On Monday, a 28-year-old woman armed with two “assault-style rifles and a handgun” fatally shot three children and three adults at Covenant Christian school in Nashville before being shot and killed by police.
Police said the shooter is a former student of the private Christian campus. She entered the Covenant School through a side door and fired multiple shots on the first and second floors of the school, police said. She killed three students and three staff members before being shot and killed by police.
Police engaged with the shooter around 10:28 a.m., 14 minutes after police were first called about the incident, Nashville authorities said in a press conference.
“The police department response was swift,” a police official said. “Officers entered the first story of the school and began clearing it. They heard shots coming from the second level and they went toward the gunfire. When the officers got to the second level, they saw a shooter, a female, who was firing. The officers engaged her, she was fatally shot by responding police officers. ”
