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The shooter who killed six at a Nashville private school on Monday morning was a 28-year-old woman, according to police. Authorities previously said she appeared to be a teenager. “3 students & 3 adult staff members from Covenant School were fatally shot by the active shooter, who has now...
First lady Jill Biden said Monday, "I am truly without words. Our children deserve better." An active shooter event has taken place at Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, on Burton Hills Dr. The shooter was engaged by MNPD and is dead. Student reunification with parents is...
“This school prepared for this with active shooter training for a reason,” Nashville Metropolitan Councilman Russ Pulley told CNN Monday. “We don’t like to think that this is ever going to happen to us. But experience has taught us that we need to be prepared because in this day and...
“Active shooter Audrey Elizabeth Hale, 28, drove this Honda Fit to the Covenant Church/school campus this morning and parked. MNPD detectives searched it and found additional material written by Hale.” In a second tweet, police released photos of the doors the shooter shot out to e...