Thread: Nashville school shooting: 6 killed including 3 students, shooter dead

A 28-year-old woman who was a former student at the Nashville Christian school was identified as the shooter

A shooting at a Tennessee private Christian grade school left three students and three adults dead Monday and the shooter was killed by police, authorities said.

The victims were killed in the attack at the Covenant School, authorities said. Nashville police say officers engaged with and killed the shooter, identified as a 28-year-old female carrying two "assault-type rifles" and a handgun.

The female, who was only identified as a Nashville resident, was killed by police just before 10:30 a.m. local time.

"At one point she was a student at that school," Nashville police Chief John Drake said. "There was a vehicle nearby that gave us a clue as to who she was."

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Police say the shooter entered the building through a side door before climbing stairs to the second floor, where she then opened fire. They don't believe she was wearing any body armor, authorities said.

Officials at the medical center say three young students were transported to Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt with gunshot wounds. All three were pronounced dead after arrival. Three more adults were also pronounced dead following the attack. All three were staff at the school.

Law enforcement were working to contact the families of victims, none of whom have been publicly identified. Police have yet to establish any connection the shooter may have had with the school.

"Right now I will refrain from saying the ages, other than to say, I was literally moved to tears to see this and the kids as they were being ushered out of the building," Drake said. Officials previously established a reunification center nearby where students inside the school were transported in the aftermath of the shooting.

Covenant School is a private Christian institution for students up to 6th grade, according to its website.

"My heart breaks with news of the school shooting at The Covenant School this morning," Rev. Mark Spalding of the Diocese of Nashville said in a statement. Let us pray for the victims, their families, and the Covenant Presbyterian community."

"We are responding to an active aggressor at 33 Burton Hills Blvd Covenant School. We can confirm we have multiple patients," the Nashville Fire Department said Monday. "Parents coming to the school should go to 20 Burton Hills at this time, this is an active scene," the statement continued.

The Metro Nashville PD confirmed the shooter's death in a statement, adding that the school was already working on reunifying parents and children a safe distance away from the Burton Hills Blvd the school is on.

"An active shooter event has taken place at Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, on Burton Hills Dr. The shooter was engaged by MNPD and is dead. Student reunification with parents is at Woodmont Baptist Church, 2100 Woodmont Blvd.," the department wrote in a statement.

The only reported injury following the attack was an officer who suffered a glass wound to his hand.

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Horrible.

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Police Say Christian School Killer Is Transgender - Todd Starnes

Will they call it a 'Hate Crime' which it is against a christian school. They would if it were the other way around

Originally Posted by Cardinal TT

Will they call it a 'Hate Crime' which it is against a christian school. They would if it were the other way around

Not only that, let's just see how they treat it period her being transgender.

A 28-year old walking into a school and killing three small children, that's pure evil. Same category as Anders Behring Breivik.

Be sure to click on the right arrow on the pic to see the Twitter comments about gender.

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