NASHVILLE, Tennessee - Video released on Tuesday showed Nashville, Tennessee, police officers storming a private Christian grade school on Monday before confronting and fatally shootingThe six minutes of harrowing footage, edited together from the body-worn cameras of two responding officers and released by the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, showed officers clearing several first-floor classrooms before heading upstairs to the second floor as gunfire is heard.
Monday’s violence marked the 90th school shooting – defined as any incident in which a gun is discharged on school property – in the US this year, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database, a website founded by researcher David Riedman.During a previous press briefing, Metro Nashville police chief John Drake said Hale self-identified as transgender, although Mr Drake offered no further clarity.
Investigators believe Hale harboured “some resentment for having to go to that school” as a child, Mr Drake said, without elaborating. “Through tears we trust that she is in the arms of Jesus who will raise her to life once again,” the statement read.Nashville police began receiving calls about a shooter at 10.13am, spokesman Don Aaron told reporters. The suspect was pronounced dead by 10.27am.The body camera footage showed officers rapidly searching for the shooter, in contrast to
The start of the Nashville police video shows an officer retrieving a rifle from his trunk as a staff member tells him that the school is locked down but that two children are unaccounted for.
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