A female shooter killed three children and three adults at a Nashville elementary school on Monday before being killed by police, according to officials.
Talking to reporters, Nashville police spokesperson Don Aaron said that police received a call of a shooter at 10:13 a.m. at The Covenant School, which is a private Presbyterian elementary school hosted by a church that holds preschool up to sixth grade.
When they arrived, police heard shooting on the second floor and, when they entered that level, saw a female shooting. Officers engaged her and she was fatally shot by the responding officers, Aaron said.
He said the shooter “appeared” to be in her teens and was armed with two assault-type rifles and a handgun. He said the shooter entered the school through the side entrance and went from the first floor to the second. “By 10:27 a.m., the shooter was deceased,” Aaron said.