recognized him or was he still technically on the books there? so some answers starting to emerge? a lot of questions still coming. all right. we re gonna let you dig on some of those questions. john. stick around and our thanks to scott jennings as well. and scott, we re glad that you and your family are okay. just know that we re thinking about all the people in louisville and we are following the breaking news for people are dead. the shooter also dead. at least eight now injured, two in critical condition. two police officers are among the wounded. this is cnn news, central. stay with us. you re doing business in an app driven multi cloud world. that s why you choose vmm ware with flexible m multi cloud services that enenable digital innovation and enterprise control helps you keep your cloud options open. every piece of land has a story. written by
pretty shocking and pretty tragic. and louisville, by the way, is a city that has for the last several years been one of the more violent cities in america. we have a very high homicide rate here anyway, and then you throw this shooting on top of it, and it s just a lot of heartbreak for the city will be governor. bashir said that his campaign for attorney general was in that building at the old national bank and said he knows to people who didn t make it out today. another one who was being treated in the hospital right now we talked about the mayor. you say the violence that has been in that city. the mayor himself survived a shooting last year during his campaign. um scott, just just give us a sense, and i know you said you re about a mile or two away right now, if you have a sense of the people you re talking to just how this is hitting there for you, and for others this morning. well, people are really just stunned because that part of downtown
louisville. i want to thank louisville fire louisville, metro e. m s and emergency management, the louisville sheriff s office for the immediate response. they ve now been joined by the fbi, atf. homeland security. kentucky state police have requested the louisville office of safe and healthy neighborhoods in this response. this is awful. i have a very close friend that didn t make it today. and i have another close friend who didn t either and one who s at the hospital. but i hope is going to make it through. so when we talk about praying, i hope people will for those that we. are hoping can make it through the surgeries that they re going through. and then we ve got to do what we have done these last three years after everything. we ve got to wrap our arms around these families. and everybody who needs it. don t be afraid to get some help. our
and so there was a huge debate about crime in louisville, kentucky, one of the top issues background on the shooting. so, um it s just this has been discussed. um you know, really, for the last several years is, what are we going to do about the violence in louisville? now? we haven t had mass shootings like this one. but we have had a lot of homicides here. very high homicide rate. um and it was noted by someone earlier, the louisville police department has been in the eye of the storm regarding policing procedures here because of the brianna taylor case, and then the department of justice report that came out. so when you think about public affairs or political affairs in a city louisville. i would say as much as any other city in america has been having a community conversation in a community debate about violence, and so do i feel like parts of the city are violent. absolutely i mean, there there. this is a common conversation you would have with people living here. i don t think a
bank, where this all this tragedy took place this morning starting around 8 30 in the morning. got much more ahead. thank you so much for joining us, though this is cnn. new central. the breaking news coverage on this louisville. shooting continues on inside politics. that s up next. tomorrow at eight and a c. 3 60 exclusive after a brutal cartel attackck and kidnapping in mexio , surviving american hostages latavia washington and eric williams share the details of their captivity for the first time on cnn, anderson cooper 36 tomorrow on cnn. my name is bria lalo. i teach ap and pennsylvania. fincialellsburgh, being, to me is knowing that i can be free to do the things that i love to do. i hope when i retire someday they say that guy made this place a special place to come to school and gave as much as he could to help the community. with fast signs