better at trying to figure out who these people are. because we have so few other recourses to better protect our children and our society and our safe spaces, spaces that are supposed to be safe across this country. alright andrew mccabe, stay with me. we are learning more. we have just heard from the daughter of one of the teachers at this school in nashville, speaking about when she learned about this horrible shooting earlier today, let s take a listen. and i just woke me up this morning and told me that my mom said there was a shooter at the school and then i texted her and i said, just like what was going on. 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. really scary, really sad, just praying for all the families out there. andrew as we know that we are going to hear from law enforcement in just a few minutes. what? what? what are you hoping to learn? what would
you be asking them? well you know, i think everyone s hoping to learn a little bit more about the shooter here. who is this person? what s their connection to the school? why did they end up here today? they might not have the answers to all those questions yet, but that s certainly foremost in people s minds. and then about the victims. i mean, we understand that there are three innocent children who have been killed and the shooter himself. of course his or herself is also dead. um and you know what? how is the local community preparing to support this group of victims , family members and parents and fellow students who are going to have a really tough, tough, tough experience to try to navigate over the next days and months and years? really? um and alex. it will be very routine. you will see police officers and first responders say the same sorts of things. we ve seen time and time again in pretty much
attack that looked, and i am not suggesting that this attack looks that way or is any in any way connected to terrorism. but in the terrorism context, you re always worried about another operative. another a follow on attack or something like that. so yeah. when i hear about these things, i instinctively wonder if there could be another act of violence that s coordinated in. it s almost never happens in the run of the mill day to day mass shootings that we experience in this country, but it is why a tactical team after eliminating the threat in the way they did in this school, they can t just dropped their guard and immediately start um, you know, thinking about tending to the victims, they have to proceed to clear the entire space. they ve got to go room to room to understand if there s another threat and also to find additional victims and casualties. we are getting word that we may be having maybe getting more. ah comments from officials in just a few moments
responders or personnel responding to this, and as don mentioned earlier, we will have further updates coming later on in the afternoon. so on a typical day there would be about 209 students. inside the school and approximately 40 to 50 staff members about 42 staff members. i ll take just a couple of questions before you go back to the seventh dead and then nature of injuries. how many injured, you know? maybe you re being treated still or injuries. i never first responders weren t an officer had a wound from cut glass. that is the only other injury that i m aware of. injuries. students are critical. three students are deceased. three students who were shot are deceased. three staff members who were shot or deceased. that s a total of six victims.
circumstances surrounding that, but again, the most important thing, and i m sure the thing that most people care about are these victims. we don t know the extent of their injuries. we don t know if their students staff faculty, but you know, we are learning right now that three children. have died as a result of the shooting. we are getting this is this from the vanderbilt university medical center? this is the information that we re getting right now, the nashville medical center has confirmed that three children have died. alex just heartbreaking. we don t know how old they are, but clearly they were the victims of what was a shooting event inside their small school. this is the covenant school, a private christian school. alex for pre k through sixth graders. the website says that the average enrollment is a around 200, the