Nashville shooting Live updates | Police, probing a motive, have a 'theory'

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.”

Andy Ogles, the Republican congressman from Tennessee has become the centre of new cycle after his Christmas photo with entire family holding large guns in their hands has gone viral on social media platforms. 

Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a lengthy tweet in the aftermath of the Nashville shooting and called for 'good guys with guns' to protect children and school staff. 

"Children and school staff should always be protected the same way politicians, money, precious stones, and gold are protected, but even more so, by good guys with guns. Thank God for good guys with guns and thank God a good guy with a gun killed the evil mentally deranged shooter today," she tweeted. 

"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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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He urged the people to make a conscious decision while voting and pick candidates who advocate gun violence prevention.

"And if they stand with the gun industry what that means is that is profits over lives. And it's just that simple," he was quoted as saying.

United States President Joe Biden made a bizarre joke about eating ice cream before making a statement on the US school shooting incident that took place at an elementary school in Nashville in which three children and three adults were killed.

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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.  

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Audrey Hale graduated from Nossi College of Art with a degree in illustration and graphic design in 2022. Nossi College of Art & Design is described on its website as "the only college in Tennessee designed specifically as an art school."

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. 

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.

Security camera footage of the suspected Nashville school shooter has been released by the police. The footage shows 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale, the suspected shooter, driving to the school and then carrying out a shooting at The Covenant School. The Nashville shooting left six people dead, including three kids under the age of nine.

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. 

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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." 

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