Police name victims of shooting at bank building in Louisville

prayers to the family or those who lost their lives today Tommy Elliott age 63 Jim Tutt age 64 Josh Barrett age 40 and Juliana Farmer age 57. We have a total of nine

victims

who were and are being treated at a university, Louisville Hospital, three who are in critical condition, including our officer, three who are listed in non-critical condition and three who have been treated and released, the two officers who attacked in return fired one of the officers who was elevated to the left. side and the other officer suffered minor injuries to the elbow. I just want everyone to know that the officer who is in critical condition today, Officer Nicholas Wilt, 26, just graduated from the

police

academy on March 31st.

He just swore at her and his family was there to witness his journey to becoming a

police

officer. he received a blow to the head involved in this incident. Nick came out of brain surgery and is in critical but stable condition as we speak. I was there with the family and we gave My love and support have been with all the families today to show them our love and support and if you need anything more lmpd we will let you know that the next few days are important and very critical for Nicholas' recovery . This will be a long and complex investigation. that involve the local state and our federal partners.

I will be remiss if I don't recognize our federal partners who have just come to the fore. our local partners ATF FBI. I thank our local partners. University of Louisville Police. EMS emergency management services. Thank you. Thank you for everything and to my lmpd officers who took charge themselves and did not wait to evaluate everything but simply went in to stop the threat so no more lives were lost. They are not appreciated, but I asked my officers when I addressed them today, if we don't do it, who will? That is why they are very committed to their show of resilience today and their show of professionalism today.

I want to thank the governor. I want to thank the mayor who has been with us every step of the way during this difficult and critical time, but I want to encourage the public, if you have any additional information, please call 574 lmpd and help us, this should not continue to happen. Evil should not try to prevail and take over our city and let it happen so I encourage everyone to come together and keep doing the good work and Lmpd will continue to keep this community safe in this city. Thank you very much boss, today is a heartbreaking day. for our city, for all of us and especially for the people in that Old National Bank office and their loved ones.

We just heard the chief give the

name

s of the people who lost their lives in this mass

shooting

this morning, one of them, Tommy. Elliott, a very good friend of mine from the Governors, Tommy's family to the families of Jim Tutt, Josh Barrick, Julianna the Farmer, Rachel and I join you, families from across our city and beyond, in mourning this shocking and painful loss of their lives, the governor we visited in the hospital this morning with several of his relatives to offer them our support and our love during these unthinkable days, we will continue to offer our support and love and everything we can provide to help them, we were also there along with several of my Metro Council colleagues to thank and support lmpd officers for their heroic work today and every day to thank the new generation of graduates who were there to support their fellow officer, will continue to fight for their lives Let's be clear about what this was an evil act of targeted violence and to add to that tragedy, a few blocks away, shortly after this happened, another man lost his life and a woman was shot in an act of violence completely different selective.

Two incidents seem unrelated, but both took lives, both leave people scarred, grieving and angry. I share all those feelings right now. This is really hard for all of us across the city to process and accept. I ask that we respect the needs of families and loved ones. Of the people whose lives were lost today and of the people whose lives will never be the same. I am a survivor of a workplace

shooting

. To the people who survived, whether you were physically injured or not. I know you are suffering too. We are here. For you, as well as the survivors and families, our entire city is here to embrace you, we have established a family assistance center through the Red Cross to provide support and services to those families today and in the coming days, weeks and months ahead we know it will be a challenge to give you everything you need to deal with the trauma of this moment.

The same applies to our police officers and first responders. Our city is here for everyone affected. We are a strong city and we will be. here for support i mentioned that our lmpd officers went into that

building

knowing they were risking their lives to say their lives to save other lives and that is exactly what they did they exchanged gunfire with the shooter officer wilt and his family will continue praying and supporting. To the two other LMPD officers who were injured, thank you and all your colleagues for your service today and every day. I also want to thank all of our other first responders, fire, EMS, Jefferson County Sheriff, state and federal agencies that are helping us with this. time and to Dr.

