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Nashville school shooting: Six killed by female shooter in Tennessee | Nashville school shooting: Six killed by female shooter in Tennessee |
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Watch: Police says the Nashville suspect was a female armed with assault weapons | Watch: Police says the Nashville suspect was a female armed with assault weapons |
Watch: Police says the Nashville suspect was a female armed with assault weapons | Watch: Police says the Nashville suspect was a female armed with assault weapons |
A 28-year-old woman has shot dead six people inside a school in the US city of Nashville. | |
Three of the victims were pupils at the privately run Christian school. The three others were employees. | |
The suspect - believed to be a former pupil - was armed with at least two semi-automatic rifles and a handgun, say police. | |
The shooter was herself shot dead by police after an attack that unfolded over around 14 minutes. | |
All three of the children that died were nine years old. | |
They were named by police as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney. | |
Other victims include Cynthia Peak, 61, Katherine Koonce, 60, and Mike Hill, 61. | |
The shooter was identified by police as Audrey Hale. | |
Police began receiving calls at 10:13 on Monday morning about a shooter at Covenant School. | |
The school teaches pupils from pre-school up until about 12 years old | The school teaches pupils from pre-school up until about 12 years old |
Responding officers reported hearing gunfire coming from the building's second floor, police said. | |
Five officers entered the building and went towards the sound of gunfire. Two found the suspect on the school's second floor and fatally shot her. | |
One officer was injured by broken glass during the operation. | |
The suspect was pronounced dead by 10:27. It is unknown how she entered the campus. | |
Nashville Police Chief John Drake said "clues" found inside a nearby parked car indicate that she may have once attended the school. | |
The school has about 200 students, and teaches pupils from three years old up to around 12. | |
Local media reported that the school implemented an "active shooter" programme last year. | |
Parents have been gathering at a nearby church to be reunited with their children. | |
As buses of children arrived from the school, they hung their heads and hands out of the windows to wave to their parents, according to the Tennessean newspaper. | |
An ambulance stands near Nashville's Covenant School as children are escorted away | |
In a statement, Nashville Mayor John Cooper said the city had "joined the dreaded, long list of communities to experience a school shooting". | |
"My heart goes out to the families of the victims," Mr Cooper added. "Our entire city stands with you." | "My heart goes out to the families of the victims," Mr Cooper added. "Our entire city stands with you." |
President Joe Biden called the shooting a "family's worst nightmare". | President Joe Biden called the shooting a "family's worst nightmare". |
"We have to do more to stop gun violence," he said, calling on Congress to pass gun control laws. | "We have to do more to stop gun violence," he said, calling on Congress to pass gun control laws. |
"It is ripping our communities apart, and ripping the very soul of this nation." | "It is ripping our communities apart, and ripping the very soul of this nation." |
The attack was America's 129th mass shooting of 2023, according to Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that tracks gun violence data. | |
According to data compiled by Education Week, there have been 12 school shootings that have resulted in deaths or injuries in the US this year up until the end of last week. | |
Mass shootings committed by women are far rarer than those committed by men, according to crime statistics. | |
FBI data shows that of 61 mass shootings that took place in 2021 - the last year for which data is available - only one involved a female suspect. Of 345 incidents from 2000-19, only 13 involved female shooters. | |
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