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The shooter who killed three children and three adult staff members at Covenant School in Nashville in March planned the attack with specific people in mind, according to the shooters’ writings, as Nashville’s Metropolitan Police Department confirmed. The confirmation came after the pages were leaked online.

“I am greatly disturbed by today’s unauthorized release of three pages of writings from the Covenant shooter,” Chief John Drake wrote in a statement, confirming that the writings came from shooter Audrey Hale.

In what appears to be a three-page handwritten note,...

Kelsea Ballerini honored the Nashville shooting victims on Sunday at the 2023 CMT Music Awards. The artist opened the ceremony by sharing their names during the broadcast, paying tribute to students Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, and staff members Cynthia Peak, Katherine Koonce, and Mike Hill.

“I pray — deeply — that closeness and community we feel for the next few hours of music can soon turn into action, like real action, that moves us forward together to create change for the safety of our kids and our loved ones,” said Ballerini.

At 10:13 a.m. Monday, in Nashville, Tennessee police received a call of an active shooter at Covenant School.

The shooter was Audrey Hale, 28, a former student of the school. Hale was assigned female at birth but used he/him pronouns and the name Aiden on various social media platforms.

Surveillance cameras captured Hale wearing camouflage-style pants, a white t-shirt, a black vest and a red hat. They shot out a side door and entered the building with an Ar rifle and pistol, and handgun.

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Body camera footage was released on Tuesday that showed Officer Rex Engelbert searching the first floor of the school before more gunshots were heard on the second floor. Upon entering an atrium, Engelbert sees the shooter standing near a window and fires four times, causing the shooter to fall to the ground.

Another officer, Michael Collazo, fires...

On Monday, the Nashville community was left shocked and grieving after the Metro Nashville Police Department confirmed the identities of six victims killed in a mass shooting at The Covenant School in the Green Hills area of the city. “I have four grandkids here. I mean, I can be thankful, but I am so sad for these parents and kids,” Kathy Thoreson, who lives close enough to have heard the gunfire, told local news affiliate Wkrn. “It’s very tragic. It’s two blocks from our house. It could happen at any school.

Three children and three adult staff members are dead following a school shooting at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday morning. Officials said a suspect — 28-year-old Nashville area resident Audrey Hale — is also dead, and “multiple patients” have been reported following the shooting.

A hospital spokesperson confirmed to Rolling Stone that three pediatric patients with gunshot wounds were taken to Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, where they were pronounced dead after arrival.

The six victims fatally shot by the active shooter at Covenant School,...