'Just unimaginable': Nashville residents reel from school shooting

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Robin Wolfenden was practicing yoga on her balcony on a spring morning in Nashville when she heard the sirens — the sound of first responders rushing to the scene of America's latest school shooting.

Police officers arrive at the Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, after reports of a shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, US March 27, 2023. Metropolitan Nashville Police Department/Handout via REUTERS

"These kids are innocent children," Wolfenden told reporters, worried for her grandsons who are five and eight years old, only a few years younger than the students killed at the Covenant Presbyterian Church-affiliated elementary school on Monday. Melgar was among several parents who brought their young children among the stream of mourners visiting the memorial as the sun set on Tuesday, many of them in tears among the flowers, stuffed toys, and white crosses decorated with blue hearts.

"It definitely hits home for me today," said Stacie Wilford, a nurse at a local medical facility and mother to an eight-year-old at a nearby school."You drop your kids off in the mornings and you don't think that you could get a call like this. It's just devastating. That just -- I can't even fathom."

Despite the rate of gun violence in the country, Lucas said it's still easy to think it won't hit one's own community. She said the shooting made the two women want to do something, even just by bringing flowers to the site of the makeshift memorial at the church property entrance, which was guarded by a police cruiser Tuesday.

 

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