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
parking lots, gathering at a nearby church and supporting each other in prayer. we just need to embrace those who are grieving because we grieve with them. police identifying 28-year-old audrey hale who may have been a student at the school. authorities say she identified as a transgender woman. investigators finding a woman nearby to identify the shooter. searching her home late today finding maps of the school property and writings that the shooter left behind. this tells you about someone whose total identity is wrapped into committing this mass shooting can t all doors of the school were locked. armed with two assault-style rifles and a handgun and multiple rounds of ammunition, hale gained entry by shooting through one of the doors. moving through the first of second floor, firing multiple shots as she went until she was taking down in the lobby area of the second floor. tonight, president biden addressing the nation after he
we ve also determine there were maps drawn other school in detail of surveillance entry points, etcetera. we know and believe that entry was gained through shooting through one of the doors is how they actually got 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 this afternoon 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
desk. a young lady was unresponsive. it appeared he may have received a gunshot wound to the head. williams arrived and quickly sized up the scene. there are officers already trying to revive her. she s laying down in the lobby area of her apartment complex. that leads from the upper stairs which are the apartments into the garage areas. and then we just started getting into the processing of the crime scene. making sure that we identified as many witnesses and if there is also other victims. but the only obvious victim was crystal. she had been shot in the head. paramedics took her to the hospital. and detective williams got straight to work finding witnesses. this is early morning. there s kids walking to school.