The victims include 9-year-old students and top school official Hale graduated from Nossi College of Art & Design in Nashville last year, the president of the school confirmed to CNN, and a LinkedIn profile says Hale worked as a freelance graphic designer and a part-time grocery shopper. Police are investigating a motive and have a “theory” but are continuing to probe the shooter’s home and have talked with the suspect’s father, Drake said. Three weapons – an AR-style rifle, an AR-style pistol and a handgun – were found. Police believe Hale obtained at least two of the weapons legally, Drake said. When asked for clarification, a spokesperson told CNN Hale used “male pronouns” on a social media profile. Police have referred to Hale as the “female shooter” and at an evening press conference added that Hale was transgender. Police say Hale entered the Covenant school building after shooting out the glass of these doors. A five-member team of police officers heard the gunfire, went to the second floor and fatally shot the suspect, Aaron said. Hale fired multiple shots on the first and second floors of the school, police said. As a private school operated by a church, there was no school resource officer assigned by the city to guard the school, he said. and the shooter was dead at 10:27 a.m., police spokesperson Don Aaron said. The first call about the shooting came in at 10:13 a.m. Hale, armed with three firearms, entered the Covenant School by shooting through a side door, Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake said at a news conference.Īuthorities say the attack unfolded over about 14 minutes. Hale was shot and killed by police during the attack, which was the deadliest school shooting in nearly a year. Police identified the shooter as Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old former student at the school, and called the attack targeted. A shooter who killed three 9-year-old students and three adults at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville Monday had maps of the school, left behind writings and scouted a second possible attack location, police said.

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