Last Updated: March 29, 2023, 06:58 IST
This handout physique digicam video seize exhibits suspect Audrey Hale mendacity on the bottom after being shot by cops on the Covenant School constructing in Nashville, Tennessee. (AFP)
The six-minute video exhibits police armed with weapons making their means from classroom to classroom, looking for the shooter, whereas emergency alarms wail within the background
Nashville authorities have launched chilling footage exhibiting officers getting into the Christian faculty to answer the capturing that left six folks useless, looking the premise for the attacker and taking down the shooter.
The six-minute video exhibits police armed with weapons making their means from classroom to classroom, looking for the shooter, whereas emergency alarms wail within the background.
In the footage, taken from the physique cameras of officers Rex Engelbert and Michael Collazo, the officer is seen arriving approaching the varsity in his automobile, arming himself after which chatting with a employees on the Covenant School who directs the cop contained in the constructing, providing info and a door key.
The officers shout directions as they clear the varsity’s downstairs areas, together with lecture rooms full of small desks and paper craftwork, whereas jackets and backpacks are seen hanging within the hallway.
Multiple gunshots are heard as officers advance to a sun-filled atrium upstairs, the place the suspect, later named as Audrey Hale, was killed by police in the course of the assault.
Audrey Hale killed three youngsters and three adults and is believed to have as soon as been a scholar on the facility, in line with the police.
Hale, recognized by police as a feminine who had used male pronouns on social media, had ready detailed maps of the varsity and left a written manifesto that urged assaults at different places had been deliberate.
Nashville police chief John Drake mentioned Hale had been receiving therapy for an “emotional dysfunction,” and that the shooter’s parents believed their child — who lived at home with them — had bought and later resold a single gun.
In an earlier video also released by the Nashville police, Hale is seen entering the school by first shooting the glass door at the entrance.
Hale, wearing a black military-style vest, camouflage pants and red baseball cap, moved through the building, opening fire on children and staff.
She was armed with at least two assault rifles and a handgun and could be seen inspecting the rooms.
The victims were an eight-year-old and two nine-year-olds, two teachers, one of whom was the longtime head of the school in the southern US state, and a school custodian.
Responding to the incident US President Joe Biden described the deadly school shooting in Nashville as “sick” and mentioned gun violence is tearing the nation’s “soul.”
“It’s simply sick,” he mentioned on the White House. Biden praised police for responding “inside minutes” but called on Congress to pass an assault weapons ban.
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