LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- As Louisville police work to solve a string of weekend homicides, community members are expressing their frustration over the amount violence in the city.

There were at least five separate shootings over the weekend in Louisville, and four people were killed. According to data from the Louisville Metro Police Department, there have been 25 homicides this year in the city. Last year at this time, there had been 28.

LMPD is looking for witnesses to a shooting at Cafe 360 on Bardstown Road that killed 21-year-old Theodore Brown on Sunday. There were also three double shootings happened on Saturday morning. The first was on South 4th Street downtown about 7 a.m., when a man was killed and a woman injured.

The Jefferson County Coroner's Office has now identified the man shot and killed as 24-year-old Larry Walker.

About the same time on Saturday, two people were shot off Noe Way in the Bon Air neighborhood. A woman, identified by the coroner's office as 21-year-old Daryasia Wingo, died at the scene. A man was taken to the hospital with critical injuries.

Hours later in the same area, a man was found shot near Farnsley Park around 1:30 p.m. He is expected to survive.

Then, on Saturday night, one man was killed and another sent to the hospital in a double shooting hear Huston Quin Park in the Wilder Park neighborhood.

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Five shootings in Louisville, Ky. over the weekend killed four people. The WDRB map shows where the shootings happened. March 4, 2024

"It's not OK. It's not OK, all the violence that's going on," said Laura Sanchez, who lives in the Bon Air neighborhood not far from where one of the shootings happened Saturday morning. "It just seems like there's a lot of discord and anger. Something needs to be done."

Sanchez said when the shooting happened that morning, she could see flashing lights shine through her windows as first responders started arriving to the scene. 

"Police vehicles, ambulances, fire trucks, it was a full on," she said. "All the flashers going, you knew something was going on."

Sanchez said it's not the first time something like this has happened nearby. 

"Before, you'd hear somebody got shot, and that's not a good thing," she said. "But now, it's like a normal occurrence. It's part of our everyday lives where you hear that, and it's even worse that it happened right here, next door."

Earl Morgan, who's lived in the area for decades and had children grow up playing in the neighborhood, said things have changed.

"I wouldn't trust any kids out here at all by themselves," he said.

After a shooting last year, Sanchez said she installed security cameras around her home, and many other neighbors have done the same. Recently, after asking someone to not walk across her property, she said the response she got was threatening and she ended up calling police.

"He even asked me, 'Do you want to die, lady?'"

Sanchez said shootings like the one over the weekend make her think twice — especially at night.

"It almost makes me feel like I'm a captive in my home, because I might not go out as much as what I normally would," she said. "I don't know what the solution looks like but I know it has to be addressed."

She said she'd like to see that people are aware of resources in the city and see action toward positive change.

"It just seems like there's so much anger right now," Sanchez said. "I don't know if it's anger or fear or frustration. Something needs to be done. I don't know what kind of resources are in the city. I don't know if people know how to get to those resources, that if they need help there is help, just a lot of questions."

Anyone with information in any crime is asked to call LMPD's anonymous tip line at 502-574-5673. Tips can also be submitted anonymously through the department's crime tip portal by clicking here.

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