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Three Children, Three Adults Die In School Shooting In Nashville

A heavily armed 28-year-old fatally shot three children and three adult staffers on Monday at a private Christian school the suspect once attended in Tennessee’s capital city before police killed the assailant, authorities said.
29 Mar 2023 10:48
Three Children, Three Adults Die In School Shooting In Nashville
Children arrive at Woodmont Baptist Church to be reunited with their families after a mass shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville. Photo: AFP

A heavily armed 28-year-old fatally shot three children and three adult staffers on Monday at a private Christian school the suspect once attended in Tennessee’s capital city before police killed the assailant, authorities said.

The motive was not immediately known but the suspect had drawn detailed maps of the school, including entry points for the building, and left behind a “manifesto” and other writings that investigators were examining, Police Chief John Drake told reporters.

The latest in an epidemic of deadly mass gun violence that has come to routinely terrorise even the most cherished of US institutions unfolded on a warm spring morning at The Covenant School, whose students consist mostly of primary school-age children.

 

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Source: Xinhua

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