(WARNING: 21+) Officials with the Louisville Metro Police Department released new details Tuesday about the fatal #shooting of a man by an LMPD officer Monday afternoon, including the name of the officer who fired his weapon. That officer has been identified as Officer Michael Johnson of LMPD's First Division. The incident took place shortly after noon on Monday outside a parking garage near the intersection of Gray Street and Floyd streets. According to Lt. Ted Eidem of LMPD's Public Integrity Unit, an officer with the Heritage Creek Police Department was working off duty at the Dosker Manor housing complex at the 400 block of East Muhammad Ali Boulevard. While there, that officer spoke with security employees who said they had been having trouble with a man who had been threatening residents, saying he had a gun and using racial epithets. (Read the full story.)

Shocking footage reveals #coronavirus patients being treated in corridors at #NYC hospital as doctors beg for ventilators and the death toll in the city surges past 1,000. New York state recorded 76,049 confirmed coronavirus cases by the end of Tuesday and 1,550 people have died from the killer disease. In New York City alone, there have been 1,096 deaths and 43,119 cases - with 182 more deaths in the last day. Among its overwhelmed hospitals is the Brookdale Hospital Medical Center in Brooklyn where patients line the hallways in their beds and doctors are struggling to keep up with their needs. The 370-bed hospital has already reached full capacity. One desperate doctor told CBS2 that the hospital had become a 'medical warzone'.

The US Surgeon General said on Wednesday that 30 days of social distancing would be long enough to slow the spread of coronavirus in some places but not everywhere. In an interview on Good Morning America, Surgeon General Jerome Adams also warned the public not to use precious N-95 surgical masks in light of an update by the CDC that it is considering advising that everyone should wear a face covering when they go out. 'The original 15 days was designed to slow the spread and for us to have some time to reassess. 'We learned good and bad things. No state has been spared, but when you look at places like Washington and California that aggressively mitigated with social distancing, they were able to flatten their curve.

The UK recorded another 563 coronavirus deaths today, making it the worst day so far in the devastating COVID-19 crisis. The increase takes the country's total death toll to 2,352 - today's surge is 48 per cent larger than yesterday's increase of 381 fatalities and pushes the total up by 31 per cent in a day. And 29,474 people have now tested positive for COVID-19. The UK is the fifth hardest-hit nation in Europe and eighth in the world. Wales today recorded 29 new deaths caused by the coronavirus along with a further 16 fatalities in Scotland and two in Northern Ireland. 486 victims were declared in England and 11 remain unaccounted for. The youngest patient announced today was a 13-year-old, believed to be Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab from Brixton, London, whose tragic death came to light last night after he died at King's College Hospital on Monday. The oldest patient included in today's update was 99 years old.