“It’s ripping at the soul of this nation, ripping at the very soul of this nation,” Biden said. President Joe Biden, speaking at an unrelated event at the White House on Monday, called the shooting a “family’s worst nightmare” and implored Congress again to pass a ban on certain semi-automatic weapons. The affluent Green Hills neighborhood just south of downtown Nashville, where the Covenant School is located, is home to the famed Bluebird Café – a beloved spot for musicians and song writers. The Covenant School was founded as a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church. “We have a map drawn out of how this was all going to take place.”
“We have a manifesto, we have some writings that we’re going over that pertain to this date, the actual incident,” he said. “I was literally moved to tears to see this and the kids as they were being ushered out of the building,” Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake said at an afternoon news conference.ĭrake did not give a specific motive when asked by reporters but gave chilling examples of the shooter’s prior planning for the targeted attack. The attack at The Covenant School - which has about 200 students from preschool through sixth grade, as well as roughly 50 staff members - comes as communities around the nation are reeling from a spate of school violence, including the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, last year a first grader who shot his teacher in Virginia and a shooting last week in Denver that wounded two administrators. Her LinkedIn profile says she has led the school since July 2016.
The website of The Covenant School, a Presbyterian school founded in 2001, lists a Katherine Koonce as the head of the school. The victims were identified as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all 8 or 9 years old, and adults Cynthia Peak, 61 Katherine Koonce, 60 and Mike Hill, 61.
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