Nashville shooting latest news: Audrey Hale used secret gun cache in shooting captured on police bodycam

Monday’s attack was America’s 129th mass shooting in 2023, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive.

Here’s Kate Plummer with a look at the history of such atrocities in the city of Tennessee and the state of gun control.

Here’s our full report on yesterday’s atrocity in the Nashville suburb of Green Hills.

The shooting comes as the US is recovering from a spate of recent school gun violence incidents, including last year’s mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, a first grader who shot his teacher in Virginia, and a Shooting in Denver, Colorado, in which two school administrators were injured.

The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department has released a six-minute video on YouTube consisting of bodycam footage of two officers, Rex Engelbert and Michael Collazo, who were part of the team that entered this school yesterday to investigate the threat posed by Audrey Hale “neutralize”.

Be warned, the video is extremely intense if not to say harrowing as the screenshot below shows.

Here’s the latest from Rachel Sharp.

The survivor of a July 4 mass shooting outside of Chicago rushed to the scene of the latest such tragedy in Nashville on Monday and expressed disbelief that another had happened.

“Are you kidding me right now?” Ashbey tells Beasley The Chicago Tribune over the phone as she drove to the scene of the Covenant School shooting, and later spoke for millions when she angrily asked the assembled reporters attending Chief Drake’s press conference, “Aren’t you tired of covering this? “

Beasley had stopped in Nashville on her way back from her 12th trip to Washington since the Highland Park tragedy to lobby members of Congress to pass a federal ban on assault weapons.

Peak, 61, a substitute teacher at The Covenant School who was shot dead by Audrey Hale on Monday, was a close friend of Bill Lee’s wife Maria Lee.

“What happened at Covenant School was an unimaginable tragedy,” Mr Lee said in a video released Tuesday night.

“Like many of you, I have experienced tragedy in my own life and I have lived the day after that tragedy. I woke up this morning with a very familiar feeling, and I realize that many Tennesseans today are feeling exactly the same thing—the emptiness, the lack of understanding, the desperate need for answers, and the desperate need for hope.

“All of Tennessee was hurt yesterday, but some parents woke up without kids, kids woke up without parents and teachers, and spouses woke up without loved ones.

“Maria woke up this morning without one of her best friends, Cindy Peak.”

Students Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all nine, died in the incident, as did principal Katherine Koonce, 60, and staff Cynthia Peak and Mike Hill, both 61.

“We are going through a very difficult moment. I understand that there is pain. I understand the desperation of having answers, of assigning blame, of arguing about a solution that could prevent this terrible tragedy,” he added.

“There will come a time when you have to wonder how a person could do that. There will come a time to discuss and debate politics.

“But this is not the time for hate or anger. It doesn’t solve or heal. All are hurt, and we remember that when we mourn and walk together, we honor the lost.

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Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney were the nine-year-old children who were killed.