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Three children, three adults dead after female shooter, 28, opens fire at Covenant School in Nashville – Cops believe she was once a student at the school

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2b1d1d&semi;font-size&colon;15px"><strong>Female former student&comma; 28&comma; armed with two assault rifles and a handgun&comma; kills five in Nashville school massacre<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2b1d1d&semi;font-size&colon;15px"><strong>Three kids and three adults are gunned down at private Christian elementary before police took out shooter <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2b1d1d&semi;font-size&colon;15px"><strong>The shooting took place on Monday at The Covenant School in Nashville <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2b1d1d&semi;font-size&colon;15px"><strong>Nashville Metropolitan Police officers neutralized the sh<&sol;strong>o<strong>oter &&num;8211&semi; Two cops who entered the building&comma; drawn by the direction of the gunfire&comma; encountered the shooter on the second floor and fatally shot her<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2b1d1d&semi;font-size&colon;15px"><strong>It&&num;8217&semi;s unclear what her motive was&comma; but police believe the Nashville resident attended the school at some point <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;03&sol;Covenant-Presbyterian-School-in-Nashville-TN-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-435463" width&equals;"843" height&equals;"544"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Heavily armed woman shot dead three students and three staff members at a small private Christian elementary school in Nashville&comma; TN&comma; early Monday<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>A heavily armed woman shot dead three students and three staff members at a small private Christian elementary school in Nashville&comma; TN&comma; early Monday&period;<br>Officers engaged and killed the shooter at the Covenant School&comma; Nashville police spokesperson Don Aaron said&period; The shooter was a 28-year-old Nashville woman&comma; police said&period; <br>It&&num;8217&semi;s unclear what her motive was&comma; but police believe the Nashville resident was once a student at the school&period; <br>Three children and two adults were taken to Monroe Carell Jr&period; Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt with gunshot wounds&comma; and all five were pronounced dead there&comma; said Craig Boerner&comma; spokesperson for Vanderbilt University Medical Center&period; <br>The sixth victim was not taken to the hospital&comma; Aaron said&period;<br>The shooter was armed with at least two &&num;8220&semi;assault-type rifles&&num;8221&semi; and a handgun&comma; Aaron said&period; Officials were in the process of identifying the shooter and the victims&comma; he said&period;<br>Officials with the FBI and special agents from the Bureau of Alcohol&comma; Tobacco&comma; Firearms and Explosives were on the scene&period; The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said special agents and additional personnel were responding but added there is &&num;8220&semi;no current threat to public safety&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;03&sol;Pupils-from-Covenant-Presbyterian-School-in-Nashville-TN-hold-hands-as-they-are-evacuated-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-435465" width&equals;"842" height&equals;"542"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Pupils from the Covenant School in Nashville&comma; Tenn&period;&comma; hold hands as they are taken to a reunification site at the Woodmont Baptist Church after a shooting at their school&comma; on Monday <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The shooter entered through a side entrance of the school and went to the second floor &&num;8220&semi;firing multiple shots&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Aaron said&period;<br>Police received call of an active shooter at 10&colon;13 a&period;m&period;&comma; Aaron said&period; Officers responded &&num;8220&semi;swiftly&comma;&&num;8221&semi; entered the first floor and began clearing the area&comma; he said&period; They &&num;8220&semi;immediately went to the gunfire&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period;<br>Two of the five officers on the floor opened fire on the shooter and killed her by 10&colon;27 a&period;m&period;&comma; he said&period; She was in a &&num;8220&semi;lobby-type area&comma;&&num;8221&semi; not a classroom&comma; Aaron said&period;<br>Kendra Loney&comma; a spokesperson with Metro Fire&comma; said rescue crews responded and tried to save lives&period;<br>The remaining students were escorted out of the building with faculty and staff&comma; and buses took them to the site where students were being reunited with their parents&comma; Loney said&period; <br>&&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;re sure that they heard the chaos that was surrounding this&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;03&sol;Scenes-from-shooting-at-Covenant-Presbyterian-School-in-Nashville-TN-on-Monday-Mar-27-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-435470" width&equals;"841" height&equals;"535"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Law enforcement officers