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The police registration has been cleared, shoppers have returned to Kroger, but Louisville is still suffering and is still looking for answers to such senseless abuse.

Much has happened since last week's shootout that killed two African Americans in Jeffersontown Kroger, including a massacre at a Pittsburg synagogue that cost eleven lives.

Here are the latest updates on the Kroger shoot in Louisville.

Police call Kroger to commit hate crime

Jeffersontown Police Chief Sam Rogers told the congregation of the first Baptist Church on Sunday that the shooting was motivated by racism. He called it "the elephant in the room that some do not want to recognize in this case" and said it had to be addressed in the context of a broader dialogue.

"I will not stay here and pretend that none of us knows what could have happened if this evil man had entered the gates of this church," said Rogers, pointing out that the alleged gunman allegedly told a man "Whites do not kill whites" before his capture.

Jeffersontown Mayor Bill Dieruf issued a similar note.

"I want you all to realize that, yes, we have a racial problem, yes, it is real," he said, pointing out that his city should not be defined by acts of violence. a single person. "It's up to us to solve the problem of racism."

Gregory Bush, the alleged gunman, attempted to enter the predominantly African-American church 10 to 15 minutes before the shooting, police said.

Related: As details appear, questions revolve around Kroger's motive for shooting

Police are looking for evidence in the Kroger parking lot in Jeffersontown after two people were fatally wounded on Wednesday afternoon. October 24, 2018

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Police are looking for evidence in the Kroger parking lot in Jeffersontown after two people were fatally wounded on Wednesday afternoon. October 24, 2018

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Employees crowded the Kroger in Jeffersontown on Thursday afternoon after a shootout in which several people were injured. October 24, 2018

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Police are looking for evidence in the Kroger parking lot in Jeffersontown after two people were fatally wounded on Wednesday afternoon. October 24, 2018

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A car in Kroger's car park appears to have been hit by a bullet in the window on the passenger side. October 24, 2018

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Police spotted evidence on a Jeffersontown's Kroger parking lot on Thursday afternoon after a shootout in which several people were injured. Police reported that two people had been killed. October 24, 2018

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A police officer passes by a firearm lying on the ground in front of a Jeffersontown Kroger on Wednesday afternoon after a shootout stating "multiple injuries" has been reported. A body was observed on the parking lot. The police then announced that two people had died. October 24, 2018
A police officer walks near a gun on the ground at Kroger in Jeffersontown. October 24, 2018

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Police and Kroger shots in Jeffersontown after two people were shot. One in the parking and one in the store. October 24, 2018

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Two people kiss Kroger's car park after two people were shot dead on Wednesday afternoon. October 24, 2018

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Police and Kroger shots in Jeffersontown after two people were shot. One in the parking and one in the store. October 24, 2018

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Police and Kroger shots in Jeffersontown after two people were shot. One in the parking and one in the store. October 24, 2018

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Police and Kroger shots in Jeffersontown after two people were shot. One in the parking and one in the store. October 24, 2018

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A gun rests on the ground in front of a Jeffersontown Kroger on Wednesday afternoon, after a shootout stating "multiple injuries" has been reported. A body was observed on the parking lot. October 24, 2018

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Eric Deacon, who was in Kroger during the shooting, hugged a woman during the shooting at Kroger, near Hurstbourne and Taylorsville Road. October 24, 2018

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Bullets are lined up at the Jeffersontown Kroger parking lot after Wednesday's shooting. October 24, 2018

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A body lies on the ground behind this barrier in the Kroger car park. October 24, 2018

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A woman looks away as she stands near a police officer as cartridges of bullets rest on a parking lot of a Jeffersontown Kroger on Thursday afternoon, after a shooting causing several injuries. Police say two people were killed. October 24, 2018

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A Kroger shootout near Hurstbourne and Taylorsville Rd. Leaves two people dead and in custody. October 24, 2018

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A Kroger shootout near Hurstbourne and Taylorsville Rd. Leaves two people dead and in custody. October 24, 2018

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A shootout would have occurred Wednesday afternoon at Jeffersontown Kroger.

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A Kroger shootout near Hurstbourne and Taylorsville Rd. Leaves two people dead and in custody. October 24, 2018

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Large police presence in Kroger on Taylorsville Road, where MetroSafe reported a shooting.

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Bullets are lined up in Kroger's parking lot. October 24, 2018

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A body rests on the ground outside the Jefferson Kroger.

