Authorities said a shooting at a private Christian grade school in Nashville wounded several people Monday. The suspect is dead after a confrontation with police.
A police spokesperson originally said the shooter was a female, who appeared to be a teen armed with two assault-style rifles. Police have updated the press and said the woman was 28-years-old.
The shooting occurred at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian school for about 200 students from preschool to sixth grade. Students walked to safety Monday, holding hands as they left their school surrounded by police cars, to a nearby church to reunite with their parents.
Police confirmed that three children and three adults were killed in the shooting. The ages of the victims were not released.
The Nashville Fire Department said on Twitter there are “multiple patients” but their conditions were not immediately clear.
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It was also not known whether some of the victims were staff, teachers, or students from The Covenant School, where students walked to safety holding hands to a nearby church to reunited with their parents.
The shooter died after being “engaged by” officers, Metro Nashville Police said in a Twitter post. It was not immediately clear whether the shooter died by suicide or was shot by police.
“An active shooter event has taken place at Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, on Burton Hills Dr. The shooter was engaged by MNPD and is dead,” said MNPD.
The fire department responded to an “active aggressor” but did not specify specifics. Other details about the shooting were not immediately available.
According to the school’s website, the Covenant School was founded as a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church in 2001.
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