Nashville

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.

For hours, police identified the shooter as a 28-year-old woman, then later as transgender, before declining to elaborate on how Hale currently identified.

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. They lamented the national cycle of violent and deadly shootings. 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. 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.” 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.” The victims included three 9-year-old children, the school’s top administrator, a substitute teacher and a custodian. Police said a search of Hale’s home turned up a sawed-off shotgun, a second shotgun and other unspecified evidence. “The children … Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake did not say exactly what drove the shooter to open fire Monday morning at The Covenant School before being killed by police.

Joe Biden has bemoaned the death of six people in a shooting by an ex-student at a school in the city of Nashville, Tennessee.

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. 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. A search of a nearby parked car led officers to “firmly believe” that Hale was a former student of the school, said police. Hale, who had no criminal record, was a former student at the school and officers said they believe “resentment” may have been a motive. The attack which took place at the Covenant School, a private Christian school for students aged three to 11 resulted in the death of three children and three adults. The United States of America President, Joe Biden has bemoaned the death of six people in a shooting by an ex-student at a school in the city of Nashville, Tennessee by calling it a “family’s worst nightmare”.

The suspect was "prepared for a confrontation with law enforcement," the police chief told reporters following the latest outburst of gun violence in the ...

She lives nearby and has an eight-year-old who attends a school only two miles down the road from The Covenant School. Television images showed children holding hands as they left the school. The school was founded by and housed in the Covenant Presbyterian Church, part of a theologically conservative denomination, The New York Times reported. 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. Chief of Police John Drake named the suspect as Audrey Hale, 28, who left behind a manifesto and had maps of the school detailing surveillance and entry-exit points.

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.

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.

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.

U.S. President Joe Biden ordered U.S. state flags be flown at half-mast after a shooting at a private Christian grade school in Nashville, the White House ...

One of the victims, Katherine Koonce, is listed as Head of School on the institution’s website. – 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 in Nashville on Monday, before being shot dead by police. A man drops flowers to a makeshift memorial where baloons and Teddy bears are left on the outside the Covenant School building at the Covenant Presbyterian Church, in Nashville, Tennessee, March 27, 2023.

Authorities identified the six victims as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all 9 years old, and 61-year-old Cynthia Peak, ...

Responding officers saw the shooter firing on the second level, and at that point, they "engaged," Aaron said. They determined that the shooter had previously purchased seven firearms, legally, from five local stores, according to Drake. However, police do not believe that the victims were targeted individually. All three adults worked at the school. The shooter was fatally shot by two of the five responding police officers at the scene, he said. Police said the shooter was armed with "at least" two assault-style rifles and a handgun during the attack.

Nashville police chief John Drake told reporters that Audrey Hale, 28, had been receiving treatment for an "emotional disorder". By Channels Television.

“I carry a gun with me most days, but I don’t need an assault rifle,” he told AFP. “I’ve left behind more than enough evidence behind. “She was under doctors’ care for an emotional disorder… In the search for a motive, Drake told NBC News that “there’s some belief that there was some resentment for having to go to that school.” Her parents felt that she should not own weapons. Nashville police chief John Drake told reporters that Audrey Hale, 28, had been receiving treatment for an “emotional disorder,” and that the shooter’s parents believed their child — who lived at home with them — had bought and later resold a single gun.