very good thursday morning to you. i m jim sciutto. i m poppy harlow. we re following several major stories this morning including the nation s 233rd mass shooting just this year. more shootings than days in the year so far. this time, in a hospital in tulsa, oklahoma. at least four people were killed yesterday when a gunman carrying a handgun and a rifle opened fire inside of the facility. officials say the shooter is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. this is not normal. shootings in numbers like this are unique to this country. the data shows it. officials describe the gunman in this latest mass murder as a black male between the ages of 35 and 40. investigators still working on determining the motive, but believe the shooter was targeting a specific individual at the hospital. this is not a random event. it s not as if he went to hospital and was indiscriminately shooting at people. he very purposefully went to this location, went to a very specific floor and
from tulsa police after a deadly mass shooting there at a medical complex last night. police say a gunman carrying a rifle and a handgun killed four people and injured nearly a dozen others at an orthopedic clinic and officials are saying the attack was not random and the shooter died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. once the news conference we will, of course, be bringing that to you live. the gun violence archive says this is 209sth mass shooting in america since the murders at robb elementary in uvalde, texas, just since then. this morning we are learning more details about the investigation into uvalde as well. let s get to all of it starting in tulsa, oklahoma, lucy is standing by. what are we expecting to hear from officials when they start this news conference? kate, we re expecting to hear from the mayor, the police chief and officials from st. francis hospital in a few minutes. here s what we know. we know an ar-style rifle was used in the buffalo sup