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the honda fit that the 28 year old shooter audrey elizabeth hale drove to the campus this morning. parked there. detective searched after officers shot and killed the attacker and found material inside, written by hell. now they have posted an image on social media of the glass doors that they say the attacker shot through. enter the building, right? didn t just open a door actually shot. ah into the building. police say they will be releasing footage as soon as tonight of what they encountered and when they arrived at the scene this morning. meantime the killer has been identified as transgender person who once attended that same private christian school located inside a church and tonight we may be learning about a possible motive. there is some belief that there was some resentment to having to go to that school. don t have all the details of that just yet, and that s why this incident occurred. that was nashville s police chief, john drake, speaking to nbc earlier tonight
house and all federal buildings be lowered to half staff. to honor the victims. the news continues. erin burnett outfront starts now. outfront next massacre in america. police say they searched the shooter s parked car and found more material that audrey hale wrote before killing six people, including three children. they re also on standby for police to release video from the moment the shooter was taken down. plus the trump probe mystery witness revealed the man who helped broker that hush money deal with stormy daniels appears again before new york grand jury did david peckers new testimony, help or hurt the ex president and she made explosive claims about fox news, alleging she was coached to lie in a major legal case against the network. the network is now fired. her producers lawyer is with me tonight. let s go, outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight we re getting a first look at the car of the killer of three children and three adults at covenant sc
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
revealed by local officials just a little while ago. that s going to see it as diane gallagher. she s watching all of this unfold for us. diane police say this was a targeted attack by the shooter, and they shared some of the clues she left behind. that s right, wolf. they say this was a targeted attack by 28 year old audrey elizabeth hale, who is a resident of the national area and a former student of the covenant school there at covenant presbyterian church. now i want to immediately talk about those six victims because police say that audrey hale shot and killed six people in that church this morning. they got the call around 10 13 am about the shooting. this is a very small school around 200 students that serves preschool. through sixth grade. the three of the victims are children were told to nine year olds and an eight year old who was about to turn nine. evelyn decals halle scruggs, william kenny and then three staff members. cynthia peak age 61, a substitute teacher,