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Black Lives Matter challenges public servants

Kroger's shooting was followed by a mass shootout Saturday at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. The alleged gunman, identified as Robert Bowers, killed 11 people.

Shortly after the shooting, the Pittsburgh Public Security Director told reporters that the incident was being investigated for hate crime. This was not the case in Louisville.

The black leaders of Louisville were the subject of criticism Sunday because some of the most prominent politicians in the city and state have not decried any racial motivations.

"It was also an act of terrorism," said Truman Harris with Black Lives Matter Group of Louisville. "It's ridiculous that Mayor Fischer, Matt Bevin, whom Mitch McConnell take for as long as they recognize him.If this person was a black or brown terrorist, he would have been recognized on the spot."

US lawyer Russell Coleman said last week that federal investigators "look at this issue from the perspective of federal criminal law, which includes potential human rights violations such as hate crimes."

Read more: GOP mayoral candidate Angela Leet said Kroger's shooting was a hate crime

See also: "Americans die" because authorities act helplessly over gun reform, says Fischer

Reverend Kevin Nelson leads the congregation in prayer at the first Jeffersontown Baptist Church on Sunday morning. October 28, 2018

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Jason Porter kisses Jody Charleston Sunday morning at the First Baptist Church in Jeffersontown. October 28, 2018

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Members of the first Jeffersontown Baptist Church hold hands during a Sunday morning prayer. October 28, 2018

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Deborah Thompson travels with the choral music Sunday morning at the First Baptist Church in Jeffersontown. October 28, 2018

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Jeffersontown Police Chief Sam Rogers spoke with the congregation on Sunday morning at the first Jeffersontown Baptist Church. October 28, 2018

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Members of the first Jeffersontown Baptist Church hold hands during a Sunday morning prayer. October 28, 2018

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Jeffersontown Mayor Bill Dieruf addresses the congregation on Sunday morning at the first Jeffersontown Baptist Church. October 28, 2018

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The choir performs Sunday morning at the first Jeffersontown Baptist Church. October 28, 2018

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Reverend Kevin Nelson addresses the congregation in prayer at the first Jeffersontown Baptist Church on Sunday morning. October 28, 2018

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The choir performs Sunday morning at the first Jeffersontown Baptist Church. October 28, 2018

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Church members move with the music of the choir Sunday morning at the first Jeffersontown Baptist Church. October 28, 2018

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The choir performs Sunday morning at the first Jeffersontown Baptist Church. October 28, 2018

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Reverend Kevin Nelson leads the congregation in prayer at the first Jeffersontown Baptist Church on Sunday morning. October 28, 2018

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The choir performs Sunday morning at the first Jeffersontown Baptist Church. October 28, 2018

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Gregory Bush still on a loan of one million dollars

Currently, Bush, the alleged 51-year-old gunman, is still in Metro Corrections with a $ 5 million bail. He is scheduled to appear in court on November 5.

Court records show that Bush has a history of mental health problems and violence, and at least one case where he used a racial insult.

In 2001, the ex-Bush woman, who is black, applied for an emergency protection order against Bush after he allegedly threatened her and had twice called a "bitch (of N-word)". A judge banned Bush from having or buying firearms as part of this order, which was in effect for three years.

And in a spousal abuse case involving his father in 2009, a judge ordered Bush to surrender his weapons and undergo mental health treatments.

Bush's father sought urgent protection from the courts after saying that Bush had lifted his mother from the ground and hit her jaw. He had threatened to shoot at his parents, with whom he was living, in the days leading up to the January 2009 aggression.

In court proceedings, Bush identified himself as suffering from schizoaffective disorder and his ex-wife also identified him in a different record as paranoid.

Read it: Tears turned to anger for Kroger's shooting victim's family

TO CLOSE

Thomas Novelly, journalist at the Courier Journal, tells a chronology of events.
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"You have to sing tears a few days"

On Sunday, at St. Bartholomew's Church in Buechel and at the Church of the Living God of Russell, the faithful mourned the deaths of Maurice Stallard, 69, and Vickie Lee Jones, 67 years.

They tried to ask themselves tough questions about why two members of their flock would be killed in a senseless act of violence.

After various Bible readings, Reverend Nick Brown of Buechel said that no one had answered the burning question: "Why do bad things happen?"

