Nashville shooting

The suspect is dead after a confrontation with police. The shooting occurred Monday at The Covenant School.

“My heart goes out to the families of the victims. The Covenant School was founded as a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church in 2001, according to the school’s website. “I have also visited the church in the past. “In a tragic morning, Nashville joined the dreaded, long list of communities to experience a school shooting,” Nashville Mayor John Cooper tweeted, thanking first responders and medical professionals. Police said the shooter was a 28-year-old woman from Nashville, after initially saying she appeared to be in her teens. “In a tragic morning, Nashville joined the dreaded, long list of communities to experience a school shooting,” Mayor John Cooper wrote on Twitter.

Nashville police said an "active shooter event" had occurred at the Covenant School and that the shooter was dead. A hospital said three children and two ...

As a parent, I both ache for them and rage with them that fear of this kind of tragedy is just accepted as just part of what it means to raise kids these days." I have also visited the church in the past. On a regular day there would be about 209 students and 42 staff members at the school, Aaron said. Nashville Police Chief John Drake said the parents of the children who were killed have been notified. Aaron said he was not aware of any other gunshot victims from the shooting. [The shooting](https://wpln.org/post/law-enforcement-investigating-suspected-shooting-at-green-hills-school/) occurred at Covenant School, a private religious school in Nashville.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities say they believe the 28-year-old female shooter who killed three children ...

The Covenant School was founded as a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church in 2001, according to the school’s website. [Nashville Waffle House in April 2018.](https://apnews.com/article/nashville-travis-reinking-6839ec09d4c4a743bc5c31c54b918290) He was sentenced in February 2022 to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. The gunman was sentenced in 2019 to life in prison without the possibility of parole. “I have also visited the church in the past. “My heart goes out to the families of the victims. (AP) — Authorities say they believe the 28-year-old female shooter who killed three children and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville was a former student. The suspect — who was wielding two “assault-style” rifles and a pistol — also died after being shot by police. Two officers from a five-member team opened fire in response, fatally shooting the suspect at 10:27 a.m., Aaron said. And our children deserve better,” she said during a National League of Cities conference in Washington. Police said the shooter was armed with two “assault-type” rifles and a pistol. The killings come as communities around the nation are reeling from a spate of school violence. The female suspect was killed by police during a confrontation.

The suspected shooter has been identified as a 28-year-old from Nashville, authorities said.

Responding officers saw the shooter firing on the second level, and at that point, they "engaged" her, Aaron said. Nashville Police Chief John Drake said at a news conference that the shooting was a targeted attack. "We know and believe that entry was gained by shooting through one of the doors, is how they actually got into the school."

Nashville police say the shooter was a 28-year-old who may have been a former student.

"It is ripping at our communities apart, and ripping at the very soul of this nation." You can also get in touch in the following ways: Are you in the area? In the hours that followed the shooting, parents gathered at a nearby church to be reunited with their children. Please include your name, age and location with any submission. "Our entire city stands with you." One officer was injured by broken glass during the operation. "These are conversations we shouldn't be having," she added. In a statement, Nashville Mayor John Cooper said the city had "joined the dreaded, long list of communities to experience a school shooting". A search of a nearby parked car had led officers to "firmly believe" that Hale was a former student of the school. Police have spoken with the attacker's father during a search of a nearby home that is listed as the shooter's address. Six people have been killed in a school shooting in the US city of Nashville, Tennessee.

Six people, including three children, were killed in a mass shooting at a Tennessee elementary school. Israel's prime minister delays his controversial ...

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Metro Nashville Police Department officers walk outside of Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, in Nashville, Tenn. Monday, March 27, 2023. John Amis ...

As we continue to respond, please join us in praying for the school, congregation & Nashville community." We will continue to reinforce our safety protocols and monitor and follow best practices on keeping students safe from harm." "We were on scene to help them mitigate anyone from seeing exactly what else was going on," fire department spokesperson Kendra Loney said. Bill Lee said: "I am closely monitoring the tragic situation at Covenant. The chief said the families of all six victims had been notified. She had two "assault-type rifles and a handgun," according to the official. All doors were locked, to our understanding, and how exactly she got in, at this point, is still under investigation," Drake said. Five police officers came upon the shooter, and two opened fire, Aaron said. When the officers got to the second level, they saw a shooter, a female, who was firing. They immediately went to the gunfire. The officers engaged her. "By 10:27 the shooter was deceased," Aaron said.

A female shooter who appeared to be a teenager fatally shot three students and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville, before she was shot ...

“In a tragic morning, Nashville joined the dreaded, long list of communities to experience a school shooting. My heart goes out to the families of the victims. I saw a policeman run to the scene and then after a few minutes kids were already crossing,” Reodica said. She later spoke to her mother on the phone and learned she was safe. Jozen Reodica, who works at Shearwater Health across the street from the school, took video of police escorting students out of the school on Monday. “They (police) started to close down the roads. A vehicle was located nearby and gave clues as to the suspect’s identity, he added. On a typical day it has 209 students and 40 to 50 staff members, Aaron said. The shooter, who was not identified, entered the Covenant School via a side door and was armed with at least two assault-style rifles and a handgun, said Metro Nashville Police spokesperson Don Aaron. Last week, two faculty members were shot and wounded by a student at a The first call on the shooting came in at 10:13 a.m. Police are working to analyze video from the school showing the incident, he added.

The suspect, who was killed by police, is believed to be a former student at The Covenant School in Nashville, where the shooting took place. The shooter was ...

