Victim of Cincinnati pulling hope to "make a difference in the future"

One of the victims of the Cincinnati downtown bank shootings is "thankful" to all who helped her and thinks about how she could make a difference in the future, she said in a statement.

Whitney Austin was on the phone and was unaware of this commotion when she entered the lobby of the fifth bank in the third center, where she suffered "multiple gunshot wounds" on Thursday afternoon, the statement said.

Austin is "particularly grateful" to the two officers who "came out of the line of fire after firing," the statement said. She was taken to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center where she was registered in a stable state.

"I always treat yesterday's events, the impact for the victims, for me and for the community. And I'm thinking of how I can make a difference in the future, "she said in a statement Friday morning. "I am very grateful to the paramedics and first responders, as well as to the doctors, nurses and medical UC staff."

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Her 12-year-old husband, Waller Austin, said in the statement that Whitney is a fighter and is in a good mood.

Whitney Austin, Senior Product Manager for Digital Lending at Fifth Third Bank and mother of two children aged 5 and 7, said in the statement that her family was "overwhelmed by the support of her colleagues, aliens."

The incident surveillance video released Friday shows 29-year-old Omar Perez crossing the bank lobby with a 9-mm Taurus semi-automatic handgun aimed forward. He can be seen "shooting at someone he sees," said Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac at a press conference on Friday.

The shooting lasted about 4 minutes 28 seconds between the time he fired his first round and the one when he was shot by officers. In the video, he can be seen near the security turnstiles as police officers start shooting at him through the window. Moments later, he seems to see agents approaching and turning to run, but he is propelled forward after being shot. Four officers shot a total of 11 rounds in Perez, but it remains to be seen how many times he has been hit.

During the shooting, Perez fired 35 rounds and had about 200 more rounds in the briefcase he was carrying, Isaac said. Investigators have not yet determined the motive for the shooting, but the police think that he may have been slowly headed to the federal courthouse.