Nashville shooting

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.

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.

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

so far this year, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database, a website founded by researcher David Riedman. "We have to do more to stop gun violence," Biden said at the White House. The school serves preschool through sixth graders and held an active-shooter training program in 2022, local television station WTVF-TV reported. 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. He said the Covenant School was singled out for attack but that the individual victims were targeted at random.

Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake did not say exactly what drove the shooter to open fire Monday morning (March 27, 2023) at The Covenant School ...

The Covenant School was founded as a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church in 2001, according to the school’s website. (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. “My heart goes out to the families of the victims. Two officers from a five-member team opened fire in response, fatally shooting the suspect at 10:27 a.m., Aaron said. The suspect — who was wielding two “assault-style” rifles and a pistol — also died after being shot by police. Police said the shooter was armed with two “assault-type” rifles and a pistol. 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. (AP) — The former student who shot through the doors of a Christian elementary school in Nashville and killed three children and three adults had drawn a detailed map of the school, including potential entry points, and conducted surveillance of the building before carrying out the massacre. Police later said the shooter fired at arriving officers from a second-story window and had come armed with significant ammunition. We are focused on loving our students, our families, our faculty and staff and beginning the process of healing.” “Our community is heartbroken,” a statement from the school said. The victims included three 9-year-old children, the school’s top administrator, a substitute teacher and a custodian.

Authorities are searching for answers after a shooter killed six people at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee.

"We are grieving tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our church and school," the school said. "We have not been able to determine a motive as of yet," the chief said. "We do have a map of the school, where it was diagramed how she would enter and how she might proceed to take on potential victims." "That moment changes everything for you, because we all can relate to the innocence of it." We need Congress to do their part." "I'm going to keep calling it out, remind people that they’re not acting," he said. 1 killer of children in America," he said. Drake had told reporters on Monday that the suspect was female and identified as transgender but didn't immediately provide more details. Hale allegedly shot through a locked door on the side of the school to gain entry, according to police. After an officer shouted "reloading," the video shows officers Rex Engelbert, a four-year veteran, and Michael Collazo, a nine-year veteran, firing at the suspect. The victims were found in different locations, Drake said. The adult victims were identified as 61-year-old substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, 61-year-old custodian Mike Hill and 60-year-old Katherine Koonce, who was head of the school.

Police say Audrey Hale attended the Covenant School in Nashville, where six were killed Monday.

[shooting](https://www.forbes.com/sites/anafaguy/2023/03/27/6-people-killed-in-tennessee-elementary-school-shooting-officials-say/?sh=25ac57c44335) took place Monday morning, with law enforcement [reporting](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/school-shooting-tennessee-leaves-multiple-injured-shooter-dead-officia-rcna76841) they were first alerted to the shooter at 10:13 a.m. According to the [Violence Project](https://www.theviolenceproject.org/mass-shooter-database/), out of 172 mass shootings that had taken place prior to the Nashville attack that had killed more than four people, only four assailants had been female. Approximately 209 students and 42 faculty members were on campus on a typical day, [according](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/school-shooting-tennessee-leaves-multiple-injured-shooter-dead-officia-rcna76841) to police spokesperson Don Aaron. [6 People Killed In Tennessee Elementary School Shooting, Officials Say](https://www.forbes.com/sites/anafaguy/2023/03/27/6-people-killed-in-tennessee-elementary-school-shooting-officials-say/?sh=25ac57c44335) (Forbes) [Nashville School Shooter Allegedly A 28-Year-Old Woman—An Extreme Rarity In Mass Shootings](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/03/27/nashville-school-shooter-allegedly-a-28-year-old-woman-an-extreme-rarity-in-mass-shootings/?sh=40ea8eef865e) (Forbes) [Nashville Christian school shooter was a former student, police chief says](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nashville-christian-school-shooter-appears-former-student-police-chief-rcna76876) (NBC News) There are 131 mass shootings in total that have taken place so far in the U.S. President Joe Biden [called](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/27/biden-tennessee-school-shooting-gun-control-congress) the shooting “heartbreaking” on Monday and called on Congress to pass an assault weapons ban—which Republicans are still [resisting](https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3920813-senate-gop-gun-reform-legislation-unlikely-after-nashville-school-shooting/)—saying gun violence was “ripping our communities apart” and the U.S. Covenant School is a private Christian school that [describes](https://www.thecovenantschool.com/welcome/) itself as “helping children become who God intends them to be,” and the school was founded in 2001 as a ministry of the Covenant Presbyterian Church. [K-12 School Shooting Database](https://k12ssdb.org/all-shootings). A typical student.” [NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nashville-christian-school-shooter-appears-former-student-police-chief-rcna76876) he remembered Hale as a third and fourth grade student in 2005 and 2006, noting Hale didn’t appear in the yearbook after that and likely transferred, saying there was “nothing unusual” about the student and Hale was “just a typical co-ed. [confirmed](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/nashville-school-shooting-covenant-live-updates-rcna76861), describing the suspect as a “talented artist and good student,” and the suspect’s personal website said Hale was a freelance graphic designer and illustrator with two cats who “enjoy[s] binging on video games, watching movies, and playing sports,” according to [ABC News](https://abcnews.go.com/US/nashville-shooter-audrey-hale/story?id=98166039). [shooting](https://www.forbes.com/sites/anafaguy/2023/03/27/6-people-killed-in-tennessee-elementary-school-shooting-officials-say/?sh=25ac57c44335) at Covenant School Monday that killed six people, and have identified the alleged shooter as 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale—here’s what we know about the suspect so far.