They lamented the national cycle of violent and deadly shootings, at one point reciting together, “we confess we have not done enough to protect” the children injured or killed in shootings. “We need to remember. The shooter was armed with two “assault-style” weapons as well as a handgun, authorities said. Just last week alone, for example, school shootings happened in Denver and the Dallas-area within two days of each other. At Belmont United Methodist Church, teary sniffling filled the background as vigil attendees sang, knelt in prayer and lit candles. In all of them, the shooters were males. “And right now, it’s real.” “We have a map drawn out of how this was all going to take place.” Jozen Reodica heard the police sirens and fire trucks blaring from outside her office building nearby. “The children … The victims included three 9-year-old children, the school’s top administrator, a substitute teacher and a custodian. After the news conference, police spokesperson Don Aaron declined to elaborate on how Hale currently identified.

The three children shot and killed were each nine years old, and the three adults killed all worked at the school, police said.

Officers entered the first story of the school building and began to clear it when they heard gunfire on the second level, said Don Aaron, a spokesperson for Metropolitan Nashville Police Department. Officials established a reunification center nearby where students inside the school were transported in the aftermath of the shooting. Authorities believe that two of the weapons may have been obtained legally and locally, according to the police chief. We know and believe that entry was gained by shooting through one of the doors, is how they actually got into the school," Drake said. "We've also determined there were maps drawn of the school in detail of surveillance, entry points, etc. The suspected shooter was fatally shot by police at Covenant School in the city's Green Hills neighborhood, authorities said.

Police identifies the assailant as a former student in what appeared to be an orchestrated attack of six children and staffers.

Armed teachers are a 100% effective deterrent!" "When will we start to have conversations about real solutions for hardening schools & protecting kids? He also told NBC that investigators had learned Hale might have had "some resentment to having to go to that school -- I don't have all the details of that just yet -- and that's why this incident occurred." President Joe Biden described the latest shooting as "sick" and said gun violence was tearing the nation's "soul," as he urged Congress to pass a ban on the assault weapons often used in mass shootings. There was confusion surrounding the suspect's gender identity, with officials using "she" and "her" to refer to them, while a LinkedIn profile appeared to identify Hale as a man. Hale left behind a manifesto, had maps of the school detailing surveillance and entry-exit points, and was "prepared for a confrontation with law enforcement," the police chief told reporters following the latest outburst of gun violence to stun the United States.

The shooter, identified as 28-year-old Audrey Hale, was shot and killed by police during the Monday attack, leaving behind “drawn out” maps of the Covenant ...

We are focused on loving our students, our families, our faculty and staff and beginning the process of healing,” Covenant school said in a statement obtained by CNN affiliate We are grieving tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our school and church. At 10:13 a.m., police got a call of an active shooter inside Covenant school and rushed to the scene. We ask for privacy as our community grapples with this terrible tragedy – for our students, parents, faculty and staff,” the statement continued. Video showed the children holding hands and walking in a line out of the school, where there were community members embracing. Police have referred to Hale as the “female shooter” and at an evening press conference added that Hale was transgender. But experience has taught us that we need to be prepared because in this day and time it is the reality of where we are,” Nashville Metropolitan Councilman Russ Pulley told CNN. A search warrant executed at Hale’s home also resulted in the seizure of a sawed-off shotgun, a second shotgun and other evidence, according to police. “I was hoping this day would never ever come here in the city. With six victims, the shooting at Covenant is the deadliest school shooting since the attack in Uvalde, Texas, last May left 21 people dead. Investigators were expected to spend Tuesday processing the scene and gathering more details about what happened during the roughly 14 minutes of terror at the elementary school. The video goes on to show the suspect walking through the hallways, pointing an assault style weapon.

Three children and three adults have been killed in by an ex-student at a school in Nashville.

"It is ripping our communities apart, and ripping at the very soul of this nation." You can also get in touch in the following ways: Are you in the area? The mother of one pupil said her son had been left traumatised. Please include your name, age and location with any submission. "These are conversations we shouldn't be having," she added. A search of their home led to officers seizing more firearms. In a search of the shooter's home, more weapons were recovered, in addition to the ones used in the attack, including a sawed-off shotgun and a second shotgun. A search of a nearby parked car led officers to "firmly believe" that Hale was a former student of the school, said police. Nashville Police Chief John Drake said investigators there found a manifesto and "a map of how all of this was going to play out", including entry and exit points at the school building. The suspect drove to the school and got in by firing through one of the school doors, which were all locked. Three children and three adults have been killed in a shooting by an ex-student at a school in the US city of Nashville, Tennessee.

The three children, all aged nine, have been named as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney. The three employees killed were Cynthia Peak, 61, ...

Her sister, who is two years older, cried during the service according to the "She did so much for those kids," said the mother, who has two children enrolled at Covenant. "She did everything to help them when families couldn't afford things, it didn't matter. Cynthia Peak was a substitute teacher working at the school on the day of the attack, police said. She found ways for them to stay." Katherine Koonce was the head of school at Covenant, and one parent told BBC News she was a "saint".

They sang and prayed with the roughly 200 elementary students and 40 or 50 staff at the Presbyterian Church in America school and listened as pastor Matthew ...

