protests, a crippling nationwide strike and warnings of civil war ? israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu delays the judicial overall plan that s dividing his country. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to the nashville school shooting and what we know about the woman who pulled the trigger that, according to police, cnn national correspondent dianne gallagher is working the story for us. she s on the scene, diane as we await an update momentarily from police. what do we know at this hour? wolf. we just got a notification from police on the identities of the six people who were killed this morning in the covenant school in nashville, tennessee. i want to read their names to you, um evelyn decals. halle scruggs, william kenny, all of them just nine years old cynthia peak 61. katherine coons, age 60 and mike hill age 61. according to police. all six of them were killed by a 2
15 20 years ago. so i doubt if that s a connection, but maybe somebody who works there something that drove her there in order to be able to commit a crime. uh or the crime that she committed where these folks targeted? uh you know, when you look at the video, they ll be looking to say one how she made entry because the door was supposedly locked. but then did she go directly to a particular place? in other words, it looked like she was on a mission. she knew exactly where she s going. did she pass anybody up that she did not injure? i mean, we don t know the answer to any of that. but that s all part of the investigation. and steve this swift police response that we saw today stands in stark contrast to what we saw last year when a gunman killed 21 people, including 19 children in uvalde, texas. how do these situations compare in your view ? yeah, i think that s exactly right. an important point. because the lack of immediate action from the responders and nobody waiting for upwards o
like assault weapons where large numbers of people could be killed very, very quickly within seconds, and so the loss of life just fortunate that it s only six as opposed to what it could have been 39 year old kids and 3 60 60 year old adults shot and murdered for no reason at all. steve grotowski. you re an expert on gun policy. it s an incredibly rare correct me if i m wrong for a woman to perpetrate a mass shooting like this. what do you make of these unique details of this case at least thus far. yeah that s exactly right. according to the gun, the violence project, which uh, looks at shootings where four more people were killed in public only four shooters since 1966 have been female. in those circumstances. this is incredibly rare situation to have someone like this. target the school now we re hearing she has a connection to the school that s more common to hear in these sorts of situations. but the fact that she this was a woman is something that will
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