Nashville shooting Live updates | Police, probing a motive, have a 'theory'
Law enforcement officers stand outside of Woodmont Baptist Church while waiting for children to be reunited with their families after a mass shooting at The Covenant School on March 27, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. Photograph: (AFP)
Three children were among the six killed at a school in the US city of Nashville, Tennessee. The 28-year-old shooting suspect, who was an ex-student of the school, was later gunned down by the police officers before he could wreck more carnage.Key Updates
28 Mar 2023, 3:59 PM (IST)
According to media reports, Hale sent a farewell Instagram message to a former middle school basketball teammate named Averianna Patton before embarking upon the killing rampage.
“I’m planning to die today. THIS IS NOT A JOKE!!!! You’ll probably hear about me on the news after I die," wrote Hale, adding, “See you again in another life.”
28 Mar 2023, 2:38 PM (IST)
"We are grieving tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our school and church. We are focused on loving our students, our families, our faculty and staff and beginning the process of healing," said the school in a statement.
It added that the school was 'prioritising' the well-being of the community despite lot of speculations swirling around the matter.
28 Mar 2023, 2:04 PM (IST)
The motive for the Nashville school shooting is still not known. But the police say they have a "theory", but didn't divulge any details. They are questioning the shooter's father and also searching their house. Audrey Hale graduated from Nossi College of Art & Design in Nashville last year and was reportedly working as a freelance graphic designer.
28 Mar 2023, 1:47 PM (IST)
School shootings in the US have taken the lives of 175 people since the 1999 Columbine High School massacre. Fifteen such incidents have happened since 1999, with kids of all ages losing their lives. The figures were reached at through a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University.
A mass shooting is normally described as one which leads to the death of four or more people.
28 Mar 2023, 1:34 PM (IST)
In the aftermath of the deadly Nashville shooting where six people were killed including three nine-year-olds, a section of the US media is trying to conjure a connection to transgender activism. The shooting carried out by 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale, a transgender person, according to the authorities, comes days ahead of the so-called 'Trans Day of Vengeance', which was purported to be held on April 1.
28 Mar 2023, 12:05 PM (IST)
A survivor of last year's Highland Park parade mass attack interrupted the television coverage of a network on Monday in the aftermath of the deadly Nashville school shooting. The woman identified as an activist named Ashbey Beasley went up to the mics and camera and demanded the lawmakers pass gun control legislation while asking if the media was not tired of covering the shootings.
28 Mar 2023, 11:00 AM (IST)
The two police officers who gunned down school shooting suspect Audrey Hale have been identified as Officer Rex Englebert and Officer Michael Collazo, a press release from the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) stated.
Englebert is a four-year veteran with MNPD and Collazo has been with the department for nine years, police said.
Hale was fatally shot on the second floor in a common area of the school where the shooter had been opening fire through a window at arriving police cars, the release said.
28 Mar 2023, 10:59 AM (IST)
The Nashville city's police chief said that the shooter who killed six people at a school on Monday had planned to attack several different locations.
The suspect left behind a manifesto that "indicates that there was going to be shootings at multiple locations, and the school was one of them," Nashville Chief of Police John Drake told NBC News in an interview, adding that officials also recovered a map of the school which detailed its surveillance and entry points.
28 Mar 2023, 10:58 AM (IST)
Nashville police have identified a trans person as the shooter behind America's latest school shooting attack that killed three children and three adults at a Nashville-based educational institution. As per reports, the shooter left behind a map and a manifesto relating to the attack. The items were revealed upon a search of the suspect's house. As per local police chief John Drake, the shooter has been identified as a 28-year-old "transgender" resident of Nashville.
28 Mar 2023, 10:57 AM (IST)
At least three children and three adults were killed on Monday (March 27) in yet another shooting incident in the United States. The incident took place at a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee. The local fire department said that officials were rushed to the site.
The Nashville Fire Department said on Twitter: "We are responding to an active aggressor at 33 Burton Hills Blvd Covenant School. We can confirm we have multiple patients."