UPDATE | Female shooter kills 3 children, 3 adults in Nashville school attack

At least three children and three adults were killed in a shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday before police shot dead the shooter, who appeared to be a teenage girl.

Police began receiving calls of a shooter at The Covenant School at 10:13 a.m.. Officers could hear gunfire coming from the school’s second floor, Don Aaron, a spokesperson for Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, told reporters.

The shooter had at least two semi-automatic rifles and a handgun, Aaron said. Two officers from a five-member team shot at her in what Aaron described as a lobby area and she was dead by 10:27.

“We do not know who she is at this juncture,” Aaron said.

Deadly mass shootings have become commonplace in the United States, but a female attacker is highly unusual. Only four of the 191 mass shootings since 1966 catalogued by The Violence Project, a nonprofit research center, were carried out by a female attacker.

There have been 89 school shootings – defined as anytime a gun is discharged on school property – in the US so far in 2023, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database, a website founded by researcher David Riedman. Last year saw 303 such incidents, the highest of any year in the database, which goes back to 1970.

Three students were pronounced dead after arriving at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt with gunshot wounds, John Howser, a hospital spokesperson, said in a statement. Three adult staff members were killed by the shooter, police said.

Besides the deceased, no one else was shot, Aaron said.

Students’ parents were told to gather at a nearby church.

The Covenant School, founded in 2001, is a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville with about 200 students, according to the school’s website. The school serves preschool through 6th graders and held an active shooter training program in 2022, WTVF-TV reported.

Note: This article has been updated with the number of deaths and gender of the shooter.

Related Posts

Australia's crop yields could be 4% lower by 2063 if further action is not taken to address climate change.

Australia says cost of climate, disasters surging

Australia’s crop yields could be 4% lower by 2063 if further action is not taken to address climate change. Australia’s government said on Tuesday that a…

Clean energy technologies are projected to deliver a third of the emissions reductions needed by 2030, says the IEA.

Rich nations, China must accelerate race to net zero – global agency

Clean energy technologies are projected to deliver a third of the emissions reductions needed by 2030, says the IEA. Rich and developing nations alike must sharply…

In this handout videograb of footage taken and rel

Fearing ethnic cleansing, Armenians flee Karabakh after the breakaway region’s defeat by Azerbaijan

Armenians fled the long-contested Nagorno-Karabakh region after Azerbaijan defeated its armed forces. Some said they feared ethnic cleansing would follow the fall of the breakaway region. Armenia relies…

(Getty)

Germany’s housing sector slumps into crisis

Hundreds of homeowners-to-be across Germany have been left in the lurch as builders go out of business. A jump in interest rates and material costs has seen…

Watchdog targets Wall Street's private WhatsApp messages

Watchdog targets Wall Street’s private WhatsApp messages

The US securities regulator has collected thousands of staff messages in a probe into Wall Street’s use of private messaging apps. At least 16 firms have disclosed…

Lego designer Samuel Tacchi from France, 34, shows a few designs at the Lego campus in Billund, Denmark.

Lego drops plans to make new blocks from used plastic bottles

Lego designer Samuel Tacchi from France, 34, shows a few designs at the Lego campus in Billund, Denmark. Lego A/S has dropped plans to use recycled…

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *