Nashville shooting

Police officers stand on a school's campus under blossoming trees. Metro Nashville Police officers are seen at the scene of an active shooter event ...

The Covenant School was founded as a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church in 2001, according to the school’s website. “I have also visited the church in the past. The reporter said she has not been able to speak with her mother-in-law but said her husband had. Police said the shooter was a 28-year-old woman from Nashville, after initially saying she appeared to be in her teens. “My heart goes out to the families of the victims. On WTVF TV, reporter Hannah McDonald said that her mother-in-law works at the front desk at The Covenant School.

The female attacker was shot dead by police after a confrontation with officers following the assault at the Covenant School. She was armed with two ...

It tears my heart apart to see this." We have some writings that we're going over that pertain to this day, the actual incident. Police chief John Drake said: "We have a manifesto. Our entire city stands with you." They were armed with two assault-type weapons and a pistol. The attacker was shot dead by police after a confrontation with officers following the assault at the Covenant School.

The gunwoman died after being shot by police following the violence at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian school for about 200 pupils. She had drawn a detailed ...

The woman had stepped outside for a break and was coming back when she heard gunshots, Ms McDonald said during a live broadcast. The school’s website features the motto Shepherding Hearts, Empowering Minds, Celebrating Childhood. Jozen Reodica heard the police sirens and fire engines blaring from outside her office building nearby. “And right now, it’s real.” The Covenant School was founded as a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church in 2001, according to the school’s website. “My heart goes out to the families of the victims. “It’s heartbreaking, a family’s worst nightmare,” he said. “In a tragic morning, Nashville joined the dreaded, long list of communities to experience a school shooting,” Nashville mayor John Cooper tweeted, thanking emergency services and medical professionals. My heart goes out to the families of the victims. “It’s ripping at the soul of this nation, ripping at the very soul of this nation.” He said there were no police officers present or assigned to the school at the time of the shooting because it is a church-run school. More than 5,000 readers have already pitched in to keep free access to The Journal.

A 28-year-old woman killed three children and three staff at a private primary school in Nashville, Tennessee, before being shot dead by police, in the ...

It's ripping our communities apart, ripping the soul of this nation." Spare us the hand-wringing," Ms Cash tweeted. Please review their details and accept them to load the content. The Covenant School, founded in 2001, is a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church in the Green Hills neighbourhood of Nashville with about 200 students, according to the school's website. Three students were pronounced dead after arriving at Monroe Carell Jr. Mr Drake identified the suspect as a woman by the name of Audrey Elizabeth Hale, 28, a resident of the Nashville area, and referred to the assailant by female pronouns.

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

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

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

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

The attacker shot dead three children and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee.

We have a map drawn out of how this was all going to take place." They were a former student at the school and a Nashville resident who lived with their parents. A school shooter killed six at the Covenant School in Nashville before police shot her dead.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The big picture: The suspect was shot and killed by police and has been identified as a 28-year-old former student of The Covenant School, where the shooting ...

- In response to a reporter's question, police confirmed Hale identified as transgender but provided no further details on this at the press conference. - Drake said Hale had drawn detailed maps of the school, including of surveillance and entry points. "We have a map drawn out of how this was all gonna take place." "So I call on Congress, again, to pass my [President Biden](https://www.axios.com/politics-policy/joe-biden)who later spoke with Tennessee Gov. - The school said it was grateful to first responders "who acted quickly to protect our students, faculty and staff," and appreciated the support it received as it continued to "prioritize the well-being of our community." - "We are focused on loving our students, our families, our faculty and staff and beginning the process of healing." - "We are grieving tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our school and church," the statement added. - Officers seized evidence including a "sawed-off shotgun" and a second shotgun in a search of the suspect's home, police said in a statement late Monday. It serves children in grades preschool through sixth grade. - A "team of five immediately within the school went to where gunshots were being heard and engaged the suspect," Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake said during a - The MNPD in a statement late Monday called the attack "calculated and planned."

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.

Police named the gunwoman as Audrey Hale, who they said was transgender and carried out the attack after drawing a detailed map of The Covenant School in ...

“The children … “It’s ripping at the soul of this nation, ripping at the very soul of this nation,” he said. The website of The Covenant School, a Presbyterian school founded in 2001, lists Katherine Koonce as the head of the school since July 2016.

After Audrey Hale's deadly rampage, the Covenant School in Nashville will be added to the list of school shootings that pepper the United States - tragedies ...

Tragedies that continue in a cycle of gun violence. As a former student, they knew and had studied the layout of the building, plotting an attack on society's most innocent. "I just wanted to do something."

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.

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.

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".

Audrey Hale, who identified as transgender and was a former student of the private Christian school, killed three children and three adults before being ...

He is shown firing his pistol at Hale in the second volley of shots after the suspect was already on the ground. I need three!" Hale, 28, is then hit by a second volley of bullets. "Let's go! Footage from Officer Rex Engelbert's bodycam shows him opening fire with a rifle several times on Hale before the perpetrator falls to the ground injured. Footage shows Officer Rex Engelbert opening fire with a rifle several times on Audrey Hale before the perpetrator falls to the ground injured.

Follow along live for the latest updates Tuesday in the aftermath of a deadly shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville.

[Hale was a former student at The Covenant School](https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2023/03/27/nashville-school-shooting-what-we-know-about-28-year-old-female-shooter/70053679007/), according to police. "Officers entered the first story of the school and begin clearing it. Zion Presbyterian Church Senior Pastor Paul Joiner, who spoke slowly, deliberately and somberly, said many of church members were close to fellow congregants at Covenant Presbyterian Church "up the road." [Video footage released late Monday](https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2023/03/27/mnpd-releases-body-cam-video-of-mondays-school-shooting/70054489007/) shows the first moments of the shooting. "I have done the full extent of my executive authority, to do anything about guns," he said. Hale also said in the messages to Patton that a March 13 Instagram post was actually a suicide note. For some, [that moment never came](https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2023/03/27/nashville-mourns-mass-shooting-covenant-school/70052585007/). [reunite with their children](https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2023/03/27/nashville-school-shooting-leaves-parents-waiting-to-be-reunited/70053082007/). "Like many of you, I’ve experienced tragedy in my own life, and I’ve experienced the day after that tragedy. Battle praised the emergency response to the shooting and acknowledged the deep grief it's brought on for those affected. [Several vigils were held Monday night](https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2023/03/27/nashville-tennessee-covenant-school-shooting-prayer-vigils/70054498007/) across Nashville in honor of the victims and their families. Emergency vehicles and helicopters swarmed the Green Hills neighborhood, which is home to several schools, a string of businesses and residential neighborhoods.

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.

Victim Hallie Scruggs was the daughter of lead pastor Chad Scruggs whose church runs the Covenant School.

But, we must be about more.” Hallie Scruggs was the daughter of Chad Scruggs, the lead pastor at the Covenant Presbyterian Church, according to a statement released by a Presbyterian Church in Dallas where Mr Scruggs had served as an associate pastor. The six people who were fatally shot at a Christian elementary school in Nashville on Monday included nine-year-old Hallie Scruggs, the daughter of the pastor whose church runs the Covenant School.