Smith, you and all the other doctors, nurses and team at uofl Health for your work today and every day, you too are saving lives in our city and we thank you for the rest of us in our city. Let's hold each other and provide comfort where we can, that's what we've done in the past and that's what we need to continue doing now. We have already received offers of assistance from people all over this city and the country. Thank you until the end of the day we will provide specific information on how to provide donations to those affected today, if you wish, we will also have more information at the end of the day about a community vigil for the specific acts of violence that occurred today and any day in our city we will continue to move forward with strength prayer with love support and determination thank you all now I am going to turn it over to Governor Andy Beshear governor okay, today is a tragic day in Louisville and for the entire Commonwealth of Acts of violence like this in Kentucky hurt, tear apart the structure of who we are in our society in our state in our country in this city today I am hurt and I am hurt and I know a lot of people are too Today I lost four children of God, one of whom was one of my closest friends .

Tommy Elliott helped me build my law career, he helped me become governor, he gave me advice on how to be a good father, he is one of the people I talk to the most in the world and very rarely. what we're talking about my job he was an incredible friend we also lost Julianna farmer Jim Tutt Josh Barrett each incredible people whose families mourned them whose community will mourn and miss them these are irreplaceable incredible individuals suffered a terrible act of violence ripped away from us all We also pray for our lmpd officer and two others who at this time, although perhaps stable, are still fighting for their lives in need of our care and yes for our prayers because I believe, believe and believe that prayers lift us all up. and those families would appreciate them and while I heard today, while I will cry when I can, I'm also grateful, I'm grateful for an incredibly quick response from lmpd, Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, Louisville Fire and Rescue, Louisville Metro, EMS. to this scene in three minutes I am convinced to tell other people's lives and I know how to tell two other of my friends what I received incorrect information this morning I thought he was gone and I started to cry and now I know that he is fine and what I could seeing in the emergency room that while it will take a while for him to heal, it is very good to see my friend see him there with his wife and know that he is still with us.

I want to thank KSP ATF FBI all the law enforcement agencies that are They are going to put all their weight and all their resources so that we know exactly what happened in this situation and you know that there are more first responders than the ones we have listed because the hospital team uofl They are also rescuers in the first battle. was stopping that gunman, the second one is doing everything he can to keep those who have been injured alive and I want to tell this good doctor who is behind me and that we have worked together during the pandemics and now I am very proud of what which is your team.

I was in a room where one of those families who are legitimately concerned received an update and it was specific but also given with compassion. These doctors and nurses are fighting for the lives of our family friends and we are deeply grateful. For them, I think what we need most right now, in a word, is love. I mean, just love. Love for these families. They will need it. I can tell you that I have spoken with them. I am very close to one of them. We are going to need that love and we need love for each other.

We seem to argue a lot in this country. So much anger. I still believe that love, compassion and humanity can take us to a better place. Now this is difficult. The day is very difficult. after Easter Now Easter is about a rebirth, a better world, one where we are all supposed to work together to get there, one that is supposed to teach us the love of a savior who came. I will fall in love with them not for their power but for their compassion and I believe that what we can do, whether by faith or simply by their values, is ensure that today more than anything is about these families, those families who fear losing their loved ones, those who have gone through it. the worst and even if they have survived they will bear the scars inside and out today it has to be about them the heroic actions of all those who responded and yes, I know in the next few days we will talk about problems, but I think the thing that People make mistakes after the most difficult moments and days and as governor I have had to see many of them.

Today should we focus well, my friend, and on everyone else's friends and loved ones who are no longer with us? Faith teaches me that while the body is mortal, the soul is eternal, so I know I will see Tommy again and I know that all these families and friends in this community we will meet in a better place, without files, without the senselessness and the pain. that today we feel that we will get through this together, it is the only way we will march forward in My hope is that in honor of those who have fallen today or who may yet fall, we can be better and we can do better. worry about loving each other a little more today, to honor those who have fallen and ask so many families to grieve.

I'm ordering our flags across the state to fly at half-staff through Friday, Friday night, to make sure we're paying tribute to each one of them. part of this Commonwealth for those we have lost We are One Commonwealth United with the city United with these families but we have had to do a lot in these last three years is to hug each other and we have to do it here thank you, well, and next we will hear from Dr. Smith, who leads an incredible team, is trying to make sure that many of those who were injured in this incident get through it and let me say again that he and his hospital have my full support and trust.

