'Above and beyond':Nashville police moved fast, saved lives in Covenant shooting, experts say. ", Adrienne Battle, director of Metro Nashville Public Schools, said she was "grieving today over the tragic murder of children and school staff right here in our community," calling the killings an "unimaginable loss of life. Police believed two of the guns were obtained legally, Drake said. "Mike was the beloved father of eight children. Hale had no [criminal] history at all, Drake said, adding that one AR-style weapon in the attack was a rifle and one a pistol while the other gun was a handgun. The officers found the shooteron the second floor of the building that housesthe school and a Presbyterian church. Authorities said Hale identified as a transgender person and was assigned female at birth, according to court records. "We've got one down," he says before turning right down the hallway. " We strongly believe there were going to be other targets, including maybe family members and one of the malls here in Nashville.". But Rosanne Cash, daughter of the late Nashville country music star Johnny Cash and a singer-songwriter in her own right, responded by criticizing Blackburn's ties to the National Rifle Association (NRA) gun lobby. Following a deadly school shooting last month, Republican lawmakers in Tennessee have passed a proposal that would protect gun and ammunition dealers . Exclusive news, data and analytics for financial market professionals, Reporting by Kevin Wurm in Nashville; Additional reporting by Kanishka Singh, Tyler Clifford, Rich McKay, Brad Brooks, Joseph Ax and Brendan O'Brien; Writing by Jonathan Allen and Steve Gorman; Editing by Sandra Maler and Stephen Coates, Texas man accused of killing five neighbors was deported four times, US may default June 1 without debt ceiling hike; Biden calls McCarthy to meet, Biden urges Republicans take debt default off table, warns interest rates would jump, American Airlines pilots authorize a strike mandate, Brazil police shoot dead 4 illegal gold miners on Yanomami reservation, Sudanese fleeing north face arduous crossing into Egypt, Kuwait again dissolves reinstated parliament by decree, British royals release photo of a beaming Princess Charlotte, Israeli attack puts Syria's Aleppo airport out of service, one soldier killed -state media. Police said Hale drove to the campus, parked and entered after shooting out the glass in a set of double doors. Three children and three adult staff members were slain at a Nashville school Monday in one of Tennessee's deadliest school shootings. Last year saw 303 such incidents, the highest of any year in the database, which goes back to 1970. Fallout from the Covenant shooting was swift and dovetailed into the political crossfires resulting in the expulsion of two state lawmakers who protested gun violence inside the state Capitol before they were reinstated days later. But maybe theres something for the general public to understand behavioral-wise why they did this.. Maria woke up this morning without one of her best friends, Cindy Peak." WHAT IS AN 'ASSAULT WEAPON'? USA TODAY. Officer Rex Engelbert fired four 5.56 rounds from his rifle, police said Monday, while Officer Michael Collazo fired four rounds from his 9 mm pistol. David Rausch, director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, said authorities sent heartfelt prayers to the families of these victims. Erik Ortiz is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital focusing on racial injustice and social inequality. Mitchell watched out of her classroom window as police and emergency vehicles raced past her school and to the scene, about two miles down the road off Hillsboro Pike. Bill Campbell, a headmaster of The Covenant School from 2004 to 2008, told NBC Newshe remembers Hale as a third grader at the school in 2005 and a fourth grader in 2006.
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