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.

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.

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.

Police release body camera footage of attack at Christian primary school that left three children, three adults dead.

“The time is now.” Surveillance footage released by police showed Hale wearing camouflage pants, a black vest over a T-shirt, and a backward red baseball cap. [school shooting](/opinions/2023/2/1/mass-shootings-are-just-one-part-of-us-gun-problem) – defined as any incident in which a gun is discharged on school property – in the United States this year, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database, a website founded by researcher David Riedman. “I’ve left behind more than enough evidence behind. The assailant is seen shooting through a glass door to gain entry to the school before stalking the halls. Police on Tuesday were poring over what they described as a “manifesto” left by the attacker following the mass shooting at the Covenant School in the city’s leafy Green Hills community.

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."

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Here's what we know about the six victims of a fatal shooting at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee.

"Cindy was a pillar of the community, and a teacher beloved by all her students," her family told ABC News in a statement. The school was founded in 2001 as a ministry of the church, according to the school's website. "Through tears we trust that she is in the arms of Jesus who will raise her to life once again." "We pray for the Covenant School and are so grateful that Michael was beloved by the faculty and students who filled him with joy for 14 years." We appreciate all the love and support but ask for space as we grieve." The Covenant School, a private Christian school for children in preschool through sixth grade, has about 209 students and 40 to 50 staff members.

The woman standing outside Nashville's Covenant School was calm and direct. The building was locked down, but two young students were still missing.

“She had this amazing confidence, but she was a person of grace,” Lee said. “We love the Scruggs family and mourn with them over their precious daughter Hallie,” the Texas congregation’s Senior Pastor Mark Davis said. “I think it’s upstairs, it sounds like it’s upstairs,” an officer says in the video. “Our hearts are completely broken,” Evelyn’s family said in a statement. Koonce’s friend and former colleague Jim Lee told CNN he and his wife flew to Nashville after learning she had been killed. Evelyn was a shining light in this world.” “Suspect down!” Collazo screamed twice into his radio. Hale was a former student and had been under care for an “emotional disorder,” Metro Nashville Police Department Chief John Drake said Tuesday. Armed with three weapons, Hale can be seen ducking through the broken door and entering. Some doors open to darkened rooms, small desks and chairs empty; others are locked. Engelbert’s body camera footage shows the officers hurrying through halls decorated with children’s artwork, checking classrooms in an increasingly desperate search for the shooter. Custodian Mike Hill was shot through that door, police said.

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.

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.

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.

Mass shootings are frequent in the US and Nashville residents joined the nationwide roster after school attack.

"You hear about this happening all the time. You know, why wouldn't it happen to us?" "Of course, it will. It doesn't discriminate against anybody,” she said. It's just devastating, and I can't even fathom," she added. "I feel like our souls were shattered.

A number of bills to expand access to firearms are being considered in this year's General Assembly session.