Neil Spence of the Nashville Presbytery of the PCA called for lament “in the face of unbearable grief and trial.” He said, “Words fail us in speaking of this tragedy even to one another, but our prayers will not fail us in lifting our pleas to God for mercy and the grace that is needed. “We’re about to enter Holy Week, and it’s going to be a different kind of Holy Week for sure,” said Parker, thinking to what he’ll preach on Sunday—Palm Sunday—in the room where parents feared their kids were gone, where teachers learned that their students and colleagues were killed. The Nashville shooting is the deadliest attack on a school since 21 students were killed in Uvalde, Texas, last May. In the hours after the shooting, leaders and ministries offered prayers; churches and schools scheduled vigils. He prayed for peace, asking God for the safety of each child whose parents anxiously sat in his pews—or cried on the floor. The children gathered in the fellowship hall, where the student minister handed out coloring sheets and began processing the shooting with them. At Woodmont Baptist, not long after they heard the sirens whir by, pastors and staff read reports of a shooting at Covenant. They sang and prayed with the roughly 200 elementary students and 40 or 50 staff at the Presbyterian Church in America school and listened as pastor Matthew Sullivan “raises it to another level,” as one student [put it](https://vimeo.com/781123721), with his kid-friendly Bible lesson. They shot and killed the suspect, whom they later identified as a transgender person. They arrived less than 15 minutes later and followed the sounds of gunfire to the second floor of the private Christian elementary school. Police identified them as Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney, and Hallie Scruggs, the daughter of Covenant Presbyterian Church senior pastor Chad Scruggs. A few hours later, though, parents crowded into the sanctuary of Woodmont Baptist Church, two miles down the road, waiting to hear the worst.

A former student wielding two “assault-style” rifles and a handgun killed three students and three adults at a Christian elementary school.

They lamented the national cycle of violent and deadly shootings, at one point reciting together, “we confess we have not done enough to protect” the children injured or killed in shootings. More footage from inside shows the shooter walking through a school corridor holding a gun with a long barrel and walking into a room labeled “church office,” then coming back out. Police later said in a tweet that the shooter fired at arriving officers from a second-story window and had come armed with significant ammunition. Late Monday night, police released approximately two minutes of edited surveillance video showing the shooter’s car driving up to the school from multiple angles, including one in which children can be seen playing on swings in the background. Just last week alone, for example, school shootings happened in Denver and the Dallas-area within two days of each other. We are focused on loving our students, our families, our faculty and staff and beginning the process of healing.” In all of them, the shooters were males. “Our community is heartbroken,” a statement from the school said. “We have a map drawn out of how this was all going to take place.” Police gave unclear information on the gender of the shooter, who police say was fatally shot by two responding officers at the school. “The children … The victims included three 9-year-old children, the school’s top administrator, a substitute teacher and a custodian.

Investigators seeking clues to the latest bout of mass gun violence in the US pored over a "manifesto" and other writings uncovered after three children and ...

Last year saw 303 such incidents, the highest of any year in the database, which goes back to 1970. The school serves preschool through sixth graders and held an active-shooter training program in 2022, local television station WTVF-TV reported. "We have to do more to stop gun violence," Biden said at the White House. The three slain school children, all age 9, were identified as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney. The footage then shows the assailant stalking through a hallway as alarm lights flash. Authorities did not immediately offer a motive for the killings.

A heavily armed former student killed three young children and three staff in what appeared to be a carefully planned attack at a private elementary school ...

"I carry a gun with me most days, but I don't need an assault rifle," he added. She lives nearby and has an eight-year-old who attends a school only two miles down the road from Covenant. Television images showed children holding hands as they left the school. President Joe Biden described the latest shooting as "sick" and said gun violence was "ripping the soul of this nation," as he urged Congress to pass a ban on the assault weapons often used in mass shootings. In an interview with NBC News, Drake said the suspect was likely plotting a broader attack, as the manifesto "indicates that there was going to be shootings at multiple locations, and the school was one of them." The suspect was "prepared for a confrontation with law enforcement," the police chief told reporters following the latest outburst of gun violence in the United States.

The three children, all aged nine, have been named as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney. The three employees killed were Cynthia Peak, 61, ...

Her sister, who is two years older, cried during the service according to the "She did so much for those kids," said the mother, who has two children enrolled at Covenant. "She did everything to help them when families couldn't afford things, it didn't matter. Cynthia Peak was a substitute teacher working at the school on the day of the attack, police said. She found ways for them to stay." Katherine Koonce was the head of school at Covenant, and one parent told BBC News she was a "saint".

How many people were killed? Nashville police said six people, including three students, were killed. The victims were identified as Cynthia Peak, 61; Katherine ...

Police Chief John Drake said officers found writings that detailed the plan to attack the school and potentially other locations. Police said the shooter had made a detailed map of the school and conducted surveillance of the building before carrying out the massacre. Investigators were sent to the shooter’s home shortly after Hale was killed, police said. Police received a call about an active shooter at The Covenant School — a Presbyterian school — around 10:15 a.m. At least two of them were believed to have been obtained legally in the Nashville area, police said. After the news conference, police spokesperson Don Aaron declined to elaborate on how Hale identified.

Authorities released graphic body camera footage showing the fatal confrontation between police and the shooter at the private religious school.

Surveillance footage shows Hale driving to the school in a Honda Fit and then shooting out the glass of a side door in order to enter the building. Graphic body camera footage released Tuesday shows multiple officers sweeping the school, as an alarm blares and gunshots are heard in the distance. At a vigil, Evelyn's sister cried as she said, "I don't want to be an only child." Hale also shot at responding officers through a second-story window, authorities said. Authorities initially identified Hale as a woman, but later clarified that Hale used he/him pronouns. The attacker, who police identified as 28-year-old Audrey Hale of the Nashville area, was a former student of the school.

Audrey Hale, 28, said 'something bad is about to happen' as police accused of lack of urgency after being alerted by suspect's friend.

“We are grieving tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our school and church. [Tennessee](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/tennessee) and our governor had the gall to sign that bill at a Beretta manufacturing plant. We are focused on loving our students, our families, our faculty and staff, and beginning the process of healing.” We have maps that showed the entry point into the school, the weapons that was going to be used, the clothing that she was going to wear, and she had drawn it up almost like a cartoon character. Her family attended a memorial for the victims on Monday night at Woodmont Christian church. The officers, Drake said, “heard gunfire, immediately ran to that, and took care of this horrible situation”. “Overwhelmingly, a majority of gun owners agree we have to do something. The officers who killed Hale on the second floor were named as Rex Engelbert and Michael Collazo. “My heart is with all of the families affected and I’m devastated by what has happened.” The archive defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more people are shot or wounded, not counting any attackers. You’re not allowed to own a machine gun. “Law enforcement knew nothing about the treatment she was receiving but her parents felt she should not own weapons.

A heavily armed assailant fatally shot six people, including three children, at a private elementary school. The motive for the shooting is under ...

The Covenant School is a private school that was founded in 2001 as a ministry of the Covenant Presbyterian Church. The denomination’s report on gender and sexuality, prepared in 2020, refers to “the sinfulness of homosexual and transgender desire as well as conduct.” Chief Drake said the shooter identified as transgender, and officials used “she” and “her” to refer to the attacker. As of Monday evening, the motive was unknown. The assailant was “prepared for a confrontation with law enforcement” and “prepared to do more harm” before being killed, Chief Drake said. The police received a report of the shooting at 10:13 a.m. [identified the shooter](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/27/us/nashville-school-shooting-audrey-hale.html) as Audrey E. A total of 108 people, she added, were transported to the nearby Woodmont Baptist Church, where parents were reunited with their children. Wearing camouflage pants, a black vest and a backward red baseball cap, the shooter walks through rooms and hallways with a weapon drawn. The attack on Monday was the 13th school shooting in the United States this year that resulted in injury or death, according Three students and three adults were fatally shot by a heavily armed attacker on Monday morning at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville, according to the city’s Police Department. The authorities were reviewing writings and had made contact with the shooter’s father, Chief Drake said.

Nashville police released video Tuesday from a body-worn camera that shows a team of officers entering and searching an elementary school, then confronting ...

Next, an interior view shows glass doors to the school being shot out and the shooter ducking through one of the shattered doors. More footage from inside shows the shooter walking through a school corridor holding a gun with a long barrel and walking into a room labeled “church office,” then coming back out. Police later said the shooter fired at arriving officers from a second-story window. At a late afternoon press conference, the police chief said Hale was transgender. Just last week alone, for example, school shootings happened in Denver and the Dallas area within two days of each other. In all of them, the shooters were males. Hale had drawn a detailed map of the school, including potential entry points, and conducted surveillance of the building before carrying out the massacre, Police said a search of Hale’s home turned up a sawed-off shotgun, a second shotgun and other unspecified evidence. “We have a map drawn out of how this was all going to take place.” The new video from Officer Rex Engelbert’s body cam shows a woman greeting police outside as they arrive at The Covenant School on Monday. Officers climb stairs to the second floor and enter a lobby area. The suspect, Audrey Hale, was a former student at the school.

America's latest mass shooting was put to a stop by police officers minutes after they arrived at Nashville's Covenant School. The shooting - which left ...

On US media outlets, police experts have noted that the response in Nashville stands in stark contrast to police actions during the May 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas. There, police say they recovered more weapons, as well as diagrams and other evidence that makes investigators believe the assault was well-planned. Soon after, the woman, who appears to be in communication with staff members inside, notes that "a bunch of kids" are upstairs. The officers then begin jogging down a hall, past a victim on the floor. The two officers have been identified as Rex Engelbert, a four-year veteran of the force, and Michael Collazo, a nine-year veteran. CCTV footage from inside the school depicts what happens next: glass doors shatter in a flurry of gunshots, allowing the heavily armed suspect to enter.

The shooter, who was fatally shot by police, was identified as 28-year-old Audrey Hale from Nashville, authorities said. Authorities released body camera ...

However, police learned that the shooter "had been hiding several weapons within the house," Drake added. "We strongly believe there was going to be some other targets, including maybe family members, and one of the malls here in Nashville," Drake said. Responding officers saw the shooter firing on the second level, and at that point, they "engaged" her, Aaron said. "We have no evidence that individuals were specifically targeted," added Don Aaron, a spokesperson for the MNPD. Among the items found were "several different writings about other locations," in addition to the school, Drake said. Our team and the FBI have been working on this."

'Suspect down!': Bodycam footage shows police confrontation with Nashville school shooter: Live updates ... NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Authorities on Tuesday released ...

Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., whose district includes the site of Monday's mass shooting, received widespread criticism from gun control advocates for a ] [Christmas photo he posted in 2021](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/27/nashville-shooting-congressman-andy-ogles-posed-guns-photo/11552258002/) of his family posing with guns. [told NBC News ](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/nashville-school-shooting-covenant-live-updates-rcna76861)he remembers Hale as a third grader at the school in 2005 and a fourth grader in 2006. The photo, which remained on the congressman's Facebook page as of Monday night, shows his wife and two of his three children smiling and holding firearms in front of a Christmas tree. [Nashville shooting suspect killed by police in 'swift' response] [Nashville police said five officers responded to a 911 call that arrived at 10:13 a.m., and the shooter fired on arriving police vehicles from a second-story window.] [The officers found the shooter on the second floor of the building that houses the school and a Presbyterian church. Koonce earned a bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, according to the school website. The staffers were Katherine Koonce, 60, identified on the ] [Covenant website ](https://www.thecovenantschool.com/faculty-staff/)as "head of school"; substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, 61; and custodian Mike Hill, 61. “We love the Scruggs family and mourn with them over their precious daughter Hallie," Mark Davis, senior pastor at Park Cities Presbyterian Church, said in a statement. In Uvalde, where 19 students and two teachers were killed, it took more than 70 minutes to end the threat.] [QUICK REACTION: ] [14-minute timeline: From the Nashville school shooter's break-in to how police responded](https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2023/03/28/nashville-shooting-covenant-school-police-video/11554333002/) "Audrey, you have so much more life to live," Patton responds in the messages. Body camera footage released Tuesday shows armed Nashville officers swiftly moving from one room to another in the school before confronting Hale. [Police officers lauded for brave, swift action against heavily armed shooter] [In contrast to the painfully delayed police response to the shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas, last year, law enforcement officers in Nashville took quick action Monday, likely saving several lives.] [Five officers from the Metro Nashville Police Department initially descended upon The Covenant School after a call about an active shooter came in at 10:13 a.m., and by 10:27 a.m. "It sounds like it's upstairs," an officer says as they ascend the steps to the sound of gunfire.

