US ex-student plans shooting in Nashville school; kills six
Three kids and three adults were killed in the Nashville school shooting; police killed the shooter, 28, an ex-student.
An ex-student killed three kids and three adults at a Christian elementary school in Nashville on Monday, armed with two “assault-style” guns and a firearm after elaborately plotting the bloodbath by drawing a precise map and conducting surveillance of the structure, police said.
Shooting in Nashville school of US kills at least six:
Nashville chief of officer John Drake told NBC News the shooter had plotted to attack some places, revealing a manifesto belonging to the suspect “implies that there was going to be firings at numerous locations, and the school was one of them.”
Drake said investigators thought the shooting arose from “some bitterness” the suspect had “for having to go to that school” as a child.
The firing at the Covenant school in Nashville was the latest in a series of group shootings in a nation that has grown increasingly concerned by school bloodshed.
Police fired and killed the attacker at the Covenant school, connected to the Covenant Presbyterian Church in the Tennessee state capital.
Nashville police recognised the targets as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all nine years of age; Cynthia Peak, a substitute teacher, of age 61; Katherine Koonce, aged 60; and Mike Hill, a keeper, aged 61.
The site of the school, a Presbyterian establishment established in 2001, lists Katherine Koonce as the principal. Her LinkedIn online handle says she has been the head of the school since July 2016.
For Megan Hill, the day’s nightmare unfolded over six long hours, denoted by posts on Facebook in which she identified herself as the niece of one of the targets.
Mourning the “heartbreaking” shooting, Joe Biden repeated his call for Congress to enact significant gun control reform, including an assault weapons prohibition.
“We have to do more to prevent gun violence tearing our communities apart,” the president spoke at the White House. “It’s pulling the soul from this country.”
