protests, a crippling nationwide strike and warnings of civil war ? israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu delays the judicial overall plan that s dividing his country. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to the nashville school shooting and what we know about the woman who pulled the trigger that, according to police, cnn national correspondent dianne gallagher is working the story for us. she s on the scene, diane as we await an update momentarily from police. what do we know at this hour? wolf. we just got a notification from police on the identities of the six people who were killed this morning in the covenant school in nashville, tennessee. i want to read their names to you, um evelyn decals. halle scruggs, william kenny, all of them just nine years old cynthia peak 61. katherine coons, age 60 and mike hill age 61. according to police. all six of them were killed by a 2
revealed by local officials just a little while ago. that s going to see it as diane gallagher. she s watching all of this unfold for us. diane police say this was a targeted attack by the shooter, and they shared some of the clues she left behind. that s right, wolf. they say this was a targeted attack by 28 year old audrey elizabeth hale, who is a resident of the national area and a former student of the covenant school there at covenant presbyterian church. now i want to immediately talk about those six victims because police say that audrey hale shot and killed six people in that church this morning. they got the call around 10 13 am about the shooting. this is a very small school around 200 students that serves preschool. through sixth grade. the three of the victims are children were told to nine year olds and an eight year old who was about to turn nine. evelyn decals halle scruggs, william kenny and then three staff members. cynthia peak age 61, a substitute teacher,
jonathan is at atlantic with the latest. jonathan customer the police are investigating a positive motive also looking at surveillance video from the school they got the call around 1015 this morning. an active shooter at the school, gunfire erupted at this private christian school in nashville upscale green hills community officers of enter the building and ended up clear in the first floor when they heard gunfire from a second-floor lobby area and then headed in that direction. when the officers got the second level they saw a shooter of female, who is firing and the officers engaged her. she was fatally shot by responding police officers. they say it was 828-year-old nashville area woman who at some point had attended the school would serve students in preschool-6 grade. i have notified families of the victims which include three adult staff members and three children survivors of the attack were taken by school bus to a baptist church about 2 miles away to be reunit
hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york and we begin today as we have done so many times, too many times, on this show with a crisis that is uniquely ours, uniquely american. today our country witnessed the 129th mass shooting of this year alone, this one, like so many these days, took place at a school. three young students and three staff members were killed today. they were killed at covenant school a private school in nashville, tennessee, after a shooter walked in and opened fire. after law enforcement engaged with the suspect, the shooter was killed, according to law enforcement. the shooter was a 28-year-old woman. at this hour not much more is known about a potential motive but it is worth noting at the top here how rare this particular specific situation is involving the shooter. according secret service there were only five female shooters out of 173 attacks from 2016 to 2020. in washington, d.c., president joe biden has been made aware of the shooting called it s
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