Nashville shooting

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”.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers have called for action after a shooting at a Nashville elementary school on Monday, but the two parties differ on ...

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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.

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

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.

First lady Dr. Jill Biden will travel to Nashville, Tennessee, later Wednesday to attend a vigil honoring the lives lost in the mass shooting at The ...

“As a teacher, I’ve imagined that scene in my own classroom, again and again,” Dr. She has also reflected on what teachers and students endure at a time when active shooter training has become standard practice in many schools. Hours after the school shooting took place, the first lady said, “I am truly without words, and our children deserve better.

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

Melissa Joan Hart lives in Nashville and helped kids get to safety during the Covenant School shooting, which killed three kids and three adults.

“Our children are dying and being shot in school but you’re more worried about drag queens than smart gun laws?” Price wrote, referring to Lee’s ban on gender-affirming health care for minors, along with a bill he signed that limits drag show performances in Tennessee. “We helped all these tiny little kids cross the road and get their teachers over there, and we helped a mom reunite with her children.” “My husband and I were on our way to [their] school for conferences.

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.

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.

We helped all these tiny little kids cross the road and get their teachers over there, and we helped mom reunite with her children."

Hart said that her children, who attend a neighboring school, were not present on the day of the shooting. She also revealed that this was not the first time her family had been in close proximity to a school shooting. “I don't know what to say anymore.”

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.

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.

Details of three children and three adults shot dead at Covenant School in Tennessee capital have begun to emerge.

On those occasions, Hill would “dress up like he was going to meet the president of the United States,” Bachmann said. [GoFundMe ](https://www.gofundme.com/f/mike-hill-custodian-at-covenant-school-nashville)was made for Hill’s family by two Nashville parents in the community who called Hill a “hero”. One of his daughters, Brittany Hill, wrote on Facebook: “Today my dad lost his life at the Covenant School/Church. Bailey added: “If there was any trouble in that school, she would run to it, not from it. “That’s the kind of person she was. She was trying to protect those kids … “We’re in such shock,” Bailey added. “That’s proverb 17:17,” Bailey said. which is what we’re all trying to do right now.” Nashville songwriter Natalie Hemby posted on Instagram that Peak “taught me how to swim. The private Christian school has about 200 students from pre-school through sixth grade, as well as roughly 50 staff members, according to its website. Koonce, the head of the Covenant School, was described by her family as “devoted to her family, her friends and especially the children she cared for”.