>> I thank you.

>> A warning you are minutes away from saying the sometimes disturbing bodycam video from Monday's mass shooting in Louisville.

>> here >> are some of the 9-1-1 calls as the shooting took place.

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♪ ♪ >> Good evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION on this Wednesday.

April, the 12th, I'm Renee Shaw.

Thank you for spending some of your Wednesday night with us.

>> People have gathered to honor the 5 people killed in a mass shooting at the old National Bank in downtown Louisville on Monday.

>> That vigil is underway right now with the Muhammad Ali Center.

We'll have more from this vigil tomorrow night on Kentucky Edition.

Louisville is also making mental health professionals available at more than a dozen houses of worship during tonight's midweek Services.

The death toll remains at 5 after Monday's shooting.

You see their pictures here.

Here's some more about those 5 people who were lost on Monday.

Thomas Elliott was 63.

He was senior vice president of Old National Bank.

As we reported, he was a close friend to both the Governor, Andy Beshear and Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg.

We've had a wife and 2 daughters.

Eckert was the bank's executive administrative officer.

She was 57, a wife and a mother of 2.

64 year-old James taught was a market executive at the bank.

He had a wife, children and grandchildren.

40 year-old Josh Barrett was a husband and father.

He was a senior vice president for commercial real estate banking.

Juliana farmer age.

45 was a commercial banking agent.

Her aunt told CNN that former had just started working there 3 weeks ago.

She had 3 children and 4 grandchildren.

Louisville City officials have now released both police body cam video and 9-1-1 calls from Monday's mass shooting.

You're about to see and hear some of both of those pieces of video and audio.

We want to warn you this video and sound could be unsettling to some.

So viewer discretion is advised here's our Casey Parker Bell on how the shooting unfolded.

>> 9-1-1 operator Davis with >> active shooter.

my God.

>> Released 9-1-1, calls give a glimpse of the horror that unfolded at Old National Bank unmovable on Monday.

The first caller says she watched the shooting play out over a video call for Humboldt as police officers arrived on the scene of Monday's shooting.

Gunshots ring >> shots could also be heard in the background of calls from people inside the bank.

>> I'm in the cockpit.

>> Body camera video released by Louisville Metro Police shows officer Cory Callaway grab a weapon out of the back of a police cruiser before heading toward the building with officer didn't close quilt as the 2 approached building.

25 year-old Connor Sturgeon that was waiting with his AR 15 rifle.

>> And the east ♪ >> Wills and Galloway fourfold shot as they approach the father works.

>> Callaway falls down to the shop before taking cover behind a landscaping bystander.

Video shows Galloway moving side to side.

>> Attempting to see the gunman and location of downed Officer Nicholas Wilt.

Video from world's perspective as he was shot.

He's not been released.

>> I think I would.

I would love to have either one of those officers are out with me any day.

They did absolutely exactly what they needed to do to save lives.

>> Officer Wilt was shot in the head and remains in critical condition after undergoing brain surgery at the University of Louisville Hospital.

The 26 year-old wilt had graduated from the police academy just over a week ago.

>> The shooter has an angle on that officer.

We need to get out there.

I don't know where he's at the last blocking it.

>> LMPD released still photographs showing the gunman in the building.

Body camera video shows Galloway return fire.

>> As other first.

♪ >> At 08:45AM.

Less than 5 minutes after officers first arrived on the scene, the gunman was down when officers entered the building.

For Kentucky edition.

I'm Casey Parker Bell.

>> One of the people who called 9-1-1 Monday morning was the gunman's mother.

She told the dispatcher that her son left a note behind and that he did not own a gun.

Here's part of the call.

>> 9-1-1 operator about where is your emergency?

Give me the money could probably it.

The company had it with the old National that may take here moving Main Street old National.

authority, I'm going to kill When Lord had and what exactly is going on that and what it what it really they need the rain, I don't know and getting that information from the KET up.

And I can see it.

Because you're right.

Yeah, probably not.

What the door and come work.

I don't know what to do.

You can help.

I think he never heard a really good kid.

People public.

Okay.

We have even had a terrible national dignity.

They ready to go into there.

I don't know.

I don't know anything if he if he didn't believe Where did you get that information from?

Who told us come and gone on?

His roommate called me.

The report found that play.

I'm fine.

I don't want to do it.

Your name and number and hearing it.

Officers have additional questions.

We'll give you a call back.

But I'm going to let them know, KET, okay, what do I do to go to?

No, I don't want you to go to the location, OK?

I'm now I don't want you to go to the location.

I hope they should write.

I don't want you to go to the location.

We have a we have a situation that's going on down there right now.

We've already had called for the people and I do not need to go to the location at this time of great things.

Are there.

