >> i have my colleagues here who have done an extraordinary work in helping me yesterday.

i would like to highlight lieutenant crowell he is over the investigation i think it's appropriate for him. >> thank you at this point, because of the complexity of the scene, we made the determination to segment the internal shooting, between the shooter and the employees, to a homicide investigation and then the public integrity unit will be the external shooting, which was between the suspect and the officers there's two separate investigations going metro police will handle both. we discussed it with and determined it was the appropriate route for us to keep it within our own structure there. as far as number of rounds or any specific information, it's quite some time before we will share any specifics that would take the investigation one way or another as we said multiple times, it

was an ar-15 >> my question is for dr. smith. thank you, first of all. can you share with us what is on your heart and what that process was like for you and the team who had to operate on officer wilt and how long the surgery took >> sure. i won't get into too many specifics about the patients we are caring for we did operate on three of them yesterday. they required emergency operations my team were professionals we train for this. it's difficult -- it's very difficult to be able to process what's going on during that time the training that we do with our emergency department nurses and physicians, our surgical services, our trauma teams, the blood bank, all of that makes a

huge difference in being able to save those lives because we have to act quickly i will be honest, caring for three shooting victims plus the other that came in is not an unfrequent day for us. the events surrounding this made this obviously much more difficult. but to be honest with you we barely had to adjust to be able to do this that's how frequent we are having to deal with gun violence in our community i will tell you personally, i'm weary. i've been louisville 15 years, all at university hospital i've cared for victims it's more than tired i'm weary. there's only so many times you can walk into a room and tell someone they're not coming home tomorrow it just breaks your heart when you hear someone screaming mommy

or daddy, it becomes too hard day in and day out to be able to do that. my team is fantastic they are absolute professionals and they are wonderful but sooner or later, it catches up to everybody. you just can't keep doing what we're doing. because you just can't keep seeing these lives lost. you can't keep seeing all the people with these horrific injuries coming through the door without doing something to try and help them. i don't know what the answers are. i'm a doctor i don't know what the answers are. but to everyone who helps make policy, at state, city, federal, i would simply ask you to do something. because doing nothing, which is what we have been doing, is not working. we have to do something, because this is just getting out of hand across our city and across this great nation of ours sorry. >> thank you

is officer wilt awake? >> he is still in the icu. he is sedated. again, i apologize i'm not going to release any other information for the patients that we are taking care of >> still in critical you said the next 24 hours are intense. is that still the same today >> yes he is in critical condition in our icu. he is being treated by our neurosurgery team, being treated by our trauma team and anesthesia >> another person was able to leave and walk out of the hospital how does that feel to see the good part of this today? >> yeah. the answer is that today we had four -- we may have three. the ones that are doing well are doing well i think the work that we do with

the physicians and the nurses at the hospital is just -- it's unbelievable sometimes the people we are able to save these days we are partners like the red cross that can get us 170 units of blood in an eight-hour period of time. the coordination of the city, of the health care system and the hospital is outstanding to be able to say that those patients are going home