nashville. as i said, the students go down to 3 years old up to sixth grade and we re waiting to get more information. they said, you know, inside of this hour, we ll learn more. stay with us. we ll get another update. i would ascertain that they have information that they are almost ready to reveal and they re likely making sure that everyone has been notified before they reveal this other information. we learned quite a bit here about the suspect in this case. a 28-year-old white woman who they believe went to the school. we ll get more information on that. they said she had two assault-type rifles and a handgun with her. she was killed on the scene of this horrific killing at this beautiful christian school that is up a long windy road. it s not this easy to get into this complex if you take a look at it from the other side. it s up a long windy road. he also said interestingly that her car, her vehicle, the vehicle they found nearby, gave us a clue to what she was. i don
home now in nashville. she s accused of killing three children and three adults at the covenant school, a christian academy just outside of nashville. so let s check back in with nicole valdes in nashville. she was a reporter there for years and knows the area very well. nicole, give us a little sense of this school and the community and what it feels like there today having covered this area for so long? sure. we re talking about a private christian school, preschool through sixth grade. you re talking about students anywhere from 4 to 12 years old inside this school when this happens. some may be too young to understand what was going on at the heat of this things. those are the possible ages of the victims that we know of. three children killed in this school. officials were adamant that they re not ready to release the
so there s no room to joke in that circumstance at all. certainly not from the president of the united states. he did then get around to mentioning this. i understand that his wife, the first lady, was speaking at a different event and she also did address it. this is what he said when he talked about what happened in nashville. this situation reportedly had two assault weapons and a pistol, two ak-47s. i call on congress again to pass my assault weapons ban. it s about time that we begin to make some more progress. there s more to learn. i just want to send my concern about hearts out to so many parents. martha: what do you make of that part of what he said today, governor? well, look, it s not about playing politics. unfortunately the second worst
that they re just getting all of this horrible news. but it started this morning with this dispatch from police as they started to get word that something horrible was unfolding at the covenant school. metro midtown is on a school shooting. multiple victims down. we re not taking metro radio traffic at this time. sounds like there s multiple victims inside the school. shooter is down as well. nicole valdez is in nashville. she was a local reporter for years, knows the area well. she s now with fox weather. nicole, i just want to reiterate that what we learned a moment ago is that they believe she was a student at this school at one point. we don t know if she went through through or obviously what we re no doubt we ll learn more about in terms of the
so that really paints a picture here as to how rare this is. this 28-year-old woman who the police chief says did attend this school at one point. they re now at her home. probably digging through her belongings trying to sort out what may have possessed or motivated this woman to do this at 10:00 a.m. on a monday morning, this is something that a lot of people here are struggling to understand. this community particularly, not just nashville, we re talking about a suburb of the city of nashville here, green hills, very small, but tight-knit committee here. seems to be as well as you re talking about the religious community. knowing this a private christian school. that s lot being discussed today. i want to emphasize police and really what they focused on in the last press briefing. they emphasized their quick response.