to be. there were pictures shown of the students walking out holding hands and the children and student population here is young aged. preschool to 6th grade. so that s a young population. many were shielded from what took place. i believe they understood there was some chaos, but not necessarily understanding what happened here until after the events occurred. but you can imagine being such a tight-knit community, the fear and the anxiety that comes with what took place here and then imagine the love that this community is being shown and not just specific schools, but every other school in nashville, and obviously, every other school around the country and the world because yet again, we re hearing about children and adults that
nbc news just1c dilanian. retired special agent in charge and former hostage negotiator for theçó atf, jim kavanaghe1 w lives in the nashville area, and former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst barbara mcquade, i should say the president has spoken on this.lp he says it s sick and called for congress to ban assault rifles. gabe, i wantjt■ begin with you. no word on the details or the ages of the victims but we are learning a little bit more about this shooter. bring us up to s6%9 good afternoon, andq yes, weo are learning more about the shooter and other details. nashville police chief just saying that this incident has moved him to tears seeing those young victimsç u()q out of tha elementarye2r school. and another detail that stuck out to e1me, authorities say so of the children, this isçó elementary school, pre-k to 6th grade, some of the children evacuated the school on their çó own. you can only imagine the horror
what s really curious about this is that this was, we don t know her name, but that this was a female who was involved in this shooting. we remember back to 1979, brenda spencer, when she opened fire at cleveland elementary school from across the street and killed a couple of people, saying she did not want to go to school because it was monday and she didn t like monday, the boom town rats immortalized in their song. but there have been a number of shootings involving female shooters over the years but very rare something like this happens, sandra. sandra: and one can assume based on the description, although can t assume anything at this point, it s a female teen shooter that the grade that the grade of this school goes up to 6th grade, kindergarten through 6th grade. you would not quite have teenagers in the 6th grade yet, we don t know if this would have been a student in the 6th grade. but all they can do is describe what they know so far and she is
you know, how long have you and i been listening to these types of awful stories? school shooting after school shooting. sandy hook was the first year you and i werei] here at nbc ne. and it is just devastating when you hear the first reports of these young children, and again, we don t know how young in particular these are, but this is an elementary school, just up to 6th grade, and you heard it from the police chief responding, very emotionally to the news that three of them were dead. again, three children killed in this awfulq/z school shooting, another three staff members. we don t have the ç>#j of any of them rightu but there will be plenty of questions as to how this all unfolded, and again, for those viewers who may just be joining us, this 28-year-old shooter has beenxd identified. authorities are now apparently at her home in the nashville area, and that is typically of these types of investigations, they re going to be, you know,
they also received two adults at their adult emergency department, both adults were pronounced dead and it s still unclear whether these were teachers, whether these were administrators, but again, three children and two adults and the children most likely very young. this was a school that served pre-k through 6th grade. we are talking about an elementary school here, just a shock happening at a christian school, small private christian school in an upscale community of nashville, john. sandra: jonathan, we are at the point now, we are leaning heavily on getting new information from this press briefing. as you can imagine, this is at the point where they are trying to get all their ducks in a row, gather any information they have at this moment in time to obviously confirm the number of deaths, on the screen, three children have perished, two adults dead in this nashville school shooting.