November 23, 2024
Police-released video shows the moments the Nashville school shooter drove to the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, parked her car, and shot her way into the building, looking for victims before finding and killing three children and three adults in the latest mass shooting to traumatize the nation.

Police-released video shows the moments the Nashville school shooter drove to the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, parked her car, and shot her way into the building, looking for victims before finding and killing three children and three adults in the latest mass shooting to traumatize the nation.

The violent moments leading up to the shooting show a premeditated attack from several angles. The shooter, identified by police as Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old biological man who identified as a woman, carried two assault-type guns and a 9-millimeter pistol, according to police. Hale was a former student at the school and lived in the Nashville area.

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The video also shows the moments before the suspect shot out the windows of the side doors to the building and gained entry inside. On a sunny Monday morning, Hale drove her Honda Fit to the school, past at least one man who can be seen standing by what appears to be a leafblower in the parking lot, and parked the car. There is no audio in the video, and it is unclear what that man did if/when he heard the first shots.

The victims of the shooting have been identified as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all age 9. The adult victims are Cynthia Peak, 61, Katherine Koonce, 60, and Mike Hill, 61. Pictures released Monday showed the frantic and distressing moments when law enforcement worked to get children and staff to their families safely and efficiently.

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A child weeps while on the bus leaving The Covenant School following a mass shooting at the school in Nashville, Tenn., Monday, March 27, 2023. (Nicole Hester/The Tennessean via AP)
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Children from The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville, Tenn., hold hands as they are taken to a reunification site at the Woodmont Baptist Church after a deadly shooting at their school on Monday, March 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Jonathan Mattise)
Jonathan Mattise/AP

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Students from The Covenant School get off a bus to meet their parents at the reunification site at the Woodmont Baptist Church Monday, March 27, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. following a mass shooting at their school. (Mark Zaleski/The Tennessean via AP)
Mark Zaleski/AP

“When we send our kids to school, we expect them to live, learn, have fun, and come back from that day’s experience. We don’t anticipate things like this,” Nashville Police Chief John Drake said Monday. Drake added that the investigation led law enforcement to Hale’s home, where they found detailed maps of the school, including entry points and a manifesto relating to the day’s shooting.

In Hale’s home, there was another location mentioned in the Nashville area, but due to security restrictions, police said Hale decided not to carry out a shooting at that school, adding that police have a working theory on a motive but are not yet ready to release it.

Once officers arrived at the school and engaged Hale, she fired multiple shots, and two officers of the five-person team returned fire. Hale was fatally shot at 10:27 a.m.

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The Covenant School is a private Christian school for preschool through sixth-grade students. Last year, the school held an active shooter drill, per News Channel 5.

The private school has had an enrollment of between 195 and 210 students in recent years and was founded as a ministry of the Covenant Presbyterian Church in 2001, per the school’s website.

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