getting word three children had been rushed to a nearby hospital. they have now all been pronounced dead after arrival from gunshot wounds. police are set to hold a news conference, got an update moments ago, that should be happening near the top of this hour. confirmed the shooter is dead after being engaged by officer on the ground. john: we don t know if there was a school resource officer or the police were the first to respond to the scene, it appears they acted in a way to take the shooter down as quickly as possible. we are still filling in a lot of the details. when you consider this christian academy, again, five miles southwest of nashville on its twitter site, its motto, shepherding minds and celebrating childhood, it s shattered for so many this horrible morning. sandra: the shooter died after being engaged by officer, according to the nashville metro police. they put it out in a statement. it s not immediately clear whether the shooter died by taking his or h
are taken if your little one is behind the glass. we pray for nashville today and for the parents there and all the other schools across the country who watch this, too. and just pray to keep them safe. thank you for watching outnumbered this hour. america reports now. sandra: fox news alert, horrific shooting at a christian elementary school in nashville, three children confirmed to have been killed. hello and welcome, sandra smith in new york. john: john roberts in washington, sandra, not how we hoped to start off the week. local reports saying the shooting began after 10:30 local time this morning when officers were called for an active shooter, enrollment between 195 to 210 students. it s located about five miles southwest of downtown nashville. sandra: then we started
the students and protection of the students. i surely think we should be looking at access to funds to look at security by design for all the schools. this is a private christian school, you know, in a, perhaps just outside the main part of the city, it could be anywhere. as you pointed out earlier, shootings from denver, to florida, to connecticut, no one is immune from this. so i think we need to look more holistically and a solution, and does require how we tighten up, as the last hurdle the shooter would have to get through, what are the physical barriers and put in place in order to protect our children, those treasures of hours. sandra: a new statement out from the mayor, the nashville mayor on the shooting. a tragic morning nashville joined the dreaded long list of communities to experience a school shooting. my heart goes out, he says, to the families of the victims. our entire city stands with you.
deadly tornadoes in mississippi and the federal aid that s going in there. at least 26 people killed in the horrible outbreak of tornadoes over the weekend and then reiterating in the wake of the school shooting, the president s desire for greater gun control as a way to try to address the situation there. sandra, you know, every time one of these happens there is a debate over how best to deal with it. it can be anything from making sure that guns do not get into the hands of people who will go in and do something like this, to making sure that all the doors at schools are locked. but it s a debate the country will have yet again as we sit here in the wake of a tragedy that has killed three young children and three staff members there at the covenant school. sandra: and they are still in the reunification process on the ground there. let s bring in former fbi director chris. after the situation, after the shooter was ultimately killed in
6% of all school shootings happen at private schools, but this type of tragedy, violence can strike anywhere. it absolutely can and what we do know from prior tragedies, the initial report are often wrong. we have reports of lives that have been taken, and unfortunately it s possible the numbers could grow larger. and we don t know how many people were injured. i was listening to the nashville fire scanner and they don t anticipate more ambulances arriving at the hospital. it could mean there are some in the school not viable and not transported, and hopefully they would update as quickly as possible. i would encourage anyone who has a family member, a friend, a child in the school, give them the information where reunification can occur.