We begin tonight with the latest from yesterday's mass shooting at the old National Bank in downtown Louisville.

A fifth victim has now died of her wounds.

That victim is 57 year old Deanna Eckert.

Three patients are still in the hospital, including Officer Nicholas Wilt, who remains in critical condition.

Another five victims have been released.

Today, Louisville's interim police chief released more details about the gunman, 23 year old Connor Sturgeon, including the weapon he used, an AR 15 rifle.

We have learned that the suspect in this incident was a current employee with Old National Bank.

We have also learned that he purchased the weapon used in this tragic incident on yesterday.

On April the fourth, he purchased the weapon legally from one of the local dealerships here in Louisville.

We have executed a search warrant on his residence and we have recovered items and we cannot get into specific details on what we recover at this time, because, again, the investigation is ongoing and we want to make sure that we're providing accurate information.

The family deserves that and the community deserves that.

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenburg said his focus is moving forward on trying to unify members of the community.

Today, he also made two requests of state lawmakers.

First, he asked for Lord Wall to have autonomy to deal with what he called a unique gun violence epidemic in the Derby City.

Second, he encouraged lawmakers to do more to keep confiscated guns from ending back up on the streets.

Under current Kentucky law, the assault rifle that was used to murder five of our neighbors and shoot at rescuing police officers will one day be auctioned off.

Think about that.

That murder weapon will be back on the streets one day under Kentucky's current law.

My administration has already taken action to remove the firing pin before turning confiscated guns over to the state, because that's all that the current law allows us to do.

That's not enough.

It's time to change this law and let us destroy illegal guns and destroy the guns that have been used to kill our friends and kill our neighbors.

Mayor Greenburg also announced details for a community wide vigil.

It's scheduled for tomorrow night, Wednesday at 5 p.m. Eastern Time at the Muhammad Ali Center.

The city is also making mental health professionals available at more than a dozen houses of worship tomorrow.

We also heard from Dr. Jason Smith with the University of Louisville Hospital at today's press conference.

His team treated the victims in yesterday's shooting.

Dr. Smith was candid about how shootings are all too frequent in Louisville.

But I'll be honest, caring for three shooting victims and plus the other that came in is not enough.

Frequent day for us.

And the events surrounding this made this obviously much more difficult.

But to be honest with you, we barely had to adjust our operating room schedule to be able to do this.

That's how frequent we are having to deal with gun violence in our community.

I'll tell you personally, I'm weary.

I've been in Louisville for 15 years, all of it at University Hospital.

For 15 years, I've cared for victims of violence and gunshot wounds.

And people say I'm tired, but I'll be answer.

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.

And it just breaks your heart when you hear someone screaming mommy or daddy.

It just becomes too hard day in and day out to be able to do that.

Now, my team is fantastic.

They're absolute professionals and they're 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.

And 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, both at state, city, federal, I would simply ask you to do something because doing nothing, which is what we've been doing, is not working.

Dr. Smith also encouraged people to donate blood.

He said his team used 170 units of blood yesterday, which is far more than the hospital has on standby on any given day.

You can find donation centers at Red Cross blood dot org.

Well, emotions, as you can imagine, are still running high the day after the mass shooting there in Louisville today, I caught up with the deputy mayor, David James, who talked about losing close friend Tommy Elliott, who was the senior VP of the bank.

When this happened.

You may not have known the people directly that were injured or killed in this unfortunate and tragic event.

But you may know someone that does it may be somebody that you worked with or somebody's cousin or uncle.

And so the people have just really been touched by this throughout the entire community.

And people know each other and they love each other in this city.

And so it's it's hurt us to our core.

Yeah, it's very personal to me.

You know, I knew Tommy Elliott, for example, friend of mine scheduled to go to dinner with him next week.

I just texted with him on Friday.

Sorry, Tommy, for his wife as a friend of mine.

I saw her at the hospital yesterday, and we were scheduled to go to dinner.

And as soon as I saw, you know, we hugged each other and I didn't have the words to say to her.