A heavily armed assailant fatally shot six people, including three children, at a private elementary school. The 28-year-old assailant was shot dead by ...

The Covenant School is a private school that was founded in 2001 as a ministry of the Covenant Presbyterian Church. The shooter, who the authorities said was a former student at the school, was shot and killed by the police. The dead included a 72-year-old woman who was asleep in bed; a teenage mother and her infant; and a 19-year-old man. Amanda Rosenberger, who said she was a survivor of a shooting on her college campus, spoke to the crowd. The police received a report of the shooting at 10:13 a.m. The assailant was killed about 14 minutes after the shooting was first reported, according to a police spokesman. At one point, an officer on the second floor calls out that “we’ve got one down.” A series of gunshots — close to a dozen total — is heard. The authorities said on Tuesday that the 28-year-old perpetrator had legally purchased seven firearms recently — including the three used in the shooting — and was being treated by a doctor for an emotional disorder. After the police received a first report of the shooting at 10:13 a.m. Officials used “she” and “her” to refer to the shooter, but, according to a social media post and a LinkedIn profile, the shooter appeared to identify as male in recent months. There were additional writings found in the car driven to the school and the family’s home, and officials are also examining a cellphone found in the car. Hill and Evelyn were all dead, as were two other 9-year-old students and a substitute teacher who had been fatally shot in the attack.

Security video from inside Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, captured the shooter who killed six people, including three children, blasting through a ...

Police body camera footage released Tuesday, showed the first officer arriving at the school and being met outside by a school staff member who informed the officer, "The kids are all locked down, but we have two kids that we don't know where they are." And the mitigation comes back to the training from people knowing what to do." "From what I've been told, both of those things occurred based on where students and teachers were in relation to the threat." Other video clips released by authorities captured the suspect firing several times at the glass doors on the side of the building. The suspect, identified as 28-year-old Audrey Hale, was fatally shot by police officers on the second floor of the building, next to a broken window where the suspect allegedly fired at the patrol cars as they arrived at the scene. In the wake of recent school shootings, access to campuses and the role

Law enforcement said today the shooter bought seven guns legally, three of which were used in the murders. And Nashville police released new video of their ...

And that's what we must do if we want to change the trajectory of our country. We have to make a difference, and we can. For those who say, we can't do anything, let's look at the kinds of things that they're actually doing in Congress and in state legislatures to reverse, to back-roll the kinds of public safety that are important to us. Because of this shooting, because there are certain reports that indicate that the shooter used those kinds of devices. Just today, Congress was supposed to have a hearing in the House about certain kinds of devices that can be added to assault-style weapons to make them more deadly. We have stopped more than four million, through the Brady law, four million sales of guns to prohibited purchasers. Over the Internet and at gun shows, these guns can be sold with no background check by private sellers, because when Jim and Sarah Brady passed the law, there was no Internet, and there were no gun shows. But there are a couple of things I want to point out that suggest that Congress won't act on this anytime soon. This person's parents didn't know that the guns were in the house. Authorities are still searching for a motive in the shooting at a school in Nashville, Tennessee, that left six people dead. Actually, 19 states and the District of Columbia have passed those last year. The three adults killed included the head of the school, Katherine Koonce.

As Nashville residents hold vigils for the victims of Monday's mass shooting at a school, this corner of a city known for its music and live entertainment ...

"Nashville is a wonderful place to be and I feel like that bubble has burst now," said resident Laura Morris, who attended the service. She looked out at the faces of all ages. "It's no longer happening across the country. And at a church down the road, others gathered for a religious service of prayer. Locals kept arriving throughout the day to leave flowers, notes and cuddly toys for the youngest of the victims at a makeshift memorial outside the privately run Christian school. As Nashville residents hold vigils for the victims of Monday's mass shooting at a school, this corner of a city known for its music and live entertainment has fallen into a grief-stricken hush.

As investigators searched for a motive in the killing of six people at the Covenant School in Nashville, the close-knit community there was struggling with ...

The children were running the bases — “grieving the way kids do,” Ms. “And in the very next breath, you think, ‘Well, I might be dead, too.’ I don’t know that I’ll ever be able to process those conflicting thoughts.” He was “beloved by the faculty and students who filled him with joy for 14 years,” the statement said. Hill, a father of seven and grandfather of 14, liked to cook and spend time with family, his family said in a statement. Scruggs acknowledged that “he’s in shock.” The congregation also had ties to Ms. Koonce’s and a director of family counseling at Daystar Counseling Ministries in Nashville. He described the anguish caused by the shooting — “the emptiness, the lack of understanding, the desperate desire for answers, the desperate need for hope,” he said. “The reality is, this event in Nashville is not merely an event for one school or one church or city,” said Paul Goebel, an associate pastor at Park Cities Presbyterian. The authorities said on Tuesday that the 28-year-old perpetrator had legally purchased seven firearms recently — including the three used in the shooting — and was being treated by a doctor for an emotional disorder. “I can’t do anything except plead with the Congress to act reasonably,” he said. Hill and Evelyn were all dead, as were two other 9-year-old students and a substitute teacher who had been fatally shot in the attack. And there were bright students like 9-year-old Evelyn Dieckhaus, “a light for her family,” her pastor said.

