Nashville shooting latest updates: Police release surveillance video from school as victims identified

The footage shared on Twitter by Metro Nashville Police showed the shooter, identified as Audrey Elizabeth Hale, 28, arriving in a Honda Fit car, parking, and then proceeding towards the school.

Hale is seen shooting down the glass double doorway of the school before opening fire on students and staff.

Footage also shows Hale walking around the school, around different hallways armed with an assault rifle, coming in and out of different rooms.

Police said: “Hale drove to Covenant Church/School in her Honda Fit this morning, parked, and shot her way into the building. She was armed with 2 assault-type guns and a 9-millimetre pistol.”

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A Nashville reporter has described how her mother-in-law was working at The Covenant School when a shooter opened fire, killing three adults and three children.

Hannah McDonald of NewsChannel 5 Nashville said during a broadcast that her mother-in-law “was outside of the school and she heard gunshots, she had just gotten back from her break”.

She said that her mother-in-law worked at the front desk at the school.

Alex Apple, the husband of Ms McDonald, tweeted that his mother had been at the school when the shooting took place.

“This one hits close to home,” he said. “My mom has worked at The Covenant School for nearly two decades. Even my prayers feel inadequate right now.”

Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all aged 9, were fatally shot by Audrey Hale.

The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee where a shooter killed three children and three adults said it was in shock.

In a statement to WSMV Nashville, the school said: “Our community is heartbroken. We are grieving tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our school and church. We are focused on loving our students, our families, our faculty and staff and beginning the process of healing.

“Law enforcement is conducting its investigation, and while we understand there is a lot of interest and there will be a lot of discussion about and speculation surrounding what happened, we will continue to prioritize the well-being of our community.

“We appreciate the outpouring of support we have received, and we are tremendously grateful to the first responders who acted quickly to protect our students, faculty and staff.

“We ask for privacy as our community grapples with this terrible tragedy — for our students, parents, faculty and staff.”

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Audrey hale, 28, killed three children and three adults in the shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville on Monday morning.

“There’s some belief that there was some resentment for having to go to that school,” Police Chief John Drake told Lester Holt of NBC News. “Don’t have all the details to that just yet and that’s why this incident occurred.”

The police chief said that the shooter had not appeared to target any individuals at the school.

“She targeted random students in the school … whoever she came in contact with, she fired rounds,” Chief Drake said.

Victim Hallie Scruggs, 9, was the daughter of Covenant Presbyterian Church’s senior pastor, Chad Scruggs, the Nashville Presbytery confirmed to CBS News.

Police have identified Hallie along with two other children, Evelyn Dieckhaus and William Kinney, also both 9, who were killed by the gunman at the Covenant School on Monday morning.

The adults who were killed have been named as Cynthia Peak, 61, Katherine Koonce, 60, and Mike Hill, 61.

Hill worked as a custodian at the school, Peak was a substitute teacher and Koonce is listed as head of school on the school’s website.

“We are failing our children. Guns are now the leading cause of death for children in the U.S. Michelle and I mourn with the students and families of the Covenant School today, “ the former president tweeted.