scene there. apparently there were varying signs, some at one time two kids holding up a sign, and several people ripped up the sign. obviously a really big debate and a protest that has happened there. it has since i think it wound down a short time ago but did play out at the capitol, john. john: you can understand the students are obviously upset about what happened at the covenant school, you know, we learned on monday in the horrific shooting it can happen virtually anywhere in america. but this crowd definitely was very boisterous at times as you pointed out a moment ago as you were going to break, forcing representatives to run the gauntlet as they got into a lobby area of the building. one protestors grabbing on to
engaged the shooter by 10 27, and she was deceased metro nashville police say there is video from the school and the shooting happened on an upper level in the lobby area, not a classroom teacher, texting her daughter from inside the school . she said she was hiding in the closet and that they were shooting all over and that they had potentially tried to get into her room. president joe biden weighing in on the 129th mass shooting of this year, according to data from the gun violence archive. we have to do more to stop gun violence. it s ripping our communities apart, ripping a soulless nation, the very soul of the nation. and we have to do more to protect our school so they aren t turned into prisons. joining me now from washington is chris brown. she is the president of brady united dot org. thank you so much for being with us to discuss yet another deadly school shooting in this country. thanks for having me. now this
into the school calls started coming in at 10 13 am the officers had engaged the shooter by 10 27, and she was deceased. metro nashville police say there is video from the school and the shooting happened on an upper level in the lobby area, not a classroom teacher, texting her daughter from inside the school . she said she was hiding in the closet and that they were shooting all over and that they had potentially tried to get into her room. president joe biden weighing in on the 129th mass shooting of this year, according to data from the gun violence archive. we have to do more to stop gun violence. it s ripping our communities apart, ripping a soulless nation, the very soul of the nation. and we have to do more to protect our school so they aren t turned into prisons. police say the shooter was armed with two are style weapons rifle and a pistol as well as a handgun. they say that at least two of those
a.m. two police officers had reached the upper level and, in their words engaged with the suspect killing her now, according to police, they are trying to determine how that 28 year old woman got inside the school. they say she entered through a side door. but according to the chief of police, all of the doors were locked. she then made her way up to what they call an upper level of the school, which again is inside of a church area. and they say that the shooting itself happened in what they describe as a lobby area. now there was a car on scene that the police chief says helped lead them to identifying the suspect who they have not named at this point, but do say she s a 28 year old white woman from the nashville area who may have at one point been a student at the school. they say that she was armed with two assault style rifles and a handgun. pamela again. three students killed
together. we have we have yet to see one of these school shootings where in the days to come, and i will be sitting here, learning mean more about her intent. yes sadly too often . in these cases you hear about folks that bring up red flags that there were whether on social media posts or things that the suspect may have said to them. commissioner i wanted to get your thoughts on this as we have been speaking nashville pd just put out a tweet confirming that it was two metro nashville police department officers who entered the building and went to the sound of gunfire. they engaged the shooter on the second floor and fatally shot her in what a spokesperson for metro pd described as a lobby area on that second floor. obviously the response time here within 15 minutes of the call coming in officers entered a neutralized the shooter very different response to what we saw and say you, baldy obviously walk us