It had cold some of the people to carry their yeah.

That all National Bank on East Main Street we have and I'm advising you not to go to the location because it's an unsafe situation.

Officers are already at the Okay, too.

I think, you know, I find it.

>> As we have reported, the gunman had purchased an AR 15 rifle legally.

Here's a statement from Connor Sturgeon's family sent to Louisville media quote, while Connor, like many of his contemporaries had mental health challenges, which we as a family, we're actively addressing.

There were never any warning signs or indications he was capable of the shocking act.

While we have many unanswered questions, we will continue to cooperate fully with law enforcement officials and do all we can to 8 everyone in understanding why and how this happened.

End quote.

Yesterday.

We talked with Louisville Deputy Mayor David James.

He told us he was familiar with the gunman.

>> And he'd actually been in this room last year.

He I was a part of a program leadership program stood on that stage.

And so to see a person that.

Went from that to to be a murderer in our city it's gut wrenching.

>> While the community, of course, continues to grieve the loss of the 5.

Louisville Younes killed by the gunman Monday calls for action are amplifying state representative could Tour Heron of Louisville finds herself grappling with policy approaches that can prevent deadly gun violence in Louisville and across the state.

I spoke with her earlier today.

>> Sometimes I'm just trying to figure out as well as a leader.

What what is the right thing to do?

How do you hold victims, how the whole community members, how do you hold past survivors of gun violence and people who have been traumatized over the other things that we've had that we dealt with and the city of local and so those are are kind of the initial thoughts that I had land on our today.

Yeah.

>> Completely understandable.

And I hate to pivot to policy and politics, but often times it seems we have a shorter time span when these things happen.

Before we jump to those conversations.

So please don't think it insensitive.

But we did hear Mayor Craig Greenberg say yesterday, you know that conversation.

It's that's over.

We need action.

And he called on state lawmakers of which you are part of that Kentucky General Assembly to give Louisville the autonomy to make and decide its own gun policy.

And particularly when it comes to auctioning off confiscated weapons and then reselling them back on the street your thoughts?

Is that enough?

And what more do you think is needed?

>> I think that he is he is completely right now is the time for in Kentucky to make meaningful changes to gun laws.

I think one of the things I we may differ on a little bit is that I think he's completely right.

That little needs to be able to make their own decisions.

But as someone who's been advocating to reduce gun violence for many years, someone who has had a cousin not commit suicide.

Someone who has a family member was incarcerated because they were perpetrator of gun And 2 people lost their lives to someone who has lost many young people to gun throughout the years.

I've worked with youth in the community.

I believe that this is a statewide issue.

I believe that this issue was a public health issue.

I think that the gun violence that we're seeing in Louisville in Lexington and Richmond, Kentucky, across the state.

I think it's an epidemic and I think we have to address this issue to a public health winds.

And I think that it's going to take any a different strategies and tactics.

To to do it.

I think that we have a weird with guns in our state and I think as we say in mass shootings happened, I mean, we saw the high school.

We saw the Marshall a school shooting and now we see this.

And and 30 years ago, the other shooting that happened.

I'm here in Louisville.

I believe that there has been a sense normalizing gun violence.

And so I think for me, I want this conversation to happen of of of not just this is a local issue.

I believe this is a statewide issue.

And I think that we have to address this together.

The Louisville shooting tragedy has drawn media attention from across Kentuckyian national news networks and publications.

>> In addition to the emerging developments, Louisville public media is also focusing on the policy ideas that arise and perhaps even the absence of policies that could have contributed to the deadly shooting.

Yesterday I spoke with reporter Justin Hicks about how he's approaching his coverage and the community response.

>> So I mean, details are Just feels like every other hour.

So, you know, KET of the details.

I'm also keeping with the details as they change.

Right?

That's another thing when you cover shooting.

But also just, you know, being sensitive and being where when you cover shooting of the the trauma that not only year kind of taking yourself as a reporter, but the trauma that everyone in the community has, even if they were not in the bank, you know, it is a community trauma.

>> Well, we know that shootings here are not abnormal, right.

There are several shootings a day and little.

>> I would say as with many cities to as with many cities, too.

But it's the mass nature.

>> Centered on one building at a particular time.

And then just coincidentally, there was another shooting at a college community college campus.

The timing could not have the words to the timing was just.

>> Erie.

And so are people here unnerved base.

They feel more unsafe or do they realize that this was a targeted event and therefore they don't feel like they're in harm's way.

I'm sure plenty of people right now feel a little on this sense of these.

>> Heading a mass shooting in your backyard in your town.

And again, this is a city, but it's still, I think, as they said in this recent presser, it's a city where people know each other to see where people know each other's names.

I think that nursing.

Where does the story go from here for you?