The attack unfolded over 14 minutes Monday morning at The Covenant School, with the heavily armed shooter firing into the elementary school to gain access and ...

Also killed were Cynthia Peak, 61, a substitute teacher; Katherine Koonce, the 60-year-old head of the school; and Mike Hill, a 61-year-old custodian, police said. Police have referred to Hale as a “female shooter,” and at an evening news conference added Hale was transgender. The first call about the shooting came in at 10:13 a.m. Bill Lee said in a video statement Tuesday. Hale graduated from Nossi College of Art & Design in Nashville last year, the president of the school confirmed to CNN. Writings left behind by Hale revealed the attack “was calculated and planned,” police said. It was also the deadliest US school shooting in nearly a year, since the May Monday, saying “I’m planning to die today” and that it would be on the news, the friend Averianna Patton told CNN on Tuesday. Patton said she then called a suicide prevention line and the Nashville Davidson County Sheriff’s Office at around 10:13 a.m. But we always want to get better. Three of those weapons, including an AR-style rifle, were used in the attack Monday. Hale’s childhood friend also revealed the shooter sent her disturbing messages just before the attack.

America's latest mass shooting was put to a stop by police officers minutes after they arrived at Nashville's Covenant School. The shooting - which left ...

Other officers fire four more shots and shout at the shooter to stop moving. He fires four shots at Hale, who falls to the ground. Soon after, the woman, who appears to be in communication with staff members inside, notes that "a bunch of kids" are upstairs. In a clip taken from Mr Collazo's bodycam, an officer can be heard saying "we've got one down", to which Mr Collazo replies: "Keep pushing." The attack would end with police officers shooting Hale dead. Custodian Michael Hill, 61, was shot through the glass during the opening salvo of gunfire at 10:10 AM.

The assailant had been receiving treatment for an "emotional disorder," Nashville's police chief said.

Authorities found a booklet that detailed the entry point into the school, the weapons used and the clothing that the shooter wore in the attack. Drake said that the shooter may have also had other targets in mind, including a mall and possibly some family members. Hill, a school custodian, was shot through a glass door that the shooter used to enter the school, Drake said. Tennessee doesn't have a "red flag" law that could give police the authority to remove weapons from a person, Drake said. Bill Lee said that his wife, Maria Lee, was longtime friends with two of the victims, Koonce and Peak. [Nashville school shooting](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nashville-school-shooting-covenant-school/) legally bought seven firearms from five local stores and used three of those weapons in Monday's attack.

Investigators were still searching for a motive in the killing of six people at the Covenant School. The police said the assailant was being treated for an ...

The Covenant School was founded in 2001 as a ministry of the Covenant Presbyterian Church. Chief Drake said the shooter identified as transgender, and officials used “she” and “her” to refer to the attacker. And she was a close friend of the wife of Gov. There were additional writings found in the car driven to the school and the family’s home. The assailant was being treated by a doctor for an emotional disorder. The shooter had a handwritten diagram of the school, along with a drawing of how it could be entered, Mr. Hallie was the daughter of Chad Scruggs, the pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church, the church connected to the school. Hill was a school custodian who liked to cook and spend time with family, including his seven children and 14 grandchildren, his family said in a statement. The police received a report of the shooting at 10:13 a.m. With a weapon drawn, the shooter could be seen walking through rooms and the halls of the school, at one point passing the children’s ministry. Hale](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/27/us/nashville-school-shooting-audrey-hale.html), a 28-year-old former student of the school who lived in the area, had legally purchased seven firearms recently — including the three used in the shooting — and was being treated for an emotional disorder, the police said on Tuesday. Investigators were still searching for a motive in the killing of six people at the Covenant School.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has called for prayers in the wake of a Nashville school shooting while noting that "there will be a time to talk about the ...

Video from the school's surveillance cameras shows the suspect arriving in a vehicle and parking in the parking lot at 9:54 a.m. After an officer shouts "reloading," officers Rex Engelbert, a four-year veteran, and Michael Collazo, a nine-year veteran, both fire at the suspect. "We have not been able to determine a motive as of yet," the police chief said. As officers responded to the scene, the suspect fired on police cars from a second-floor window, police said. "We are grieving tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our church and school," the school said. A police spokesperson later told ABC News that the suspect was assigned female at birth but pointed to a social media account linked to Hale that included the use of the pronouns he/him. [legally purchased](https://abcnews.go.com/US/10-deadliest-shootings-past-decade-involved-legally-purchased/story?id=98184833) seven guns from five different local stores and hid some of those weapons at home. [gunned down](https://abcnews.go.com/US/multiple-patients-reported-amid-active-aggressor-nashville-school/story?id=98152651) three children and three adults at the Covenant School in Tennessee's capital city on Monday morning. "The battle is not against flesh and blood, it's not against people. For the families of victims, for the Covenant family, for those courageous officers, for the family of the shooter, for those who are hurting and angry and confused," Lee, a Republican, said in a video address on Tuesday evening. Investigators have since searched Hale's home in Nashville, where they seized "a sawed-off shotgun, a second shotgun and other evidence," according to police. "Law enforcement officials and educators across our state have been working for years, especially in the last year, to strengthen the safety of schools.

Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old former Covenant School student who killed six people at the school Monday, carefully planned the attack, according to officials.

Colomy asked the student if it would help to step out for a second, and Hale did, the teacher said. One image included the phrase, “To Be A Kid (forever and ever).” A former vice president of the college, Byron Edwards, described Hale as, “… Patton, now a Nashville radio host, said she hasn’t had a relationship with the suspect since they were children and has only ever referred to Hale as Audrey or “she.” While the shooter’s gender identity is unclear, police told CNN Hale was assigned female at birth and that Hale used “male pronouns” on social media. Hale graduated from Nossi College of Art & Design in Nashville last year, the school’s president confirmed to CNN.

The 28-year-old who killed three children and three adults at a Christian school in Nashville was under care for an emotional disorder and had legally ...

There have been at least [130 mass shootings](https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/nashville-tennessee-covenant-school-shooting-3-28-23/h_8e1cda1d0171d8fb2197f50770a9efa9) in 2023, according to data from [the Gun Violence Archive](https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/), including Monday's deadly [shooting](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/27/us/covenant-school-shooting-nashville-tennessee/index.html). [victims of the shooting](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/28/us/victims-covenant-school-shooting-nashville/index.html) include [Evelyn Dieckhaus](https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/nashville-tennessee-covenant-school-shooting-3-28-23/h_78ae4a6a8217ae2773943ae5aa7ae883), 9; [Mike Hill](https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/nashville-tennessee-covenant-school-shooting-3-28-23/h_d4067f7543c8f40cf31788e7b673b813), 61; [Katherine Koonce](https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/nashville-tennessee-covenant-school-shooting-3-28-23/h_d1638ef70e20b01f976f62e78f3a15d9), 60; [Cynthia Peak](https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/nashville-tennessee-covenant-school-shooting-3-28-23/h_83e85f8544dbb5ad0056fd31af82bfcd), 61; [Hallie Scruggs](https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/nashville-tennessee-covenant-school-shooting-3-28-23/h_9d32e06808ae5dbb7eb62e035510f6df), 9; and William Kinney, 9. Engelbert enters the school — about one minute after pulling up to the building — with other officers following and immediately getting into a tactical formation. Here's [a full timeline](https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/03/us/timeline-covenant-school-shooting-nashville/) of how the shooting went down. In wake of the shooting, he reiterated his call for Congress to [pass an assault weapons ban](https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/nashville-tennessee-covenant-school-shooting-3-28-23/h_30b83877881a72b10337860c66fac31f) Tuesday and said there is a "moral price to pay for inaction." He said Tuesday that Hale, who was a former student of the Covenant School, purchased at least seven guns [legally and locally](https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/nashville-tennessee-covenant-school-shooting-3-28-23/h_934b4872c98501b6834f5ec1aed095dc). The officer approaches a woman outside the school who says the school is on lockdown but there are two children unaccounted for. He grabs a long rifle from the car's trunk and heads toward one part of the building before heading toward a door. According to three senior administration officials, White House officials are [not currently planning](https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/nashville-tennessee-covenant-school-shooting-3-28-23/h_f55e40b5b6fc8ee4bb40fbe377dd6a8c) a major new push around gun safety reform. But because Patton was not the person at risk of harming herself, the call recipient advised Patton to [unfolded over about 14 minutes,](https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/nashville-tennessee-covenant-school-shooting-3-28-23/h_b6e9c7d543b70492745cc0d950fff874) according to police, and spanned two floors of the school. [the attack in Uvalde, Texas](https://www.cnn.com/specials/us/texas-robb-elementary-shooting) last May.

Two police officers are being hailed as heroes for their role in ending a shooting rampage at a local Christian elementary school in Nashville.

[Read more here](https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2023/03/29/nashville-shooting-melissa-joan-hart-helped-covenant-school-children/70059220007/). [Read more here](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/03/28/nashville-shooter-audrey-hale-instagram-dms-covenant-school/11558778002/). His sister, Deanna Collazo DeHart, told told [Fox News Digital](https://www.foxnews.com/us/rex-engelbert-michael-collazo-who-are-nashville-officers-who-took-down-covenant-school-shooter) her brother loves his job. Lee, wife close friends with victim; bodycam footage shows police confronting Nashville shooter: Updates](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/03/28/nashville-shooting-covenant-school-victims-motive-live-updates/11554361002/) [Actress Melissa Joan Hart helped kids flee shooter] [When children were fleeing Covenant School as a shooter roamed the hallways, actress Melissa Joan Hart and her husband ] [happened to be driving by](https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2023/03/29/nashville-shooting-melissa-joan-hart-helped-covenant-school-children/70059220007/). She said her children, Drew, 3, and Jett, 1, were safe and she and her husband, Andrew East – a former NFL player who played college ball at Nashville's Vanderbilt University – had retrieved them from their school "You'll probably hear about me on the news." The Marine Corps veteran also responded to the ] [Christmas 2020 bombing in Nashville](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/12/29/nashville-bombing-area-communications-network-exposed-achilles-heel/4070797001/), where Anthony Quinn Warner detonated a bomb downtown that took Warner's life and injured eight bystanders. Hart's children go to school near the Covenant School and she was on her way there for a parent-teacher conference, she said in an [Instagram video](https://www.instagram.com/p/CqVwpKXj_RE/) posted Tuesday. [Predators, Bruins hockey teams pay homage to victims] [The Nashville Predators and Boston Bruins took a moment to ] [remember the victims ](https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/predators/2023/03/28/nashville-predators-boston-bruins-remember-covenant-school-shooting-victims-moment-of-silence/70058377007/)Tuesday night. "They were climbing out of the woods. Rex Engelbert and Michael Collazo are the officers whose body camera videos from inside The Covenant School were released by the Metro Nashville Police Department. They were among dozens of Metro Nashville police who descended on the building after the first 911 call came in at 10:13 a.m.

