there is a scheduled press conference that is about to begin any minute now, of course we ll bring that to you. louisville police department say that the shooter is dead and that there is no longer a threat to the public. according to two senior officials, authorities are currently investigating the shooting as a workplace violence situation. joining us now is nbc s george solis, also with us is nbc s ken dilanian george, what s the very latest as you mentioned, we re waiting for that press conference where we expect the mayor, police chief, as well as governor andy brasheer to get updated information. the extent of the injuries not known at this point, sort of to recap here, we know that this happened shortly after 8:30 according to thauthorities. they heard active gunshots being fired outside or inside of that bank we ll get some clarity here shortly. we know that the shooter was dead on the scene. police at this point were not saying how that occurred officials unable to
Immediate moments after that, and so ken, take us back to this morning at 8:30 in the morning, and for the folks that are just joining us, this is another mass shooting in our country. monday morning, 8:30 in the morning. ken dilanian take us to louisville, kentucky right, so what the police are saying, jose, is that the first call of shots fired at this bank, a well-known bank in the center of the city at 8:30 a.m. comes into police. officers arrive within trhree minutes and they are met with a hail of gunfire. they have not yet said what type of weapon. which by the way, jose, i find curious. they know the answer to that question, but they have not said they also call it an active aggressor when they first announced what was taking place, not an active shooter. i just put that out there. it s curious to me why that terminology was used the police were saying their offices responded immediately. they began firing back at the
Had a rifle, and she had a pistol variant that fires rifle ammunition and another handgun she had three guns when she went into that school sometimes these shooters do carry multiple guns, a long gun, handgun or two long guns that remains to be seen. atf agents who were on the scene, they would have been there quickly too. they ll do an urgent trace on those guns to know exactly where those guns went from the manufacturer to the last retail purchaser s hands which often in a mass shooting is the shooter people who plan these things usually are not career criminals who are robbing banks and in the criminal underworld. they re people who suffer some emotional distress and decide to take out their grudge and frustration on co-workers or others, and they go to the gun store and buy the gun. and you know, they pass a
They re heading toward violence, they can t take the gun away temporarily to make sense of the threat they can t do that in kentucky they can t do that in the covenant private elementary school shooting we just went through with elementary students being shot because that state doesn t have a red flag law. with regard to gun show loopholes, you can go out in any area in america on a weekend, go to the fairgrounds, purchase the gun at a gun show and not go through a background check we still haven t closed the charleston loophole, which defaults to giving a purchaser the gun if the background check takes longer than three days these are no-brainers that we can fix, and then everybody looks for on the nra side says, well, that wouldn t have stopped that shooting or this shooting well, it would have stopped many shootings. so let s learn the facts here, but one of the things i always
There is a scheduled press conference that is about to begin any minute now, of course we ll bring that to you. louisville police department say that the shooter is dead and that there is no longer a threat to the public. according to two senior officials, authorities are currently investigating the shooting as a workplace violence situation. joining us now is nbc s george solis, also with us is nbc s ken dilanian george, what s the very latest as you mentioned, we re waiting for that press conference where we expect the mayor, police chief, as well as governor andy brasheer to get updated information. the extent of the injuries not known at this point, sort of to recap here, we know that this happened shortly after 8:30 according to thauthorities. they heard active gunshots being fired outside or inside of that bank we ll get some clarity here shortly. we know that the shooter was