A 28-year-old woman has killed six people, three of them children, in a shooting at a private Christian grade school in Nashville, Tennesee.
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Emergency services rushed to the Covenant School at 33 Burton Hills Blvd, and the shooter was killed, police said.
The woman was armed with at least two assault rifles and a handgun. The three adult victims were staff members of the school.
Earlier, police said the female shooter “appeared to be in her teens“. According to the police, the 28-year-old white woman was living in Nashville and is understood to have previously been a student at the school.
MNPD spokesperson Don Aaron described the scene in a media briefing: “The shooting happened at 10.13am. The shooting didn’t happen in a classroom.
Officers went to the gunfire. When they got to the second floor and saw the shooter, a female. There was a five-member unit that was on the second floor at the time.
“We know at this point that this shooter is a female and appears to be in her teens. Her identification isn’t confirmed.
“She had two assault rifles and a handgun. She entered the school through a side entrance and went from the first school to the second floor. By 10:27 am, the shooter was dead.”
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