"We need to hold these folks accountable for the lack of action," Rosenberger said. [Three children and three adults](https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2023/03/27/who-are-the-nashville-school-shooting-victims-covenant-presbyterian/70053940007/) were killed in a Monday morning attack carried out by a shooter police identified as 28-year-old Audrey Hale. Speakers urged the several hundred people gathered to come back next week, when the legislation might be taken up again. Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers sought a legislative avenue to do the same, filing a bill that would allow any adult to carry any firearm, even a semi-automatic assault style rifle, without a permit. "I am disappointed we were not able to act on our bipartisan, common sense gun legislation today. Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti earlier this year struck a deal with plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit out of Knoxville that will allow all adults to carry handguns openly or concealed without a permit, background check or safety training.

The latest news on the school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, where three adults and three children were killed.

Some Republicans shifted the blame away from guns, instead pointing to the [shooter’s gender identity](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/right-blame-gender-identity-not-guns-nashville-shooting-rcna76969) and mental illness. “You don’t know if [the shooter’s gender identity] is going to trigger a community of people who already hated us to come and try to shoot us to prove a point,” Sadler said. [viral tweet](https://twitter.com/brenonade/status/1640512268927418368) showed him claiming after the shooting, “We’re not gonna fix it,” when asked what Congress would do about the problem of school shootings. Following the anti-trans rhetoric spawned by the shooting, Sadler said she is now planning to hire eight. “We are terrified for the LGBTQ community here,” Kim Spoon, a trans activist based in Knoxville, Tennessee, said. Shortly after news broke Monday of a fatal shooting at a private Christian Nashville elementary school, police said the suspect was transgender. “We helped a class of kindergartners across a busy highway. [Click here to read the full story](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/melissa-joan-hart-breaks-tears-describes-helping-kindergarteners-run-n-rcna77094) Democrats called for stricter gun control legislation, with President Joe Biden [urging Congress to pass an assault weapons ban](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/nashville-school-shooting-tennessee-aftermath-live-updates-rcna76937). “If you want to legislate evil, it’s just not going to happen,” Burchett said. He added, “If you think Washington is going to fix this problem, you’re wrong. Earlier this week, a shooter attacked The Covenant School in Nashville, killing six people, including three children.

I don't see any real role that we could do other than mess things up, honestly,” Representative Tim Burchett, of Tennessee, said. “We gotta change people's ...

Among children killed accidentally by firearms, the vast majority either shoot themselves or are shot by a peer, sibling, or parent, at their own home or at the home of a friend. It is easy to sympathize with parents, regardless of their political or religious affinities, who might be tempted to retreat from the outside world, to hunker down, in a brutally divided country with more guns than people. School as a physical, social, political, or architectural concept—concepts that were tested by pandemic-era remote learning and that are perverted by school shootings—is premised on people coming together in a common space to receive a common education, one suited for creating a well-informed citizenry that is ready to participate in a democracy and share in the public good. Within the logic of this movement, the parent with absolute command of her rights—the parent who protects her kids—is the parent who homeschools. [the Federalist](https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-federalist-as-medical-journal-in-the-time-of-the-coronavirus), which, following the mass shooting at an elementary school in [Uvalde](https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/seeing-america-again-in-the-texas-elementary-school-shooting), Texas, last year, ran an op-ed with the headline “Tragedies Like the Texas Shooting Make A Somber Case for Homeschooling”: “The same institutions that punish students for ‘misgendering’ people and hide curriculum from parents are simply not equipped to safeguard your children from harm.” Such accusations are drawn from the rhetoric of the [conservative parents’-rights movement](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/07/the-right-wing-mothers-fuelling-the-school-board-wars), which itself [has its roots](https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2022/06/11/parent-rights-home-schooling/) in the Christian homeschooling movement; these criticisms would likely not apply to Covenant, which is a Christian private school. Eighty-five per cent of children ages twelve and under who are killed by a gun are shot in their own home. But even if kids receiving a religious education are shielded from many of the [dangers flagged by parents’-rights advocates](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/21/why-the-school-wars-still-rage)—indoctrination by critical race theory, mandated gender confusion, reams of hardcore pornography crowding the school-library shelves—they still have to face the small but terrifying risk of their school becoming another [Newtown](https://www.newyorker.com/tag/newtown-shooting), [Parkland](https://www.newyorker.com/tag/parkland-school-shooting), Uvalde; they still have to participate in frightening active-shooter drills. Suicide deaths by children and teens, which typically involve a firearm kept in the home, have increased sixty-six per cent in the past decade. A journalist mentioned that Burchett has a young daughter, and asked the congressman what more could be done to “protect people like your little girl” in school. On Monday morning, a twenty-eight-year-old shooter, armed with three guns, all acquired legally, killed three adults and three children at the Covenant School in Nashville. It was the hundred and thirtieth mass shooting in the nation this year. Later that day, a Republican congressman from Tennessee, Tim Burchett, spoke with reporters about the tragedy in his home state.

