. here is the covenant school at covenant presbyterian church serves pre k to sixth graders. and so three of those six who were killed by that 28 year old shooter, of course, our children . we re talking about young children here. were murdered inside their school, which is inside of a church. now some of the new information that we learned from the police chief there was again as you said, this is a 28 year old white female who they say does live in the nashville area. the chief said that there was a car that helped lead them to identifying that suspect and noting that it one point, although they are still looking into this and investigating this perhaps she had attended the school again. a 28 year old woman. they re still trying to investigate. earlier today, we were told that there is video from the school that they are going through trying to learn more about what happened, said that she did try and force her way into a side door. now
Inside the school on any given day. talk about your interaction with the community and some of these families and parents of these students there today. yes. thank you. thank you for having me and thank you for, um, covering this today. it s a it s a terrible day here in nashville. um yeah. you hit it on the head. this is a small school. that is that is part of the community that i represent. and um i would. i would wager that everybody in the neighborhood either has attended church there or has a as a child at school or has a friend that has a college school and just receiving the phone calls from from my constituents asking if i knew anything that they hadn t heard if their kid was okay is excuse me. um is not something you wanna you wanna you want to have to field calls for? i ve got three young kids, um all within the ages of that school. um and you know, there is a very
Who s going to do this? how could we? you know how could we have stopped them from getting access to a gun? these are questions. we re going to have to ask in this situation again. so while statistically it um it s not common for a woman to do this. it wasn t coming for, you know older asian men to do it. it s um not necessarily. i think we re learning that the things that lead to these horrific incidents transcend race and age and have more to do with mental health, of course, and with access to firearms. but while it s shocking, we don t know if it s not in line with what we ve seen before, just yet because we don t know enough about the individual. as you re speaking. we re looking at new photos that we re getting in from outside of the covenant school, their children on school busses surrounded by police. this one gets me all the time, children and walking arm and arm and see just how young they are being escorted out of the school and for safety drills. these are images that typic
As their reality every single day. um it s funny because i actually shifted focus from this mass shooting to work on a long term story about gun violence exposure near schools in the most underserved areas in my hometown of richmond, california , and i talked to teams all the time, mainly about community violence and how they feel about you know the role that social media plays and how they fear for themselves and their friends when they re going to and from school, and at the same time. these are the same folks in the lockdown generation. you know so well. they re dealing with things outside. they go into school, and they re hearing about another shooting and maybe a suburban place, but it s among students who look and have the extreme experiences of them. so i think the kids are doing their best. when i talked to them. they always sound like they really want adults and older generations to get it together. but i would be lying if i didn t say there s a lot of hurt and trauma that s e
Has happened to your community to your home and please take care of those around you. who needs you right now? thank you. thank you, sir. we want to bring in a law enforcement voice into this conversation. joining us now is charles ramsey, a former washington d c police chief. he s also a cnn law enforcement analyst. we also have with a senior law enforcement analyst andrew mccabe, former fbi deputy director. gentlemen thank you both for being with us chief first to you, obviously, the thing that stands out in all the details that we re getting early on in this investigation a 28 year old woman that the police chief says appears to at one point potentially have been a student at the school. first your impressions on that and then also walk us through what an investigation into her potential motive entails. well, i have no idea what the motive is. that s part of the investigation, and i certainly