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Nashville Covenant School shooting: Multiple victims, shooter dead | |
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Police are responding to a report of multiple people shot at Covenant School in Nashville | |
Multiple people have been injured in a shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, according to local authorities. | Multiple people have been injured in a shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, according to local authorities. |
On Twitter, the city's fire department says there are "multiple patients" from an incident at a local school. | On Twitter, the city's fire department says there are "multiple patients" from an incident at a local school. |
The tweet added that the area remains "an active scene". | The tweet added that the area remains "an active scene". |
Nashville police report they engaged the shooter and the person is now dead. | |
Parents have been asked to meet at a nearby location. | Parents have been asked to meet at a nearby location. |
The Covenant School in Nashville, where the incident took place, is a private Christian school for students in pre-school through the sixth grade, when students are roughly 11 or 12 years old. | |
According to its website, the school has approximately 200 students. Local media reported that it implemented an "active shooter" programme in 2022. | |
In a statement, Tennessee's House Democratic Caucus said that its members are "praying for the children and their families who were shooting victims at the Covenant School". | |
"Our thoughts are with the families of the entire school community and surrounding neighbourhood," Chairman John Ray Clemmons said. | |
Freddie O'Connell, a Nashville mayoral candidate, said that Nashville has now "joined the communities that have experienced a school shooting". | |
According to data compiled by Education Week, there were 12 school shootings in 2023 through 23 March that have resulted in deaths or injuries in the US. | |
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US gun violence | |
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