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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".

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.

Nashville is mourning victims of Monday's school shooting as police try to figure out the motive of the 28-year-old shooter, who was killed by police.

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.

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".

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.

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.

Three children and three adults were killed after a former student fired inside The Convenant School in Nashville, Tenn, the officials said.

Officials say several children were killed in a shooting at Covenant School in Nashville. Parishioners participate in a community vigil at Belmont United Methodist Church in the aftermath of a school shooting in Nashville in Nashville, Tenn. A family leave a reunification site in Nashville, Tenn.

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.

Surveillance footage released by Metro Nashville Police showed the shooter, identified as Audrey Elizabeth Hale, arriving in a Honda Fit car, parking, and then ...

The reports are referring to websites and Twitter posts of a so-called Trans Radical Activist Network (TRAN), which appears to have made a call-to-action to ' ...

The shooter had been opening fire through a window at arriving police cars. “We have a manifesto, we have some writings that we're going over that pertain to this date. The items were revealed upon a search of the suspect's house. The Twitter handle of the account has been locked with tweets only visible to the followers. Much of this reporting is coming from right-wing media outlets in the US. As per claims made in these reports, the shooting carried out by 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale, a transgender person, took place days ahead of the so-called 'Trans Day of Vengeance', which was purported to be held on March 31-April 1.

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.

World News: A gunperson killed six people at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee United States. The victims were three minors and three staff ...

According to, Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake, investigators believed the shooting stemmed from some resentment that Hale harboured from going to that school when he was younger. Nashville police chief John Drake also said that they are reviewing a manifesto and writings from the assailant whom they called a "lone zealot". As per police records, Hale entered the school building by shooting through glass doors, while wearing a black vest over a white T-shirt, camouflage trousers and a backwards red baseball cap, roaming around the school premises with the rifle brandished.

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.

Nashville shooting: Former student, Audrey Hale, who shot through the doors of a The Covenant School in Nashville and killed three children and three adults ...

Mass shooter Audrey Hale, 28, who was shot dead by cops, sent a friend a "suicide note" minutes before slaughtering three children and three adults at the ...

But something bad is about to happen." She added: "My family doesn't know what I'm about to do. In response, Hale posted: "I know but I don't want to live. I wanted to tell you first because you are the most beautiful person I've ever seen and known all my life." I'm planning to die today," Hale added, using the Instagram name Aiden. I pray God keeps and covers you."

A memorial ceremony for the dead was conducted at the adjacent Woodmont Christian Church hours after the attack.

The shooting was described as "a family's worst nightmare" by US President [US News](/news/international/us), [UK News](/news/international/uk), [Canada News](/news/international/canada), International Breaking News Events, and Latest News Updates on The Economic Times.) MNPD detectives searched it and found additional material written by Hale.— Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) Officers found more weapons during a search of their home. A manifesto and "a blueprint of how all of this was going to play out," including entrance and departure points at the school building, were discovered there, according to Nashville Police Chief They had created a detailed map of the school with all of the entrances and left behind a manifesto.

US News: NASHVILLE: Nashville police released video on Tuesday from a body-worn camera that shows a team of officers entering and searching an elementary ...

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. Surveillance video of The Covenant School grounds released by police shows a time stamp of just before 10.11 am, when the glass doors were shot out by the shooter. Police said they received a call about a shooter at 10.13 am but have not said precisely what time they arrived, and the edited bodycam footage didn't include time stamps. In all of them, the shooters were males. The majority of the American people think having assault weapons is bizarre, it's a crazy idea. At a late afternoon press conference, the police chief said Hale was transgender. “We have a map drawn out of how this was all going to take place.” Hale had drawn a detailed map of the school, including potential entry points, and conducted surveillance of the building before carrying out the massacre, authorities said. The new video from Officer Rex Engelbert's bodycam shows a woman greeting police outside as they arrive at The Covenant School on Monday. Police response times to school shootings have come under greater scrutiny after the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, in which 70 minutes passed before law enforcement stormed the classroom. Officers climb stairs to the second floor and enter a lobby area.

A dramatic body camera footage showed how Nashville police officers responded after six people, including three children, were killed on Monday in yet ...

It showed police conducting a room-by-room search and when they cleared one classroom after another on the first floor, they went upstairs to the second floor and finally shot down the suspected shooter. Police have identified the attacker as Audrey Elizabeth Hale, who was a transgender person. The video started by showing how a police officer entered the school carrying rifles.

The Nashville school shooting suspect was identified as 28-year-old Audrey Hale, who once attended the same school.

The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). [ABC News](/topic/abc-news)that a former student named Hale graduated from the institution in 2022. The Nashville school shooting victims were identified as nine-year-olds Evelyn Dieckhaus, [Hallie Scruggs](/topic/hallie-scruggs), and [William Kinney](/topic/william-kinney), and adults Cynthia Peak, 61; [Katherine Koonce](/topic/katherine-koonce), 60; and [Mike Hill](/topic/mike-hill), 61.

If there was any trouble in that school, she would run to it, not from it,” Jackie Bailey said of her friend Katherine Koonce, head of The Covenant School.

