her address. they have not released her name but describe her as a 28-year-old nashville woman carrying two assault style rifles and a handgun. authorities have not identified a motive e1either, but they do y it appears she was a student of the covenant school at one point, an elementary school. that s where she killed six people, three kids and three adults. here s a breakdown of what happened inside that school from nashville metro . ■qpolice s fi news conference a little bit earlier. when the officers gotq to th second level, they saw a shooter, a 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 the that was on the second floor at that time, two individuals from that five-member team opened fire on the shooter. we know at this point that this shooterçó is a female. shooterçó is a female. she was armed( assault type rifles and a hawí we are efforting now to identify her.
tonight on the reidout we just learned about another shooting in tennessee. a school shooting. and i am truly without words. and our children deserve better. first lady and teacher dr. jill biden responding to the latest horrific acts of mass violence as politicians in states like tennessee worry more about drag shows and banning books than about actually protecting our children. also tonight, public protests in israel and elsewhere against the rising wave of authoritarianism. while here in the u.s., there s a shocking lack of urgency in repudiating the conspiratorial and violent rhetoric from our home-grown autocrat in waiting, donald trump. meanwhile, trump continues to lash out at the manhattan d.a. and the manhattan grand jury hears from a key player in trump s hush money scheme. bebut we begin with a tragedy that is unique to america. another school massacre. this time in nashville, tennessee. where a 28-year-old woman shot and killed three students and t
In public, makes it easier for dangerous people to access and carry guns in public. he signed that legislation at a gun manufacturing plant in 2021. and he has the nerve to offer t again.eyó these are not acts of nature. these are manmade acts of powerlessness, enabled by lawmakers who haveçó decided th children being shot in schools return for the support of the gun industry. we re throwing around a lot of stats today. the 33nd incident of gun violence at schools this year alone. hundreds of mass shootingsñi th year alone, et cetera. this is the stat that gets me. the leading cause of death for kids in this t(country, notok c accidents, not cancer, they re
Hidden loaded handguns in public without a background check or training. he signed that into law and celebrated it at a gun manufacturing plant. this is a state where they have incredibly weak gun laws and gun homicides have spiked 110% in the last decade there. at what point do more guns make us more safe? the answer is never. and that is why we need lawmakers to pass stronger gun laws. the data shows they work. and so when we elect lawmakers to make laws, we don t elect them to give us their thoughts or their prayers. we elect them to act, and that is what we should expect as constituents. and to stay with you for a second, shannon. the congressman that represents this district, his name is andy ogles. he s a republican. he represents this district. i want to show a picture, you tweeted out a picture, i guess it was his christmas card. there it is, there he is
Out of the headlines, that the attention was going away from him and he got more and more depressed, is that right? yeah, and she said it ebbed and flowed. he would feel invincible one moment and be caught speeding, the photo that we all saw at the gun manufacturing plant. the media paid attention to him. but when that died off, samantha says that s when he would spiral into that deep depression. it was almost like he was feeding off the attention at times. what does that tell you. i think eric has hit it on the head. he was feeding on that attention. it s like somebody who is an overeater. and all of a sudden you take food away from them. they literally feel like they re starving. in zimmerman case, you take that media away, and he may have been emotionally starving. and the young woman that eric interviewed, this is a young woman who thought she could help