Robin Wolfenden was practicing yoga on her balcony on a spring morning in Nashville when she heard the sirens - the sound of first responders rushing to the ...

When she first heard there was a shooting in the area, Lucas was afraid it was at her kids' institution. "You hear about this happening all the time. But, she said, "Of course it will. You know, why wouldn't it happen to us?" it doesn't discriminate against anybody. "I feel like our souls were shattered.

Tennessee governor reveals he and his wife were friends with murdered teacher Cynthia Peak, one of six people shot dead on Monday, and had invited her to ...

Here are the receipts to prove it.’ “We want to see all the facts, we need to get the facts,” Mr McCarthy, a lawmaker from California, told the news network Wednesday. The Republican Speaker of the House was asked about the shooting, which left three children and three adults dead at a Christian elementary school in Tennessee, by CNN. Far right has latched on to identity of Nashville shooter to fuel transphobic hatred Far-right has latched on to identity of Nashville shooter to fuel transphobic hatred. White House Press Secretary says the lack of a response from the GOP is ‘unacceptable’ White House press secretary says the lack of a response from the GOP is ‘unacceptable’. Jill Biden attended a candlelight vigil in Nashville on Wednesday night to honour the three children and three adults who were murdered at the Covenant school in the city. ‘The right is the radicalized threat to public safety, not the LGBTQ community. Police said that the suspect, who was armed with two assault-style rifles and a handgun on Monday, was a former student at the school who had methodically planned the attack and may have harboured “resentment” against the institution. Art college instructor Maria Colomy, who taught Hale at the Nossi College of Art & Design in Nashville, recalled a social media post from the shooter “openly grieving” the unknown individual and said that Hale had announced the bereavement and asked to be addressed as Aiden and by masculine pronouns from then on. Jill Biden attends a vigil in the city as Kevin McCarthy refuses to commit to gun control legislation

Police said 14 minutes passed between the time they got a 911 call about a shooter at a Christian school outside Nashville and the suspect's death.

Two officers engaged the suspect, who was fatally shot, according to investigators. A team of five officers arrived on the second level and saw a shooter who was firing. Officers entered the school and began clearing it when they heard shots coming from the second level, according to investigators. The suspected shooter allegedly entered the Christian school through a side entrance and went from the first floor to the second floor, firing multiple shots, police said. 10:10 a.m.: The suspect is seen in surveillance footage shooting through the front door and entering the building. 9:53 a.m.: The suspect's vehicle is seen on surveillance cameras arriving at the school and parking in the parking lot.

"We helped a class of kindergartners across a busy highway that were climbing out of the woods, that were trying to escape the shooter situation," she said.

She said the rampage unfolded "right next to" the school that her kids attend. We helped a mom reunite with her children." "So this is our second experience with a school shooting with our kids being in close proximity."

Actress Melissa Joan Hart says she was near Nashville's Covenant School soon after Monday's deadly shooting of six people, including three children, ...

Hart said this was not the first time her family has been in close proximity to a school shooting. “We helped all these tiny little … [deadliest US school shooting](https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/29/us/texas-iowa-school-safety-funding/index.html) in nearly a year and the 19th shooting at a school or university so far in 2023 that left at least one person wounded, a CNN count shows. Hart said she waited a day to release the video because it was “too raw to post” on the day of the shooting. “We helped a class of kindergartners across a busy highway that were climbing out of the woods, that were trying to escape the shooter situation at their school,” said Hart. “My kids go to school right next to a school where there was a shooting today,” Hart said in an

Monday's deadly school shooting set in motion a familiar cycle of condolences, calls to action and open-ended questions. Police have identified Audrey Hale ...

"I don't think you're going to stop the gun violence. And, as with these previous shootings, lawmakers were once again quick to concede that Monday's act of violence likely won't be enough to shake off the stalemate on gun reform. "I don't see any real role we could do other than mess things up," he said on the steps of the U.S. "But we have no information at present to indicate that the shooter was targeting any one of the six individuals who were murdered." [hate crimes in the U.S. You've got to change people's hearts." But the investigation into why and how the violence unfolded is only just beginning. Hawley's choice in framing caught on quickly with other Republican leaders. When it comes to emotional duress, In actuality, Hale had legally purchased seven firearms from five local gun stores. [hate crime investigation](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-garland-testifies-on-budget-in-senate-hearing-as-gop-attacks-over-school-protests) into the shooting "for the targeting of Christians." "This school — this church building — was a target of the shooter," said Nashville police spokesperson Don Aaron.

The actress says she was near the Nashville school where a shooter opened fire, killing six.

Officers said Hale was armed with at least two assault-style weapons and a handgun, all of which were purchased legally. They were trying to escape the shooter situation at their school," Hart said, appearing visibly upset. Pray for the families." The adults were all staff members. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. They were climbing out of the woods.

The 46-year-old star has emotionally reflected on how she and her husband, Mark Wilkerson, helped a class of preschoolers trying to get away from the scene.

She added: "We helped a mom reunite with her children, and I just ... Just pray, pray for the families." She captioned her video: "Prayers today, Action tomorrow. So we helped these tiny little kids cross the road and get their teachers over there." "We helped a class of Kindergartners across a busy highway. Luckily we are all okay.