and friends first on tuesday morning, i m todd piro. ashley: i m ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. we re learning about the heroic officer who is in critical condition, after being shot in the head while lunging toward the gunman. he graduated from the police academy just 10 days ago. lauren blanchard joins us. he was shot in the head when he ran toward the shooter in the louisville, kentucky shooting yesterday. nicholas wilt graduated just days ago and has been undergoing surgery. a fifth victim has died and eight others hurt, including two officers. hospital code three. officers to the hospital, code three. transporting one officer, get the hospital ready. the alleged gunman began
little girl has been shot at 26th and lawndale. reporter: the 7-year-old girl was shot in the neck, an innocent bystander when a gunman targeted someone else nearby. the shooting yesterday was reprehensible. reporter: ironically, the press conference had been called to talk about what police said was progress, reducing violence in october. i m disgusted but committed to doing everything we can to find the cowards that would engage in a gun battle where our children were trick-or-treating. reporter: authorities say the shooting was gang related while pleading with witnesses to come forward and scouring the area for surveillance video. i ask you for your prayers for this most vulnerable of victims, i also ask for your eyes and ears. reporter: in a statement tonight, the girl s family expressing gratitude for the outpouring of love and support from around the nation while their daughter remains in serious condition. ron allen, nbc news. a major warning tonight, everyone wi
conference, law enforcement in tennessee on the waffle house shooting yesterday. there is a tremendous amount of law enforcement presence in this immediate area. late yesterday the police department was informed by a citizen from another county that while he was traveling in the area of i-24 and old hickory boulevard near the truck stops of america, he came across a laptop case, a soft laptop case. the citizen saw it just laying there in the grass, picked it up, took it home with him to the other county. when he got home last night and opened it up, he saw that there was a handwritten identification card with the name travis reinking in the bag. now, our intelligence information tells us that reinking was in that immediate area on saturday night. at this juncture, we don t know if that laptop case wound up at
security guards at all public buildings and facilities so you definitely have a lot of armed personnel in this society in general. recently you even had the jerusalem mayor who came out and urged citizens to arm themselves. what we have seen at least according to israeli local media is that there has been an uptick and surge of purchasing weapons from private citizens and registering at shooting ranges for practice and stuff like that. but it does cut to a core issue here which is there is this growing concern among some that as we saw in the case of that shooting yesterday, following the attack that killed an israeli soldier, the incident where the security guard shot a man by accident and the subsequent mob attack, today we heard the spokesperson for the israeli prime minister saying that there is no room for that type of vigilante behavior and that any individual who is seen involved in that is going to be prosecuted. so it is a very important issue. on one hand, israelis feel treme