Six Dead in Nashville School Shooting

A former female student, 28, of Covenant Christian Academy, in Nashville, Tennessee, killed three children and three adults in a 15 minute shooting spree that ended in an exchange of gunfire that left the shooter dead.

At 10:13 A.M., Monday, police received a 911 emergency call of an active shooter at the private Presbyterian school, about 15 miles outside of Nashville. Within minutes more than a dozen police officers responded and entered the school.


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From bodycam images, the police officers were notified immediately by school administrators that the location of three children were unknown. Within minutes the officers heard shots on the second floor and approached a circular lounge area where the shooter had begun to target first responders who had gathered at the school.

Police confronted the shooter in an empty area where the transgender shooter fired at them. To their credit, the police responded and killed the shooter. Video released by the Nashville Police Department show, the shooter, Audrey Elizabeth Hale, dressed in military style gear, carrying an Automatic rifle, shooting out windows to gain entry and walking through the empty hallways.


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The three children, all 9, who were killed included the Pastor's daughter, Hallie Scruggs, William Kinney, and Emily Dieckhaus, and three staff members, school administrator Katherine Koonce, 60, Cafeteria worker and school janitor, Mike Hill, 61, and substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, 61.

 

Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, Police Chief John Drake said, "During a search of Hale's home, he said, officers recovered a "manifesto" and maps that appeared to include entry points for the school. Police later said they recovered additional material in a car Hale drove to the scene," reported The Washington Post.

The contents of the manifesto have yet to be released although it is likely to be religious in nature and present condemning Christian doctrinal issues involving the prescribed religious viewpoints associated with biblical interpretation of God's ordained sexual orientation and other religious overtones. The other possibility for this person's uncontrollable rage, as she returned to a location 16 years after her attendance, would be some sort of violation she endured during her attendance.


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Nashville police also released information indicating that the Covenant Christian academy may have been a secondary target, as multiple locations and plans were discovered in her home. The initial targets were allegedly dismissed due to high degree of security and least likely chance of creating the carnage she/he was determined to exact.

As mass shootings continue to plague our communities, and the massacre at Uvalde, Texas, in May 2022, still punctuated in the hearts and minds of the public, the others that comprise the unfortunate list of school names, locations and events that are seared in the annals of time and cause pause each time a new name is added, the uproar over second amendment right carry the public for moments and congress falls back into business as usual.

In 2022 America endured 648 mass shootings, including a Virginia Walmart, a Colorado gay nightclub and a Buffalo, NY grocery store. "There have been 129 mass shootings in 2023 so far, which is defined by the Gun Violence Archive as an incident in which four or more victims are shot or killed. These mass shootings have led to 193 deaths and 493 injuries so far this year," ABCnews.com reported.

Finding an inroad that barricades the availability of ammunition by leveeing high taxes, under the umbrella of Public Health and Safety such as taxes on cigarettes. Or we could just sit on the sidelines as more children, more adults, more innocent bystanders are senselessly murdered.


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