that s it for us tonight i ll be back tomorrow night, don lemon starts right now. we re going to get straight to the breaking news. this is don lemon tonight, it just keeps happening, this is our breaking news at this hour, there s a deadly mass shooting in tulsa, oklahoma, police say four people were killed, the gunman also dead, police believe of a self-inflicted gun-shot wound. there may be up to ten people wounded. another one. another mass shooting. you can see police in the distance running towards the scene with guns drawn, emergency vehicles racing as other officers take long guns out of their trunks. police say that they were on the scene within three minutes of the first call arriving while the shooting was still going on. the officers that did arrive were hearing shots in the building and that s what directed them to the second floor. so the president of the united states joe biden has been briefed on the shoot and the act is though america is living in fear
that s right. and this latest tragedy just overnight comes as the country is deeply still mourning the 19 children and 2 teachers killed just last week at that elementary school in uvalde, texas. and the ten lives lost at a supermarket in buffalo, new york, just 18 days ago. this morning we have brand-new details about the investigation into the shooting at uvalde, and the mayor there saying the negotiator tried to talk to the gunman during the massacre. also, the governor of texas is now calling for a special legislative committee to address the shooting. what will that really mean? let s begin this morning with that new mass shooting in tulsa, oklahoma. our correspondent lucy kafanov is near the st. francis hospital campus where that shooting took place. you literally went from one mass shooting in uvalde, to the next, in tulsa. we just learned more information about the weapon used here. reporter: that s right, poppy. the victims haven t all been laid to rest in uvalde
very good thursday morning to you. i m jim sciutto. i m poppy harlow. we re following several major stories this morning including the nation s 233rd mass shooting just this year. more shootings than days in the year so far. this time, in a hospital in tulsa, oklahoma. at least four people were killed yesterday when a gunman carrying a handgun and a rifle opened fire inside of the facility. officials say the shooter is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. this is not normal. shootings in numbers like this are unique to this country. the data shows it. officials describe the gunman in this latest mass murder as a black male between the ages of 35 and 40. investigators still working on determining the motive, but believe the shooter was targeting a specific individual at the hospital. this is not a random event. it s not as if he went to hospital and was indiscriminately shooting at people. he very purposefully went to this location, went to a very specific floor and
multiple people at this hour had been shot. we can report that four people have been killed. in addition to those four, people the gavitt himself is also reportedly dead. . they did just identify the suspect, it is red as a black will around the ages of 35 to 40. they say he just before we got to the air here is a part of it we were hearing shots in the building right now we have four civilians and avoid shooter that is dead. officers have not been interviewed but we are certain that is a self inflicted gunshot wound. . i don t have to remind you that this incident comes just eight days after the horrific mass shooting in eovaldi texas. it killed 19 children as well as two adults. that shooting in texas, that came ten days after another mass shooter killed ten people at a grocery store in buffalo, new york. as a country, we can no longer move on from this topic. this room cannot heal. each week there comes a new horrific event. more lives lost more communities ripped apart
the country. yes, the majority vote democrat. but in 2020, there was an enormous shift to the republican party. the future of our democracy in the ballots, i wanted to find out what s fueling that rightward shift in latino communities across the. country so we ll have a conversation about all these things straight ahead. but first, this field report from florida. thank you. as you can imagine, politics is a total blood sport. the reason i m a republican is those are my values. i think that s resonating with others experiences as well. how many of you voted for trump in 2020? i m scared to say that i voted for trump. but i also voted for obama. the biggest misconception is that latinos are supposed to be democrats. we just won the capital. my first language is spanish. i m definitely not a white supremacist. i had a right to be there and protest. [speaking spanish] he s the best damn president in u.s. history. to believe that the 20 traction election w