traversed her way from the first floor to the second floor, firing multiple shots. we now know that there are three students. who were fatally wounded. as well as three adults inside the school. we are working to identify. those victims. including the shooter. a total of seven persons were killed as a result of this morning s incident at the school. by 10 27. the shooter was deceased. the officers had engaged the shooter by 10 27, and she was deceased. again i said the first call came in at 10 13 this morning. we ll have more details to give you later in the morning, chief drake will be here in a bit. now. kendra bologna from nashville fire. fire department crews are dispatched for active shooter incidents as well for medical
those persons were carried. it was difficult for us to kind of identify who was just there as part of staff for the church versus who was there for the school because it s all housed in one building, but at this time we were able to get that number of persons transported out of the building and into that reunification site, so that is where parents can go to be reunited. with their students. there is a hotline being set up for parents to call. but right now that is where they should go. 2100 woodmont boulevard, which is what my baptist church additionally we do have a debriefing site set up for on staff are personnel who are working this incident, and there are mental health professionals set up there for them as well. there was one police officer that was injured with a hand injury as a result of making an attack on this incident. but other than that, there have been no additional injuries to first
teacher student to teacher ratio is about 8 to 1. so this goes to show that this has to be a very tight knit small community. and right now there is an area for parents to go to try to reunify with their children, and that also has to be a terrifying situation for parents showing up giving their names of their children to police and waiting for information on whether their children or not were victims in this shooting events so again? three children tragically have died as a result of the shooting at the covenant school in nashville, tennessee, alex camera and i just learned that news as she was speaking right after the top of the hour. we do know that this attack at this private schools and was saying happened just just a few hours ago. we ve been waiting for more details. we have just gotten the tragic breaking news that three young students from this school
in nashville, tennessee, have been killed. as amra just noted , this is a school that has pre k through sixth grade. so those children we do not know their ages right now, but they could be very young. three children. and the gunman killed after this school shooting in nashville, tennessee, just a short time ago. amra we know that you will stay on top of all of the details that are coming in to cnn, and we will be back with you very soon. but in the meantime i want to bring in cnn law enforcement analyst andrew mccabe. andrew thank you for joining us. you ve been on with me with so many of our colleagues so many times in the wake of the shootings. i do want to start with this news that three of the victims are for young students from this school again, this school pre pre k through sixth graders. what is your first reaction? when you hear that that this was at this private school with young students and that three of the victims are young children. sure
for meticulous in the second level, the immediately went to the gunfire. when the officers got to the second level, they saw a shooter and female who was firing. the officers engaged her she was fatally shot. by responding police officers. there was a five member team who was on that was on the second floor at that time to individuals from that five member team opened fire on the shooter. we know at this point that this shooter is a female. she appears to be in her teens, although her identification has not been confirmed at this juncture. we know that she was armed with at least two assault type rifles and a handgun. we are efforting now to identify her. she entered the school through a side entrance. and