The female gunman was armed with two assault rifles and a pistol before she was gunned down by officers
The killer who murdered three children and three adults in a horror shooting at a school in Nashville has been identified as a 28-year-old woman.
According to Craig Boerner, the victims were pronounced dead upon arrival at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital. Mr Boerner is a spokesperson for Vanderbilt University Medical Centre, which is affiliated with the children's hospital. "Officers went to the gunfire. When they got to the second floor and saw the shooter, a female. There was a five-member unit that was on the second floor at the time.
Other students walked to safety Monday, holding hands as they left their school surrounded by police cars, to a nearby church to be reunited with their parents. The school is a Presbyterian school for about 200 students from preschool through sixth grade, Jozen Reodica heard the police sirens and fire trucks blaring from outside her office building nearby. As her building was placed under lockdown, she took out her phone and recorded the chaos.On WTVF TV, reporter Hannah McDonald said that her mother-in-law works at the front desk at The Covenant School. The woman had stepped outside for a break Monday morning and was coming back when she heard gunshots, McDonald said during a live broadcast.
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