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The shooter gained entrance to the school with three firearms, including an assault-style weapon, and was seen on video walking through the hallways and pointing his weapon in the air.

The attack was premeditated and police discovered that Hale had researched a second attack location in Nashville and had detailed maps of the school. Hale’s childhood friend also revealed the shooter sent her disturbing messages just before the attack.

As a heartbroken Nashville community grapples with the mass shooting that claimed the lives of three 9-year-old children and three adults at a private Christian school, police are uncovering more details about the 28-year-old shooter.

The attack marked the 19th shooting at a school or university so far in 2023 that left at least one person wounded, a CNN count shows. It was also the deadliest US school shooting in nearly a year, since the May attack in Uvalde, Texas, left 21 dead.

“I was literally moved to tears to see this and the kids as they were being ushered out of the building,” the police chief said during a Monday news conference.

The victims of the shooting included three 9-year-old students: Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney and Hallie Scruggs, the daughter of lead church pastor Chad Scruggs. 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.

She said she was brought back to that painful moment when her other son was placed on lock up at a nearby school.

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The shooter was “someone that had multiple rounds of ammunition, prepared for confrontation with law enforcement, prepared to do more harm than was actually done,” the police chief said in a news conference.

But Hale, who was under care for an emotional disorder, had legally bought seven firearms that were hidden at home, Drake said. Three of those weapons, including an AR-style rifle, were used in the attack Monday.

They confronted the shooter, who had been shooting through a window at police cars, police said. Two officers then opened fire, killing the shooter at 10:27 a.m., police spokesperson Don Aaron said.

“I was hoping this day would never ever come here in the city. But we will never wait to make entry and to go in and to stop a threat especially when it deals with our children,” Drake said in a Monday news conference.

“This school prepared for this with active shooter training for a reason. We don’t like to think that it will happen to us. Russ Pulley, a Nashville Metropolitan councilman, told CNN that experience taught them that they need to be prepared because of today’s reality.

The head of the school is listed on the website as having gone to school in Nashville atVanderbilt University, as well as obtaining her master’s degree from Georgia State University.

The staff section of Covenant Presbyterian Church’s website was offline when Mike Hill was identified. He was listed as a facilities/ kitchen staff. A close friend of Mike Hill confirmed it to CNN. The police report that Hill was a custodian at the school.

“Our community is heartbroken,” the school said in a statement on Monday. “We are grieving tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our school and church.”

The Covenant School is a private Christian school that teaches preschool through 6th grades, according to its website.

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Nashville Mayor John Cooper is overwhelmed by the thought of the loss of families, of the future lost by children.

Homicide has been found to be a leading cause of death for children in the United States and the overall rate has risen over the course of a decade.

Congress needs to ban assault weapons because it needs to do more to protect schools, according to Biden. The bipartisan solution is very unlikely with a slim Democratic majority in both the Senate and House.

The release of police body camera video on Tuesday from the deadly shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville the day before showed a deliberate and rapid response, one that resulted in officers shooting and killing the assailant within minutes of arriving.

The police response at the school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas last year, which took more than an hour to arrive, was also comparisons to the one that occurred at the school.

In Uvalde, officers discovered the classroom where they thought the man had fired a gun, but the door was not open at the time. They approached the door and tried to get a view of the gunman but could not. As they did so, he began firing through the closed door in their direction with an AR-15-style rifle, striking two officers with shrapnel and preventing them from seeing his position in a pair of classrooms full of students.

Six people — including three children — were killed in the shooting, and the suspected attacker was killed by police within minutes of the first call of an active shooter.

President Biden and others across the U.S. sent messages of sympathy to the families of the victims in the Virginia Tech shooting, which caused calls for Congress to take action to prevent future school tragedies.

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Police have referred to Hale as a “female shooter,” and at an evening news conference added Hale was transgender. When asked if Hale used male pronouns on her account, the spokesperson replied that she did.

There are two missing children in the video from the body cameras of officers Michael Collazo and Rex Engelbert.

She tells him, “The kids are all locked down, but we have two kids that we don’t know where they are.” She says the children are upstairs in the school.

Engelbert and at least two other officers begin searching the school’s first floor as an alarm blares. They looked at some rooms, which appeared to be classrooms. Some doors are locked, and the rooms are dark.

The gunshots grow louder, and Engelbert enters an atrium and encounters the shooter standing near a window. The shooter fell to the ground after being shot four times.

Four and nine year veteran of the force, respectively, are Engelbert and Collazo. The officers shot and killed Hale at 10:27 a.m. — 14 minutes after the first emergency call.

Two officers were trying to make sense of the situation after the shooting, according to Drake. Drake said he had also spoken with Biden, who told him he intended to reach out to the officers too.

Drake said during a Tuesday press briefing that the shooter had legally purchased seven firearms from five local gun dealers. Three of those weapons were used in Monday’s attack.

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“All of Tennessee was hurt yesterday, but some parents woke up without children, children woke up without parents and without teachers, and spouses woke up without their loved ones,” said Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, who also lost a close family friend in the shooting.

The shooter sent a disturbing Instagram message to a childhood friend just before 10 a.m. 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, a Nashville radio host, told CNN she was the shooter’s childhood basketball teammate but they hadn’t spoken in years and is unsure why she received the message. At 10:31 a.m., she called a suicide prevention line as well as the sheriff’s office.

Writings left behind by Hale revealed the attack “was calculated and planned,” police said. The shooter had a drawing of how to enter the building and “assaults that would take place,” Drake said at a Tuesday news conference.

The president of Nossi College of Art and Design told CNN that Hale graduated last year. Hale worked as a freelance graphic designer and a part-time grocery shopper, a LinkedIn profile says.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/us/covenant-school-shooting-nashville-tennessee-wednesday/index.html

Koonce, Lee, Hill, and Cooper say a shooting happened when Collazo shot him with a handgun and he cried “Stop moving!”

Collazo appeared to shoot the person four times with a handgun, yelling “Stop moving!” The officers radioed, “Suspect down!” when they approach the person. Suspect down!”

Sissy Goff, one of Koonce’s friends, went to the reunification center after the shooting and suspected something was wrong when she didn’t see Koonce there.

“Knowing her, she’s so kind and strong and such a voice of reason and just security for people that she would have been there in front handling everything, so I had a feeling,” Goff said.

Peak, a substitute teacher, was going to go over to the Lees’ home for dinner with Tennessee First Lady Maria Lee.

Maria and Cindy Peak were also teachers at the same school, and both have been family friends for decades.

Some of the victims’ families have released statements. Hill was described as a father of seven children and grandfather to 14 who loved to cook and spend time with his family, his family said in a statement obtained by CNN affiliate WSMV.

Nashville will hold a candle lighting on Wednesday night to mourn the victims of the shooting, said Mayor John Cooper. It will take place at One Public Square park at 5:30 p.m. local time.