I have seen it first hand. What they are doing is incredible. Listen. I know they will do the best they can, and while we don't know what the outcome may be, we should be grateful. so for doing the best you could, thank you very much for that, as reported this morning, the University of Louisville Hospital received nine patients, three of whom are currently in critical condition, the three who are in critical condition required surgical care and from our trauma team and our emergency department services we were able to discharge three and three are still currently in our hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

I want to thank Louisville as a city. I want to thank our police officers and our emergency medical services. I have no doubt that they save lives today. I think they, like many in the healthcare industry, have been through a tough time recently, but they have stood up and stood up for Louisville and the people of Louisville. constantly and have our thanks from U of L Health. I also want to thank my nurses in the emergency department, my doctors in the emergency department, through all of this they remained the professionals that they are, they were able to care for a large number of people who came in seriously injured in a period of very short time we were able to get them to the services they need and so far no one has come to the hospital they have expired now I don't know what the next few days will be, I do know that they are still injured, but I also know that we are all those billions and it doesn't matter Where we come from, no matter who we come fromLet's see, we are all part of Louisville lmpd EMS uofl health, we are here for everyone and so I would like to thank everyone who helped us today I would like to thank all the well wishes I have received both personally and from our healthcare system from around the country, support for people who have been through this throughout the country and know the pain. that my team is currently facing, know the pain that Lmpd and EMS teams are currently facing and you will be with us because, once again, we are all billions.

I want to thank you all again for what you do for us every day, we are a wonderful and integral part of this city and I'm proud to be a part of uofl Health and I'm proud to be a part of uofl Hospital um so with that, thank you and I will hand it over for questions. Thank you very much Dr. Smith. Are you prepared to answer some questions from the media. I think everyone who had surgery today is still sedated. No one is currently awake, but it's still very early in this process for a lot of that information.

Really, the next 24 hours for everyone involved in this that required an operation. This will be the critical time period for us to really understand how well they are going to recover from this acute part of their overall care. They have a long road ahead of them, but if we can get through it in 24 hours, then we'll take it. another 24 hours and we will continue doing this until they leave the hospital. The average person means gunshot wounds can be considered non-life threatening. In this case, yes, they may have gunshot wounds that are not life-threatening. If we had treated a total of five gunshot wounds today at this scene, one officer was shot in the head and you finally hear that he is stable for now, but leave your thoughts there, that is one of the worst moments within the mandate of any police officer.

In this position, hearing that one of his officers has been injured in any way, but seriously injured, but it also bothers me and shakes my world that someone gets hurt and loses their life, so it's really me. I have a lot of respect for the families because they were still present and we are very grateful for what was done and how Lmpd responded today and they were actually hugging me while I was hugging them, but let me say this, the evil that took place today: I shouldn't listen the tears that came from these families and that remain right there because they are crying because someone decided that they wanted to take their life today and so on, but with that I am very grateful and hopeful and I am grateful. to the doctor for stabilizing so many people who could have possibly lost their lives that is a gun what exact type of gun was used and where the shooter died if you know that at this point I don't know if the shooter got the gun but I can only say it was a rifle used as I mentioned earlier about what happened inside the weapons

building

before the shooting this morning.

I repeat that again. Can you talk more about what happened inside the Bank building before the shooting again? This is an ongoing investigation and again, as the governor has said, we want to focus on the families that we want to focus on right now, what happened and as this investigation continues to develop, we will be able to reveal a little more if those things are going to be deleted and was communicating on Instagram before this incident. I will say this that the suspect was live streaming and unfortunately, it's tragic to know that that incident was there and he was captured, so we are hopeful that we can have that incident.

Has this shooter's home been searched in this case? Have you discovered something that manifests itself in things? It's still ongoing within this investigation that's still developing, so I don't want to go into any additional details at this time. meets with the Departments, a hidden tax, as I understand it at this time, on a preliminary basis, that may change, but as I understand it, we have not had any prior engagement with this individual, he worked at Old National Bank, so I assume at this time that he was a citizen of Louisville. and they want to go into detail about that part of the investigation, but again it's ongoing so I respect your questions bay turquoise yes yes thank you yes thank you yes boss my shopping list yes sir yes sir I'm not familiar with any other additional security with that within the location, but again let's focus on this initial incident right here, where we received a quick and timely response and stopped the threat so that no additional loss of life could occur.

We will continue, we will continue to provide updates as we have more information, this has been a very active day that we are, as the governor and the chief said, we are using all available resources of the local state and federal agencies to provide all of these responses to the entire community to the loved ones they lost.

victims

today, so let's get back to work, we will continue to keep you all updated as we have more information, thank you all so much, we will let you know when the next update will be shortly, thank you. you thank you