BREAKING NEWS: Nashville Christian School Shooting leaves three children and three adults dead; shooter is also dead; shooter was a 28-year-old woman

BREAKING NEWS: Nashville Christian School Shooting leaves three children and three adults dead; shooter is also dead; shooter was a 28-year-old woman

Three children and three staff members were gunned down at a private Christian school in Tennessee on Monday before the shooter was killed by police, authorities said.

The shooting unfolded at The Covenant School on Burton Hills Boulevard in Nashville where officers “engaged” the attacker, who was described by police as a 28-year-old woman.

The shooter was killed on the school’s second floor, a spokesperson said. She had two “assault-type riles and a handgun,” according to the official.

Students of the school, which serves preschool students through sixth graders, were being bused to Woodmont Baptist Church, two miles away, to be reunited with their parents.

Police said they first got calls about the shooter at 10:13 a.m. CT and Nashville firefighters first reported their personnel were responding to an “active aggressor” at 10:39 a.m. CT.

“The police department response was swift,” police spokesperson Don Aaron told reporters.

“They heard shots coming from the second level. They immediately went to 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.”

Five police officers came upon the shooter and two opened fire on her, Aaron said. The shooter had entered the school through a “side entrance” on the first floor, he added.

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Shooting leaves three children and three adults dead at Christian school in Nashville. The shooter a 28-year-old woman is dead also

A female shooter who appeared to be a teenager fatally shot three students and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville, before she was shot and killed by police, authorities said.

The shooter, who has not been identified, entered the Covenant School via a side door and was armed with at least two assault rifles and a handgun, said Metro Nashville Police spokesperson Don Aaron. She fired multiple shots on the first and second floors of the school before police fatally shot her on the second floor, Aaron said.

The first call on the shooting came in at 10:13 a.m. and the shooter was dead at 10:27 a.m., he said.

One police officer who responded to the scene was wounded from cut glass, he added. There were no other people wounded.

All three of the students were pronounced dead after arrival at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the medical center said.

The shooting garnered a massive police and fire response, and concerned families gathered outside the school to wait for word of their loved ones.

Source:CNN

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