The gunman who killed three children and three adults at a Christian elementary school in Tennessee, in the south of the United States, was under observation before to the incident, according to police.
According to Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake, the gunman, who was fatally shot by police, had made a precise plan of the school that included possible entrance sites.
He named the shooter as Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old former pupil at the institution. Investigators are looking through Hale’s “manifesto” and other documents that he left behind, according to Drake.
According to police spokesperson Don Aaron, the gunman was carrying a pistol and at least two semi-automatic weapons.
According to him, reports reporting a shooter at Nashville’s The Covenant School, a private Presbyterian school, started coming in at 10:13 a.m.
According to Aaron, when police came on the site they could hear gunfire coming from the second story of the school.
He stated that Hale was killed around 10:27 a.m. when two of the five cops on the squad shot the shooter in a lobby.
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Three students, who were all 8 or 9 years old, and three adult staff members were listed as the victims by the police. They claimed that nobody else was shot but those six persons.
The other students were led by police to a neighbouring church, where parents were instructed to assemble.
According to their website, The Covenant School has 200 students in pre-school through sixth grade.
The worst nightmare of a family, President Joseph Biden told reporters in Washington.
Obama encouraged Congress once more to approve more gun control laws.
“To prevent our schools from becoming prisons, we must take extra precautions. I again urge Congress to adopt my assault weapons prohibition “said he.
Jill Biden, the first lady, also discussed the incident on Monday.
“I’m at a loss for words. Also, our kids deserve better “She addressed this in Washington at a National League of Cities convention.
John Cooper, the mayor of Nashville, tweeted “Nashville joined the long, feared list of places that have experienced a school shooting in a horrific morning. My thoughts are with the victims’ families. The people of our city are behind you.”
At Uvalde, Texas, a mass shooting at an elementary school last year resulted in the deaths of 21 individuals.
Other deadly school shootings in the US include a 2018 high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, which left 17 people dead; a 2012 assault at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, which left 26 people dead; and a 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado, which resulted in the deaths of 13.
The Associated Press and Reuters provided some of the material for this story.