I mean, what is it that you're curious to learn about when they were actually very curious about is the alert for people who lived here locally.

I happen to be subscribe to an alert system called winds, which is a local Amber alert system that told me 8.45.

The said there is a shooting in your area, you know, avoid this area other than get alerted to a 10, 30 long after the shooting was over.

So one thing that we're trying to figure out is sort of what's going on with that alert system and is as effective as it could be.

And it's kind of looking at policies for how can we KET this from happening?

And I'm sure that will be what plenty of political stories to come out as well.

The time will tell kind of how that shakes out right?

>> And does it overshadow any the individual tragedies that happened every day, whether their fatal or nonfatal shootings.

Yeah.

I think one thing that's interesting to me is reporter it.

We see all this national attention when there's this mass shooting and it is Aksing Day when there was one person shot just, you know, about a mile away.

No one's asked for that person's name.

No one has said who is that one person that was shot, right?

Although you can tell clearly from city leaders that they are just as upset about these one by one by one by one shootings that have added up to 40 shootings this year.

>> As that with this one mass shooting that has the 5 victims 6, if you include a shooter.

>> 6 shooting victim was released from the hospital.

This afternoon.

2 people remain hospitalized.

♪ Pivoting to politics now.

Daniel Cameron, a Republican candidate for governor, is out with a new commercial criticizing Governor Andy Beshear's handling of the COVID pandemic.

>> The governor Beshear ignore the Constitution and shut your knees down.

So I took him to court involved to reopen churches.

>> Governor Beshear has defended his decisions restricting public gatherings during the COVID pandemic saying he was trying to save lives.

Public.

And Kelly, Kraft is also out with a new commercial claiming, quote, woken us has taken over Kentucky's public schools.

>> Our schools are under attack.

Bureaucrat, parachuting in to hijack our children's tea time.

>> In the ad craft goes on to say if elected she will dismantle the Kentucky Department of Education and quote, Start fresh.

Time now for a check in of some major developments in Kentucky this week, particular related to the Louisville mass shooting with our good friend Ryland Barton, managing editor of Kentucky Public Radio.

Good to see your island.

>> C 2 and I know it's been a tough few with the mass shooting there in Louisville.

And we're going to focus our discussion today.

There was right before we started to record.

They released the 9-1-1 call.

And can you tell us a little bit more about that?

>> Right.

LMPD released about an hour of 9-1-1. from folks who are the this active shooting situation from neighboring businesses there.

Some calls from inside the witnesses describing a plenty seen that witness did not know what was going confirming some details that we've heard in recent days that that the shooter was a was an employee of the The 4th caller in the list was actually that of the shooter's mother, mother.

He said that her son had apparently left She said that he had never heard anybody before that.

The family doesn't own guns.

She was unsure where he had gotten.

One of the family released a statement earlier this morning.

Really addressing the and and then reaching out to all the all the who beat her and really LMPD officers for their heroic efforts in stopping him, which is something that happened yesterday LMPD released the bodycam footage showing how officers took down the shooter in a standoff at the front of the building.

>> So do we have any confirmation about whether or not he was facing termination from the bank?

Do we know any more about his employment status?

>> That hasn't been confirmed by anybody yet.

There's a lot of details that are floating around this.

They are around the shooting that we just don't have confirmation yet.

LMPD is investigation into this is ongoing.

We do not know a lot of details you know, the shooter's motive or mental state before this.

Besides, you know, really his rendition in this 9-1-1, calls the first that we really have a confirmed or released from her standpoint on that.

So now let's shift and talk about the official response from city officials there.

>> And Louisville, also the governor and and whether other political folks have come out and made comment about this.

We know that the mayor has made a sharp call for action and for let Louisville to have their own decision-making power when it comes to deciding their gun policies asking state lawmakers to give them edit me.

What we hearing?

>> Yeah, that's right.

So currently Kentucky is a law on the books that precludes local governments from regulating firearms and anyway.

So that's what the governor was call or what the mayor is calling for is Louisville and other local governments have a little bit more autonomy in deciding how to do that was really singling out this one particular state law that requires guns confiscating during of criminal investigations to the auctioned off back to the public.

So the gun involved in this shooting will actually be auctioned back off to the public at one So he's calling for repeal to that.

Other you Democratic Congressman Morgan McGarvey calling some of the gun safety legislation.

Some Democrats in the Kentucky renewing the call for gun safety legislation, including a red flag laws which I think is becoming more and more in focus as this tragedy starts on Foles a red flag law being of a law that would allow families or are police too of created have a process to remove guns from a person who is deemed to be a danger to themselves or others temporarily until they can prove that they're not.

so this is renewing that whole conversation.

But a lot of these policies have been in the Republican led legislature.

