March 27 is *** day that I will never forget. 14 minutes of terror inside the covenant school coming to an end at the hands of Metropolitan National Police Officers. I really had no business being where I was. Officer Rex Engelberg says it was by chance he was near the school outside his precinct. When the 1st 911 call came in. You can call it fate or God or whatever you want. But uh there I can't count on both my hands, the irregularities that put me in that position. Metro police blaring alarms and chaos. Ebert's body camera capturing the moment. *** group of five officers raced down hallways decorated with children's artwork. We began to receive gunfire from *** second floor window as officers were inside searching for that individual door to door with me. This is their desperate search for *** shooter armed with three guns and showing no signs of stopping along the way. Grim discoveries. All of us stepped over *** victim. Um I to this day don't know how I did that morally, but training is what kicked in. They followed their senses, an acrid odor, the smell of gunpowder was in the air. Then *** chilling sound. We heard another shot and it so it told us that the shooter was to our right once we got Near the shooter and the shooter was neutralised. Investigators say Audrey Hale fired 152 rounds from start to finish killing three innocent Children and three school employees. The violence horrifying the nation and following these officers home, there's obviously been loss of sleep. Children hugged more than normal just over *** week since the shooting officer seizing from the home of the shooter, *** suicide note weapons ammo, several journals and yearbooks from the covenant school. As investigators continue to determine *** motive for the attack described as calculated and planned. The young survivors of this mass shooting are leaning on their faith. They believe that their classmate is going to heaven that they're in *** better place. They're not hurting the ones that were hurting the most was us.
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Police find 2023 Nashville school shooter sought notoriety, hid mental health from medical providers
The shooter behind the fatal 2023 Nashville elementary school shooting that left six people dead, including three children, had been planning the attack for years while hiding their mental health issues from medical providers and hoping the carnage would bring notoriety and fame, a new report released Wednesday reveals.Video above: Nashville police officers who responded to school shooting speak outThe nearly 50-page investigative case summary by Metro Nashville Police closes the agency's probe into The Covenant School shooting.The investigation found that no manifesto existed. Instead, the shooter, Audrey Hale, left behind “a series of notebooks, art composition books, and media files created by Hale documenting her planning and preparation for the attack, the events in her life that motivated her to commit the attack, and her hopes regarding the outcome of the attack,” police determined.The report says Hale researched other shooting locations, including highly traveled roads and shopping malls. By December 2018, Hale also began planning an attack at a different middle school, the report says.During the March 2023 shooting at the private, Christian school, those killed were Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all 9 years old, alongside Cynthia Peak, 61; Katherine Koonce, 60; and Mike Hill, 61.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. —
The shooter behind the fatal 2023 Nashville elementary school shooting that left six people dead, including three children, had been planning the attack for years while hiding their mental health issues from medical providers and hoping the carnage would bring notoriety and fame, a new report released Wednesday reveals.
Video above: Nashville police officers who responded to school shooting speak out
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The nearly 50-page investigative case summary by Metro Nashville Police closes the agency's probe into The Covenant School shooting.
The investigation found that no manifesto existed. Instead, the shooter, Audrey Hale, left behind “a series of notebooks, art composition books, and media files created by Hale documenting her planning and preparation for the attack, the events in her life that motivated her to commit the attack, and her hopes regarding the outcome of the attack,” police determined.
The report says Hale researched other shooting locations, including highly traveled roads and shopping malls. By December 2018, Hale also began planning an attack at a different middle school, the report says.
During the March 2023 shooting at the private, Christian school, those killed were Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all 9 years old, alongside Cynthia Peak, 61; Katherine Koonce, 60; and Mike Hill, 61.
