According to the initial description of what happened, we re told that it happened on an upper level inside. the covenant school, not in a classroom per se. it was described by the metro nashville police media representative don errands as being a lobby of sorts inside that school. it s just a small school. we re talking just over 200 students again from preschool to sixth grade. about 40 to 50 staff members in total, according to metro nashville police there look, they have said that they are still trying again to piece together what happened in this, but they had a five person team and there was a lot of talk about how quickly they were able to respond at 10 13 am call that the shooter was killed after engaging with two police officers by 10 26 am so we re talking about less than 15 minutes from that initial call. they say the shooter was dead,
Classrooms and go to a different area of the church. i m just curious. what are the things you re going to be telling this community and what are they going to be needing as the healing process begins? i mean, you know, go back to what you said. i watched that video as well. and um, as as that was happening. my wife called me and i just broke down in tears. it s unbelievable that our community as communes across the united states are having to deal with this. are we re going to need. we re gonna need answers. we re gonna need some comfort to at least move forward to believe that this can t happen again. we re gonna need to trust that our kids are safe. you you drop your kids off at school. um, you expect to pick him up at the end of the day and you expect the school in the school system to keep them safe? that s a pretty pretty low bar to expect from from from the school system and we ve got to do better. and so
Private school inside a church, the teachers roughly 200 students with 40 to 50 staff. the first call came in at 10 13 am local time, and police say teams cleared the first floor of the building, heard gunshots and then found the shooter as she was opening fire. they say by 10 27 am they had shot and killed her. cnn s dianne gallagher is back with us and diane police now know and have identified the victims, but they are not releasing their names, and they re not releasing the ages, notably of those killed as well. yeah. yeah and that s especially poignant because this school is small, private christian school inside covenant presbyterian church in nashville serves preschool through sixth grader. so regardless, those three children who were killed are very likely. young now three staff members also killed, according to police investigators. still trying to put together exactly what happened here. they say that 28 year old woman from the
Heavily armed gun country and on on the planet. you know it. we have your 18 times more likely to die of firearm inflicted homicide in this country than any other similar, well developed nation on earth. you re almost 44 times more likely to die of a gun inflicted suicide. in the united states of america. than anyplace else. so all of these societal problems are connected in some way, not entirely but in some way to the easy, easy access of unbelievably lethal weapons in this country. 129 mass shootings this year alone, and we are not even into the month of april yet, uh chief. again this is all early, but what we did hear from law enforcement was that the shooter and again she would have graduated from the school or
The covenant school, a small private school inside a church that the chief of police in nashville chief john drake, says appears at one point was apparently a student at that school. they were led to her by what he said was a vehicle parked nearby that they wouldn t go into further detail about her as this investigation is just underway. police say that she killed three adults staffers as well as those three children and students. the first call came in at 10 13 am local time and police say within 15 minutes of the call. the attacker was dead. cnn s dianne gallagher is tracking all the latest developments for us and diane police just gave an update. all of the families of those killed have been notified. they have identified all of the victims, and for now they are not releasing the names. that s right. and also bianna was noticeable that they said they did not want to release the ages, either. we are likely dealing with very young children