LOUISVILLE — The next 24 hours will be “critical” for shooting victims who needed surgery after being injured in a Louisville mass shooting Monday, according to UofL Health’s chief medical officer, Dr. Jason Smith.

Of the nine patients sent to UofL Hospital Monday, Smith said, three were in critical condition as of around 3:30 p.m. Monday.

Three have been released, he said, and three are still in the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

“The three that are in critical condition did require operative care from our trauma team and our emergency department services,” Smith said.

His team treated five gunshot wounds from the mass shooting scene, he said.

When Smith spoke Monday afternoon, no one brought into the hospital injured had died.

He praised police and emergency responders, saying “they saved lives today.”

He also thanked the hospital nurses and physicians.

“They were able to care for a large number of people coming in severely injured in a very short period of time,” Smith said. “We were able to get them to the services they need.”

In addition to the nine injured, five were killed in the shooting at Old National Bank, including the shooter, who was a bank employee. Those killed by the shooter are, according to Louisville Police:

• Joshua Barrick, 40

• Thomas Elliot, 63

• Juliana Farmer, 45

• James Tutt, 64

None of the patients who required surgery were awake yet when Smith gave the Monday afternoon update, alongside Gov. Andy Beshear, Mayor Craig Greenberg and Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel.

“Really the next 24 hours for all involved in this who required an operation are going to be the critical time period for us to understand really how well they’re going to recover from this acute part of their overall care,” Smith said. “They’ve got long roads ahead of them, but if we can get through 24 hours then we will take another 24 hours and we will keep doing that until they get out of the hospital.”