"The difficult answer to this question is, of course, that God really chose not to give us an answer," Brown said. "There is no answer in our scriptures or in our teachings of the church. There is no answer to the question of why bad things happen, we just know it happens. "

Patricia Fulce-Smith, the pastor's wife of the Church of God living in Russell, and two other women sang "God wants to heal you wherever you are hurt".

Fulce-Smith hesitated, stifling.

"You must sing tears for a few days," she said.

Read more: "Why bad things happen?": Services seek answers to Kroger's tragedy

Carrie Morgenson, left, and her daughter Emma and son Ryan pray in front of the Jeffersontown Stony Brook Kroger after a fatal shootout caused two deaths on October 25, 2018. Morgenson said his sister was working at Kroger and that his mother was inside yesterday during the shooting. . "I'm glad they could have a day off today to treat," she said.

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Carrie Morgenson, left, and her daughter Emma and son Ryan pray in front of the Jeffersontown Stony Brook Kroger after a fatal shootout caused two deaths on October 25, 2018. Morgenson said his sister was working at Kroger and that his mother was inside yesterday during the shooting. . "I'm glad they could have a day off today to treat," she said.

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Security Officer Ali Mahmood blocks the entrance to Stony Brook Kroger, a neighborhood of Jeffersontown, next to flowers to pay tribute to the victims of the deadly shooting that killed two people yesterday, October 25, 2018.

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Alex adds bouquets of flowers from his colleagues at the Kaden Tower to a growing memorial to pay tribute to the victims of a deadly shootout that killed two people yesterday, October 25, 2018.

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The flowers left to honor the victims outside Jeffersontown Stony Brook Kroger after a fatal shootout that killed two people on October 25, 2018.

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Alex adds bouquets of flowers from his colleagues at the Kaden Tower to a growing memorial to pay tribute to the victims of a deadly shootout that killed two people yesterday, October 25, 2018.

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Carrie Morgenson, left, and her daughter Emma and son Ryan pray in front of the Jeffersontown Stony Brook Kroger after a fatal shootout caused two deaths on October 25, 2018. Morgenson said his sister was working at Kroger and that his mother was inside yesterday during the shooting. . "I'm glad they could have a day off today to treat," she said.

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Security Officer Ali Mahmood blocks the entrance to Stony Brook Kroger, a neighborhood of Jeffersontown, next to flowers to pay tribute to the victims of the deadly shooting that killed two people yesterday, October 25, 2018.

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The flowers left to honor the victims outside Jeffersontown Stony Brook Kroger after a fatal shootout that killed two people on October 25, 2018.

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The flowers left to honor the victims outside Jeffersontown Stony Brook Kroger after a fatal shootout that killed two people on October 25, 2018.

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Security Officer Ali Mahmood blocks the entrance to Stony Brook Kroger, a neighborhood of Jeffersontown, next to flowers to pay tribute to the victims of the deadly shooting that killed two people yesterday, October 25, 2018.

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The flowers left to honor the victims outside Jeffersontown Stony Brook Kroger after a fatal shootout that killed two people on October 25, 2018.

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Carrie Morgenson, left, and her daughter Emma and son Ryan pray in front of the Jeffersontown Stony Brook Kroger after a fatal shootout caused two deaths on October 25, 2018. Morgenson said his sister was working at Kroger and that his mother was inside yesterday during the shooting. . "I'm glad they could have a day off today to treat," she said.

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Candidate for mayor calls this incident a hate crime

Louisville mayoral candidate Angela Leet said Sunday that she thought Jeffersontown Kroger's shooting, which left a black woman and a dead man, was a hate crime.

"I think it's important not to politicize that, to keep a human view of that," Leet told the Courier Journal. "We must denounce hate in all its forms, of every human being."

Leet is one of the first Kentucky Republicans to assert that the shootings were motivated by the race of the victims.

But when asked what legislative solutions existed for hate-based violence, she replied that there was no "simple solution" and emphasized the return to family and cultural values. a community "centered on God".

Majority leaders in the Senate, McConnell and Bevin, made statements of mourning for the victims but did not comment on the possible racist motivations for the shooting.

US Representative John Yarmuth described the hate crime incident and said Saturday on social networks that "hatred should not have a place in America".

To find out more about the coverage by The Courier Journal of Kroger's shooting in Louisville:

After Kroger's shooting, Bevin rips violent comment on Democrats' FB page

Kroger, victim of the shooting, was killed while he was standing next to his grandson

US Representative John Yarmuth said the Louisville Kroger shooting was a hate crime

Louisville Kroger's shooting adds to public violence

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