When Caudill launched her nonprofit advocating for special education resources and other support, she said Koonce was one of the first to donate financially to it. She was ever present in my sister’s life and she’s been very attentive to my family since my sister passed away.” “If there was any trouble in that school, she would run to it, not from it,” Jackie Bailey said of her friend Katherine Koonce, head of The Covenant School. “She got here very, very quickly to grieve my sister with the rest of us. “She was trying to protect those kids … “We love the Scruggs family and mourn with them over their precious daughter Hallie," Park Cities Presbyterian Church Senior Pastor Mark Davis said in a statement.

US News: NASHVILLE: Nashville police released video on Tuesday from a body-worn camera that shows a team of officers entering and searching an elementary ...

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. Surveillance video of The Covenant School grounds released by police shows a time stamp of just before 10.11 am, when the glass doors were shot out by the shooter. Police said they received a call about a shooter at 10.13 am but have not said precisely what time they arrived, and the edited bodycam footage didn't include time stamps. In all of them, the shooters were males. The majority of the American people think having assault weapons is bizarre, it's a crazy idea. At a late afternoon press conference, the police chief said Hale was transgender. “We have a map drawn out of how this was all going to take place.” Hale had drawn a detailed map of the school, including potential entry points, and conducted surveillance of the building before carrying out the massacre, authorities said. The new video from Officer Rex Engelbert's bodycam shows a woman greeting police outside as they arrive at The Covenant School on Monday. Police response times to school shootings have come under greater scrutiny after the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, in which 70 minutes passed before law enforcement stormed the classroom. Officers climb stairs to the second floor and enter a lobby area.

Police say the Nashville school shooter legally bought seven firearms in recent years and hid the guns from their parents before killing three children and ...

“The Congress has to act,” Mr. Hale did use male pronouns on a social media profile.” Later on Tuesday, at the news conference, Mr. Later in the day, the police chief said Hale was transgender. After the news conference, Aaron declined to elaborate on how Hale identified. We always want to get there in two or three minutes,” he said, adding that traffic was “locked down” at the time. As officers were approaching the building, there was gunfire going off,” Mr. Police said they got the call about a shooter at 10:13 a.m. Police response times to school shootings have come under greater scrutiny after the attack in Uvalde, Texas, in which 70 minutes passed before law enforcement stormed the classroom. Police spokesperson Brooke Reese said Hale bought the guns between October 2020 and June 2022. The suspect, Audrey Hale, 28, was a former student at the school. If police had been told that Hale was suicidal or homicidal, “then we would have tried to get those weapons,” Mr. The shooter had drawn a detailed map of the school, including potential entry points, and conducted surveillance of the building before carrying out the massacre, authorities said.

Six people were killed at a small, private Christian school just south of downtown Nashville on March 27 after a shooter opened fire inside the building of ...

Police said the shooter had made a detailed map of the school and conducted surveillance of the building before carrying out the massacre. Two of the officers opened fire in response and fatally struck Hale at about 10:27 a.m., police said. Chief Drake said officers found writings that detailed the plan to attack the school and potentially other locations. Investigators were sent to the shooter's home shortly after Hale was killed, police said. Mass shootings are defined as more than four people dying, not including the perpetrator, according to a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University, in addition to other AP reporting: Aaron, the police spokesperson. Police said on March 28 that Hale had legally A team of five Nashville police officers entered the school after the initial call, said Mr. Police received a call about an active shooter at The Covenant School — a Presbyterian school — around 10:15 a.m. After the news conference, police spokesperson Don Aaron declined to elaborate on how Hale identified. Police officers also killed the shooter. Authorities said that about 15 minutes after that call to police, the shooter was dead.

US News: The Nashville police said that the 28-year-old former student who shot six people dead in a Christian grade school had purchased seven guns ahead ...

The school in a statement said, "Our community is heartbroken. The suspect is seen stalking through empty hallways as emergency lights flash, brandishing a rifle and entering rooms, seemingly looking for people. In a statement given to ABC News, he said the family was heartbroken. Last year saw 303 such incidents, the highest of any year in the database, which goes back to 1970. The three 9-year-old children who were killed were identified as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney. Drake said it appeared that the suspect had some sort of training with firearms.

The violence at The Covenant School in the United States was the latest school shooting to roil the nation and was planned carefully, said Nashville police.

The website of The Covenant School, a Presbyterian school founded in 2001, lists a Katherine Koonce as the head of the school. Later in the day, the police chief said Hale was transgender. At about 10.24, officers engaged the suspect, the chief said during the news conference. Police identified Engelbert, a four-year member of the force, and Michael Collazo, a nine-year member, as the officers who fatally shot Hale. In Nashville, police said about eight minutes passed from the initial call to when officers arrived at the scene. The video shows officers climbing stairs to the second floor and entering a lobby area, followed by a barrage of gunfire and an officer yelling twice: “Get your hands away from the gun.” Then the shooter is shown motionless on the floor. In an interview with NBC News on Monday, Drake said investigators don’t know what drove Hale but believe the shooter had “some resentment for having to go to that school.” Drake, at Tuesday’s news conference, described “several different writings by Hale” that mention other locations and The Covenant School. On Tuesday night, Tennessee’s governor said one of the victims, 61-year-old substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, was a close friend of his wife, Maria, and that the two had been scheduled to have dinner after Peak taught that day. Police spokesperson Brooke Reese said Hale bought the guns between October 2020 and June 2022. The suspect, Audrey Hale, 28, was a former student at the school. The shooter had drawn a detailed map of the school, including potential entry points, and conducted surveillance of the building before carrying out the massacre, authorities said.