Another person in attendance at last night's vigil was Whitney Austin.

She was shot 12 times in a similar mass shooting at a bank in Cincinnati in 2018.

Speaking to Katie, Austin told us what it was like to hear about Monday's tragedy, and she offered some advice on how to help survivors of gun violence cope.

At first, I was in a state of disbelief.

I didn't think that it was a mass shooting, thought that it must have been another incident of gun violence.

But really quickly it became clear that it was.

And my first thoughts were with my friends in the banking community to check and make sure if they were okay.

And my second thought was about my experience and taking me back to that moment as far as what's happening in the state of Kentucky.

My organization is focused on a piece of legislation called Crisis Aversion and writes retention card for short.

And we have had bipartisan support from the beginning, and we continue to have bipartisan support.

So I am eager to see how far we can take Carr with our next session.

What it does is allow for a legal path to temporarily transfer a firearm away from a gun owner who is in crisis, a gun owner who is intent upon harming self or others.

We don't have that option today.

And while we don't know everything about the shooting that happened on Monday, it has come out that there were warning signs and that this person was suicidal.

But yet we didn't have a tool to do anything about it.

And car could be that tool can only offer what helped me in this situation.

And it is making sure that we anticipate the needs of these survivors.

For me, people would show up with meals, gift cards, help take care of my children, be my chauffeur to physical therapy and mental health therapy.

I received endless supply of letters of encouragement.

We must do all of those things for these survivors and for survivors of gun violence across our state, because it's really difficult, whether it is the mental journey that they are about to take or the physical journey they are about to take, it is going to be one of the hardest things that they have ever done in their lives.

You know, I feel really comfortable telling you about what happened to me, and I use that as a tool to effect change.

But I know many survivors of gun violence who don't want to talk about it at all.

And so I think it's being respectful of each individual and just asking, do you want to talk about this?

What can I do to help you?

Because many times you're not in a position to organize your thoughts, to tell people what you need and to ask really makes a difference.