And really there haven't been a lot of Republicans are Republican leaders coming out and talking at all about what role government plays in in addressing gun violence in Kentucky.

>> Also, we should mention that current Senate judiciary chair in Kentucky.

Whitney Westerfield has kind of tweeted out his desire to have further conversations.

And we know that he's been involved and conversations about reducing gun violence.

Quite hadn't gotten attraction.

I think that he wanted, but he is one Republican who has signaled some interest and starting the conversation where it goes from here.

Who knows?

>> Yeah.

It was very notable in the wake of of the You know, he wasn't calling for anything specific, just saying he wants to have conversations about whether government should play a role in this.

low public media public to publish a story Kevin Bratcher as A little Republican representative said he's willing to hear out.

You know, he's expressing it seems that there's some movement, at least in the wake of this tragedy.

But that's a lot of how these discussions go sometimes are some open this right after a shooting tragedy and that often times the discussion gets lost in, you know, and whatever other news item comes down the road.

>> Yesterday Mayor Craig Greenberg was asked about a special session.

Of course, that's not in his power jurisdiction to call state lawmakers into session to take this out.

But we're not hearing anything about Governor Andy Beshear's intentions to do that at this time.

>> No, and we really haven't heard much of a policy wise from the governor on this He certainly came out and was consoling Louisville and Kentucky after this tragedy.

But, you know, he has and he's come out Boeing for any specific to deal with gun safety, gun violence.

I think it will be interesting tomorrow.

I imagine the governor we have in his weekly press conference and you'll be asked about these things.

But yes, you know, if you are, you know, he's the only one who has the power to call a special legislative session on this sort of you know, this is year attempting to is the secure You know, this is a sensitive in such gun.

The U.S.

Pro Second Amendment rights state.

>> Well, Roland Martin, thank you as always for your time today.

And thank you for your great work.

You and the folks at Lobel Louisville, Public Media for all your great work.

We appreciate it.

♪ >> Some fashion students at the University of Kentucky have spent their semester organizing a runway show centered on local retailers.

The caller May Kentucky Fashion Show has a twist this year, a UK basketball player has returned to his alma mater to debut his new clothing line.

That story in this week's look at arts and culture, we call tapestry.

>> The color of the Kentucky Fashion Show is a student Purdue show that is a class that students are mauled and as an elective in the merchandising apparel and textiles program, today's fitting models being paired with the actual clothing that they're going to wear down the runway.

>> So today was a really big deal for us.

We've been trying to get romelda see.

We've been trying to see his styles for He's been very secretive, but he's been working very h*** o* them.

He sent us some previews, but it was just only on a power point.

So we couldn't really see what they look like.

So today getting to see everything and being able to touch and feel it all and see the stylebook say he had chosen is really amazing.

Always had a dream of studying that UK.

>> Being a starting point guard at UK and also studying fashion because ultimately wanted to create my own clothing brand.

So for me to be able to have this is ultimately a dream come Most of my life choices were inspired by my family and by my community.

I had a family.

We started a mission and a part of that mission was to Kohl's folks in our community.

My grandmother was the sound of that mission.

And we're not really decided to live out my goals and aspirations due to her transitioning.

I thought about them in the brain goddess of the hills.

So I name the brand gas or got of the hills.

This inspired by her.

But it's ultimately so those of us who continue to reach our in a God or goddess King or queen.

>> I think it's very exciting that rim L is debuting his got of the hills collections for the first time in our fashion show because he was once a student here.

And really when Hughes out and you get to know him, it's very important to him.

He gives back.

It's just like a perfect full circle way for him to connect con of the strain that he's had with the giving back to the students were actually really excited when Doctor Wesley told me that he wanted to participate.

We kind of jumped at the opportunity.

>> We know that.

For him.

This is his dream.

And this is what he's passionate about.

And he is so inspiring when he talks about his line and why he created it.

And I think he'll bring a lot to the show.

>> When you go to Jack, you, I like the same guy.

Yes, the city was plants.

It some of the brand and Brooklyn, but it was cold to in the hills of Appalachia and the Houses of Appalachia.

it's a reflection of who I am, the places the culture that inspired it.

So it's very much can s*** it.

>> Want to walk good deal.

The Color me Kentucky Fashion Show is tomorrow night at Kroger Field.

>> Well, when you think Kentucky, you may not think caviar.

Well, start.

>> We draw from Kentucky like like Barkley, the Ohio River, the Mississippi River.

We get fish out of like Cumberland.

I get fish from up around the Louisville area.

>> You'll meet a Kentucky man who makes what he calls America's best caviar.

We hope to get a taste that's tomorrow night on Kentucky edition, which we hope will see you 4 at 6.30, Eastern 5.30, central.

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