Officers were called to a private Nashville-area elementary school after an active school shooter opened fire Monday morning.
Three students were transported to Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center with gunshot wounds. All three children were pronounced dead after arrival. A spokesperson for Metro Nashville Police later confirmed that three adults also died.
Police say officers engaged with and killed the 28-year-old female shooter who was armed with two assault-style rifles and a handgun on the school’s second floor. The shooter reportedly entered the school through a side door.
Police have yet to publicly identify the shooter or the victims, and have yet to announce a motive or connection between the shooter and the school.
According to its website, Covenant School is a private Christian institution for students up to 6th grade.
“We are responding to an active aggressor at 33 Burton Hills Blvd Covenant School. We can confirm we have multiple patients,” the Nashville Fire Department said Monday.
“Parents coming to the school should go to 20 Burton Hills at this time, this is an active scene,” the statement continued.
According to Fox News, the Metro Nashville PD confirmed the shooter’s death in a statement, adding that the school was already working on reunifying parents and children a safe distance away from the Burton Hills Blvd. the school is on.
“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.,” the department wrote in a statement.
Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn and others responded to the tragedy on Twitter.
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I predict that the Woke media coverage of this event will be determined by the ideology of the shooter. A shooting at a Christian school is, according to the Left, a positive thing. Good and evil are no longer in the Leftist dictionary. Show me a person’s politics and I’ll show you the coverage. Welcome to the woke new world.
Such a sadness that someone would attack children but then anyone enraged enough to shoot strangers is not in control which is another sadness of our society. Praying for all victims, their families, friends and officers that handled the situation and family & friends of the shooter. Pray for society in general that this type of tragedy will cease and people learn how to deal with their frustrations in non violent ways.