secure the campus after shooting at the Covenant Presbyterian School in Nashville&comma; TN&comma; on Monday<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The Covenant School is a private school founded in 2001 that serves students in pre-kindergarten through grade six&comma; according to its website&period; On a given day&comma; slightly over 200 students and 42 staff members are at the school&comma; Aaron said&period;<br>The school is on the campus of Covenant Presbyterian Church in the city&&num;8217&semi;s Green Hills neighborhood&comma; about 9 miles southeast of downtown Nashville&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s next door to a Nashville Fire Department station and less than a mile south of Nashville&&num;8217&semi;s largest shopping district&period;<br>Because a church operates the private school&comma; no Nashville police officers were assigned to the building&comma; Aaron said&period; Officers were reviewing video from the school&comma; Aaron said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;03&sol;Scenes-from-shooting-at-Covenant-Presbyterian-School-in-Nashville-TN-on-Monday-Mar-27-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-435471" width&equals;"837" height&equals;"474"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Scenes from shooting at Covenant Presbyterian School in Nashville&comma; TN on Monday&comma; March 27 <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Adrienne Battle&comma; director of Metro Nashville Public Schools&comma; said she was &&num;8220&semi;grieving today over the tragic murder of children and school staff right here in our community&comma;&&num;8221&semi; calling the killings an &&num;8220&semi;unimaginable loss of life&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br>&&num;8220&semi;We don’t know all of the details of how or why this happened&comma; and we may never fully know&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Battle said&period; &&num;8220&semi;At Metro Schools&comma; we have invested considerable resources to strengthen security at our facilities in response to the far too many&comma; far too often instances of school shootings across the nation over the years&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;03&sol;Scenes-from-shooting-at-Covenant-Presbyterian-School-in-Nashville-TN-on-Monday-Mar-27-3&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-435474" width&equals;"837" height&equals;"586"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Children peer out the windows of their school bus as they wait to be driven away from the school after the shooting on Monday morning<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>At the scene&comma; scores of parents and onlookers gathered in a parking lot&comma; awaiting updates&comma; as helicopters circled the area&comma; surrounded by a residential and busy businesses district&period;<br>Parents were lining up in the sanctuary of Woodmont Baptist Church to give first and last names of their children to police&period;<br>Vice Mayor Jim Shulman was in the sanctuary passing out bottled water to parents and family members&period;<br>Officials said children would be arriving on school buses with their teachers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;03&sol;Ambulance-arrives-after-shooting-at-Covenant-Presbyterian-School-in-Nashville-TN-on-Monday-Mar-27-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-435476" width&equals;"840" height&equals;"546"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption">Students run past an ambulance at <strong>The Covenant School run past an ambulance on Monday after a female shooter opened fire&comma; killing three staff members and three students&comma; before being shot by police<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Two officers who entered the building went towards the sound of gunfire and encountered the shooter on the school&&num;8217&semi;s second floor&comma; where they fatally shot her&period;<br>Nashville Police Chief John Drake said initial findings indicate the attacker may have been a former student at the school&period; He said the findings are based on &&num;8220&semi;clues&&num;8221&semi; found inside a nearby parked car&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;03&sol;Parents-wait-for-their-children-after-a-school-shooting-at-Covenant-School-in-Nashville-TN-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-435468" width&equals;"841" height&equals;"631"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Parents wait for their children inside a neighboring church building after a school shooting at Covenant School in&comma; Nashville&comma; TN on Monday <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>At the scene&comma; scores of parents and onlookers gathered in a parking lot&comma; awaiting updates&comma; as helicopters circled the area&comma; surrounded by a residential and busy businesses district&period;<br>Parents were lining up in the sanctuary of Woodmont Baptist Church to give first and last names of their children to police&period;<br>Vice Mayor Jim Shulman was in the sanctuary passing out bottled water to parents and family members&period;<br>Officials said children would be arriving on school buses with their teachers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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