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. She fired multiple shots on the first and second floors of the school before police fatally shot her on the second floor, Aaron said.
The Nashville Fire Department tried to provide lifesaving efforts to those with “viable signs of life” and transported three children along with two adults from the scene, Fire spokesperson Kendra Loney said. They did not survive.The incident is the 19th shooting at a school or university so far this year in which at least one person was wounded, according to a CNN tally.
“The beauty of a PreSchool-6th school is in its simplicity and innocence,” the school says on its site. “Students are free to be children – they can feel fully and safely known by our faculty and become leaders under their guidance.”The mass shooting garnered a massive police and fire response, and concerned families gathered outside the school to wait for word of their loved ones.
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. In the video, the children are holding hands and walking in a line down the street.“They started to close down the roads. It happened so fast. I saw a policeman run to the scene and then after a few minutes kids were already crossing,” Reodica said.
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