I mean, that her husband killed my friend.

And so, you know, we are all very connected to each other in this community.

It's very hard having some common sense.

Gun laws has got to be something that we are focused on through the state, Local governments in the state of Kentucky are not allowed to do anything with any gun.

And so the fact that the weapon that was used to kill five of our friends to be auctioned off to somebody else is unthinkable to me.

How can that be logical?

How can we say that?

That's right.

It's not.

And so I really want the state legislature to to look at where we are and what needs to be changed.

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Congressman Morgan McGarvey, who represents Louisville, says enough is enough when it comes to gun violence.

I sat down with him today in his Louisville office where he described the moment he found out about the tragedy.

It was absolute dread that feeling or something.

We first started getting reports there was a shooting.

And it's it's it's weird because you're almost hoping it's not a mass shooting that just something went wrong.

Maybe it was a bank robbery.

Maybe.

Maybe this isn't this isn't coming to our community.

This epidemic of gun violence isn't coming here to Louisville.

And then the names start coming out.

Right.

And for me, I lost a good friend and Tommy Elliott because Louisville Small, my wife used to work with his wife.

I mean, I've known Tommy a long time.

I got a call in the middle of the day, frantic from a woman who was our maid of honor.

We're the godparents of two of her children.

And she said, I'm at Jessica Barack's house.

She can't find out anything about her husband.

Can you find out what's happened?

And I called LAPD very responsive, as they were all day yesterday.

And, you know, and they told me we can't conclude anything.

But he's not on the list of survivors.

And to have to call back and give that news, you know, pales in comparison of what his wife that had to tell their two small children that night.

I mean, this community is is going to hurt for a long time.

One of the things we have heard is about the responsiveness of the police, of the first responders within minutes of being contacted.

They were on the scene in 3 minutes.

I mean, can you talk about the heroism and the quick response and that it could have been much worse in terms of the casualties and fatalities?

Without question, the brave actions and quick response of the Louisville Metro Police Department and all of our first responders saved lives.

They saved lives.

There's a young man who walked in with an AR 15 on a monday morning after Easter, and the police were on the scene and they they literally put their bodies in the line of fire and saved lives.

And we owe them an unpayable debt of gratitude for that.

We've heard a lot of thoughts and prayers.

Congressman, you have been one when you were in the state Senate, had proposed legislation that seemed to be common sense, as some people would say, even bipartisan.

There was a now retired Republican who sponsored what many might call red flag legislation.

Where does that conversation need to go?

And many would say, particularly in this community.

We're beyond conversation.

We want action.

What should it be?

I appreciate the sincere prayers of everyone offering them because they're needed.

These families, these people, these individuals, our community, we need those prayers as we heal.

No policy is going to bring them back, but policy is going to keep this from happening again.

And I'm tired of saying there's nothing we can do when we're doing nothing.

I am angry and I am frustrated by the lack of political courage to do something about this passing universal background checks.

90% of Americans agree that this is something that is good and necessary.

So we know that people who shouldn't have guns can't buy them.

Let's ban these weapons of war.

This young man walked in with an AR 15 rifle yesterday.

That is a weapon of war.

It doesn't need to be on any streets, especially our streets here in Louisville, Kentucky.

And then I think we have to look at the mental health side of this.

We can't ignore that.

What we know now is that the shooter did reach out to someone.

He did say, I am feeling suicidal.

I'm thinking about doing this.

We know the shooter left a note.

We know the shooter live streamed what he was doing.

What if we'd had a law like an extreme risk protection order, a crisis, a version rights retention order that the person or people who knew this about him could have reached out and maybe, maybe could have prevented this tragedy.

It's Pastor Jim that we really come together, that we say enough is enough, that we have the will to talk about people's lives and public safety and stop this almost uniquely American crisis.

As we prepared tonight's broadcast.

Louisville Police released body camera video from yesterday's shooting.

We are still reviewing that video and we'll share it with you tomorrow on Kentucky Edition.