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

Barry C Black said: 'When babies die at a church school, it is time for us to move beyond thoughts and prayers'

And this has been a priority of mine that we do better at attempting to solve this problem. And however that is done, let’s get it done.” Use them to battle the demonic forces that seek to engulf us. “Lord, deliver our senators from the paralysis of analysis that waits for the miraculous. “It just seems like on the other side, all [Democrats] want to do is take guns away from law-abiding citizens before they even know the facts … The shooter was killed by police.

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.

Police have said that the shooter was extremely prepared for the killings, but no motive has been determined.

"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. Drake said that the shooter may have had other targets, including a local mall. Tennessee does not have a "red flag law" that could give police the authority to remove weapons from a person, Drake told CBS News. [three weapons](https://twitter.com/MNPDNashville/status/1640521034594918400) at The Covenant School, police said, but had [legally purchased seven weapons](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nashville-school-shooter-guns-legally-bought-used-tennessee-rampage/) from five local gun stores. Our team and the FBI have been working on this." "We would like to thank the Nashville community for all the continued thoughts and prayers. "We have no evidence that individuals were specifically targeted," said Don Aaron, the director of media relations at the Nashville Police Department. [According to police](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nashville-school-shooter-what-we-know/), the shooter's parents believed that they had had one gun that had been sold. [Surveillance video showed the shooter](https://twitter.com/MNPDNashville/status/1640545519511404546) was able to get into the school by shooting out a side door. A large memorial at the school with flowers, stuffed animals and candles Body camera footage released by police shows a female adult telling arriving police officers that some students were in lockdown during the shooting. [according to Nashville mayor](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nashville-school-shooting-police-response-saved-many-lives-mayor-john-cooper/) John Cooper.

Security footage shows children sprinting out of a wooded area and across a busy street as they fled a shooting Monday at The Covenant School in Nashville.

[focus on security at private schools](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nashville-shooting-brings-new-focus-security-private-schools-rcna77191)across the U.S. Prayer for the families." [Instagram video](https://www.instagram.com/p/CqVwpKXj_RE/), through tears. They were trying to escape the shooter situation at their school,"' she said in an The shooter, identified by police as Audrey Hale, was fatally shot by Officers Rex Engelbert and Michael Collazo. Sirens could be heard blaring in the background.

First lady Jill Biden visited Nashville on Wednesday to join a memorial vigil for the three children and three adults shot to death this week at a Christian ...

Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake said investigators seeking clues to what precipitated the killings were examining maps and writings in a 60-page notebook found at Hale's home. "As of right now, we don't have any indication there was any problems at the school or home." It has since emerged that Hale was going by the name Aiden and using male pronouns on social media in recent months. Mourners have since left a collection of flowers, balloons and stuffed teddy bears at the school's gate. Lee said Peak and his wife had planned to dine together on Monday. A motive for the killings remains undetermined.

Monday's shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville unfolded over approximately 15 minutes as a shooter opened fire inside, killing six people, ...

Hale’s parents were unaware that Hale had obtained most of the weapons. The Covenant men hurried on their way back to the church. [from the initial call](/article/nashville-school-shooting-covenant-school-5da45b469ccb6c9533bbddf20c1bfe16) to [when officers arrived](/article/nashville-school-shooting-covenant-school-03aa394109a5e682877403c0c3e52aa7) at the scene. He closed the trunk and walked up to a woman who told him that students were locked down and that people inside had just heard gunshots. It’s not known exactly when Hale killed the six people. Three were used in Monday’s shooting. Drake said. We emptied into the hallway ... Engelbert and other officers swiftly searched classrooms, holding rifles and announcing themselves as police. Authorities have not yet determined the shooter’s motive but said Hale, a former student at the school, [did not target](/article/nashville-covenant-school-shooting-updates-3dfb2fcbb22ff8638074fd90c7b266fd) specific victims. In that shooting, 70 minutes Approximately 15 minutes had passed from when Hale shot in the doors, according to the surveillance video and dispatch records.