, heart pounding body cam. footage of those critical and terrifying minutes. officers rushing toward the gunfire, and now the killer s family is speaking up about what they call his mental health challenges. officials say the smoke pouring into the skies over indiana is definitely toxic. we are live on the scene of this huge recycling plant fire. thousands have been told to evacuate these stories and more all coming in to cnn news, central. there is an emergency unfolding in eastern indiana. happening now toxic smoke billowing into the air over the city of richmond, this as fire crews are making progress. they have contained the fire to the plant itself, but they are still battling that plant at the fire still very much burning, as it has been for the last day. 2000 people have been ordered to evacuate their homes, and officials say it could be days before the danger clears. omar jimenez is live for us on the scene, omar you ve been there now for some time described the situa
family was aware the shooter struggled with depression. however they said they didn t see any signs or even know he was capable of such violence. i want to read part of their statement to you, which says, in part no words can express our sorrow, anguish and horror at the unthinkable harm. our son connor inflicted on innocent people. sarah i don t know about you, adrian, but it always leaves me with questions as to why someone who says they want to kill themselves ends up killing so many people and then doing a suicide by cop. alright, let s go over to kate. this is just hard to watch. and i know you and shimon are going to go through this for us, and you talk through some of the key moments that have been revealed in the body camera video, especially octopuses here just to walk through what sticks out. you in some of these key minutes? i mean, it was five minutes, all told for them to neutralize the suspect. once they got the dispatch and got on
the scene, but let s start with officer wilt body camera, shimon , because you think this shows some important elements about the police response? will nicholas world is the officer who was shot in the head who is recovering from his injuries in critical condition right now in the hospital. let s play this just 10 days on the job. on his fourth shift only driving here. and you hear galloway as they re trying to get. gunfire is coming to them. he s back up, back up and what you see here and i want to stop it. hear a little bit. you see, galloway, this is galloway. this is wilt wilt is just armed with his sidearm. that s all he has. wilt goes right to the back of the car to get his long ride five long rifle. why this is important because this is how they trade. that an active shooter situations they go to get their long rifle to give them more firepower. and you re going to see eventually encountering someone with correct but this is how they train and i think that s so significant. you
them be so courageous to go towards the gunfire continue to go towards the gunfire. you know just a rookie officer and keep their nerves about them to let their training training even the rookie officer, even the rookie officers training taking effect and then the trained officer, the one who has more seniority who s been you know, on the job more. you see his instincts in his actions to go and get that long rifle you mentioned. these are the five victims of this as adrian and sarah were talking about earlier. there s a vigil tonight to honor these victims, and we remember them as well. it s important also, as we shimon. thank you so much for walking through this. we re going to continue to get more images coming out, but also the programming for all of you make sure to tune in tonight to cnn tonight. katelyn polantz is going to be joined by kentucky s governor, andy beshear. for his first interview since this louisville bank shooting, and as you see, one of these victims was one of hi