Another school shooting, another seven dead, including the assailant, the place, a Nashville Christian private school, the shooter, a 28-year-old former student.
A shooter who killed three 9-year-old students and three adults at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville Monday had maps of the school, left behind writings and scouted a second possible attack location, police said.
Police identified the shooter as Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old former student at the school, and called the attack targeted. Hale was shot and killed by police during the attack, which was the deadliest school shooting in nearly a year.
Hale, armed with three firearms, entered the Covenant School by shooting through a side door, Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake said at a news conference.
Hale fired multiple shots on the first and second floors of the school, police said. A five-member team of police officers heard the gunfire, went to the second floor and fatally shot the suspect, police spokesperson Don Aaron said earlier Monday.
The first call about the shooting came in at 10:13 a.m. and the shooter was dead 14 minutes later, Aaron said.
Nashville police identified the victims Monday afternoon as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all 9-year-old students at the school; Cynthia Peak, 61, Katherine Koonce, 60, and Mike Hill, 61, who were all working at the school.
Koonce was the head of the school, according to Covenant’s website, which also lists she attended school in Nashville at Vanderbilt University and Trevecca Nazarene University, along with getting her master’s degree from Georgia State University.
Hill was a custodian at the school, according to Aaron. And Peak was working as a substitute teacher at the time of the attack, he said.
Police say the suspect was a student at the school at one point but didn’t elaborate. A vehicle located nearby gave clues as to the shooter’s identity, Drake said.
After the attack, authorities found Hale had “maps drawn of the school in detail, surveillance, entry points,” Drake said.
“We some writings that we’re going over that pertain to this day, the actual incident,” Drake said. “We have a map drawn out of how this was all going to take place.”
So, a targeted and planned attack with two rifles and a handgun, by someone who clearly wasn't afraid to die. Cops didn't hesitate to kill the shooter when they arrived on the scene, none of this Uvalde cops hiding in the halls bullshit, in Tennessee will kill our school shooters, goddammit.
Tennessee Republicans of course are in the process of making it easier to get two rifles and a handgun and ammo so that you could walk into a school and shoot up the place, making it legal to carry a rifle like an AR-15 with a concealed carry permit at age 18.
More guns, at a younger age. That's the solution, of course. We have a generation of kids who will become adults in the age of active shooter drills and in some states, permitless open carry, and the expectation is they will become regular customers of the firearms industry for years to come.
Right up until a bullet end their lives, but that's everyone else's problem for not carrying.
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