The Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) announced that a female shooter who opened fire Monday morning at The Covenant Presbyterian School in the Green Hills neighborhood in Nashville is dead after engaging with MNPD.
An active shooter event has taken place at Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, on Burton Hills Dr. The shooter was engaged by MNPD and is dead. Student reunification with parents is at Woodmont Baptist Church, 2100 Woodmont Blvd. pic.twitter.com/vO8p9cj3vx
— Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) March 27, 2023
Among the deceased victims are three children and three adults not including the shooter, according to reports citing information from Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC).
Including the shooter, a total of seven persons were killed.
During a news conference, Nashville PD Public Affairs Director Don Aaron confirmed that the female shooter, who appeared to be “in her teens,” was shot dead at 10:27 a.m. by two MNPD officers. The first call dispatching authorities to the school came in at 10:13 a.m., according to Aaron.
The shooter entered the school through a “side entrance” and made her way from the first floor to the second floor, “firing multiple shots.” The shooter was armed with two “assault-type rifles and a handgun,” Aaron added.
UPDATE: Three kids and two adults are dead after a mass shooting at Covenant School, Vanderbilt confirms. https://t.co/79Ng2zfh1t
— FoxNashville (@FOXNashville) March 27, 2023
A reunification area has been established at Woodmont Baptist Church located at 2100 Woodmont Blvd for parents to meet their children who attend The Covenant School, the Nashville Fire Department announced.
A reunification area has been established at 2100 Woodmont Blvd (Woodmont Baptist Church) for parents to meet their children who attend The Covenant School at 33 Burton Hills Blvd.
— Nashville Fire Dept (@NashvilleFD) March 27, 2023
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A shooting at a Tennessee private Christian grade school left three students and three adults dead, including the head of the school, and the shooter was killed by police, authorities said. The victims were identified by police as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all age 9, Cynthia Peak, 61, Katherine Koonce, 60, and 61-year-old Mike Hill. Koonce was the head of school at Covenant, according to the school’s website. The shooter was identified as Audrey Elizabeth Hale, a Nashville resident and former student of the school who identified as transgender. Authorities say Hale was armed with three guns and left behind a manifesto. Nashville police said it will release more details, including video, soon.
