weaponizing the irs against the political opponents? here to weigh in coming up. sandra: the latest on the school shooting in nashville that left three children and three school workers dead at the hands of a former student. hello, welcome. i m sandra smith in new york. hello. john: hi, sandra, john roberts in washington. this is america reports. horrifying moments captured on school surveillance cameras and police bodycam, showed 28-year-old audrey hale shooting her way through two sets of glass doors and roaming the hallways with an assault rifle and appearing to search for potential victims through unlocked doors. sandra: police immediately ran toward the sound of gunfire, including officers who were able to take out that shooter preventing an even larger tragedy. john: the picturesque community is mourning the loss of life, three 9-year-old children and three school workers taken from their loved ones far too soon. sandra: trey is standing by. john: c.b. cot
and likely learn more. an absolute brutal time as we continue to take this all in. the chief appears to be talking to some folks on the ground there as more details have yet to emerge. john: we ll be hearing from him soon. i thought what was interesting, the chief said all the firearms were legally purchased but the parents believed because of emotional issues that audrey hale was having that she shouldn t have guns, shouldn t have any weapons and they told her to get rid of them. according to the chief, she got rid of all but one, and the parents thought that she had gotten rid of all the other ones but she hadn t, she just secretaried them around the house. but it goes to what trey was talking about, like what is the real solution here is that in order for a gun to kill somebody, it has to have somebody behind the trigger who is in a mental position where
tragedy. john: the picturesque community is mourning the loss of life, three 9-year-old children and three school workers taken from their loved ones far too soon. sandra: trey is standing by. john: c.b. cotton is live in nashville with police chief john drake. c.b. john, thanks so much for having me. we are learning more about this horrific act of violence at the covenant school here in nashville. six lives senselessly taken. right now i m joined by chief john drake of the metro nashville police department. a 35 year veteran of the department. you ve served the last two and a half years as chief. chief drake, thank you for your time today. after yesterday s tragedy unfolded you mentioned finding audrey hale s manifesto. 24 hours later, new insight? we were able to talk to the parents of audrey hale and we
found that she had purchased seven firearms from five local gun stores here in the middle tennessee area. they were all legally purchased. three of those guns were actually used in yesterday s murders of the six victims. we also learned that audrey was receiving help for an emotional disorder but she had not been committed to an institution. her parents believe she had only one weapon, but they knew she couldn t own one, she sold it. they were under the thoughts that she had gotten rid of every weapon she owned but hid weapons inside the home so that is still ongoing. so interesting new development here, chief john drake confirming the shooter had purchased seven firearms at five different stores, legally purchased. yesterday you mentioned this being a targeted shooting.
how do you know this and do you know if audrey was planning to target another school possibly? so right now we don t believe another school was being targeted. we do know we have writings that had the school, and had a diagram of how she would enter the school. the direction that she would go and she had a drawing of what she would wear. she had exactly on what she had drew in the drawings, including the weapons. we believe she just went in and randomly targeted these individuals. wasn t anyone in particular that she was trying to target, just random. have you determined a motive at this point? right now we have not determined any motive. we are looking into all of that. right now we just feel there was she went in, she was emotionally disturbed, she shot the glass out, went in and randomly picked targets as she