Good evening and welcome to Kentucky Edition on this Thursday, April the 13th.

I'm Rene Shaw.

Thank you for winding down your Thursday with us.

We began with the latest from Louisville.

Three days after the mass shooting at old National Bank that left five people dead.

Two people remain in the hospital.

That includes Officer Nicholas Wilt, who was shot in the head.

He remains in critical but stable condition.

People gathered last night at Louisville's Muhammad Ali Center for a vigil to honor the shooting victims.

More on that as our mass shooting coverage continues.

The bells tolled because no one is an island unto themself.

Each is a part of the main.

Everyone's death diminishes me.

So do not sin to ask for whom the bell tolls.

It tolls for the Tommy.

Josh, Julianna, Jim, Diana.

Fathers.

Mothers.

Grandparents.

Children.

Friends.

Each one.

A child of God.

These are irreplaceable.

Kentuckians taken far too soon by a senseless act of violence That is certainly making me feel heartbroken.

I feel like I've relived it over and over again.

I've lost loved ones in this city to gun violence over the years.

It is devastating and it's a jarring realization that in a lot of ways you can't really be safe in a lot of places and is calling on us to figure out what we do to stop this.

I lost one of my best friends on Monday, but I've got two friends and more that survived because LAPD got there in about 3 minutes.

These heroes rushing directly in without pause, without regards to their own safety because they knew lives were on the line.

Heroes like LAPD officer Nicholas, well, who's fighting for his very life for doing the right thing.

And officers like C.J.

Galloway, who after being hit himself, stayed until the entire scene was secured.

I give them thanks personally for their selflessness, for their bravery, and I pray and I hope everybody else joins me praying for Officer Wiltz healing.

We have to come together as a family.

We have to lean into love.

We have to stand together.

And to me, love is an action word.

Love is about addressing the root challenges that create this public health crisis, which is what gun violence is, and dealing with all of the social determinants of health to create healthy, safe communities everywhere.

Where you at a bank, whether you're at church, on a street corner, at a movie cinema, at a mall, you should be safe in a classroom.

You should be safe.

What we need right now in one word is love and a world where we hear a lot of arguments, a lot of anger, where people try to appeal to hatred and division.

How about just love, love for one another, love for even those we disagree with?

Answering words of anger with words of love.

One responsibility I know I have is to focus and lift up my friend Tommy and his family and the families and loved ones of Josh, Juliana, Jim, Diana.

Love, compassion, humility, empathy.

They've got to be able to lead us to a better place.

Well, my faith is tested and it may be even shaken, I do believe.

I still believe.

I believe in a loving God.

That one day will explain to me how this can happen.

And I believe in heaven.

And Tommy, I will see you again.

And we will see all of these incredible individuals again.