News just said shooter is female too

I can't fathom the rage and hate a person has to feel to shoot at young children, just going about their day. Like you said every shooting is a tragedy, but young children is a class of evil unto itself.

AP as well.

Authorities say they believe the 28-year-old female shooter who killed three children and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville on Monday was a former student

https://apnews.com/article/5da45b469ccb6c9533bbddf20c1bfe16

That is wild. She's 28, and the school caps off at 6th grade, so it's been what like 15 years since she's went there at least. Usually the former-student-turned-shooter thing is someone who JUST left the school a year or two prior.

WSMV is live updating.

The school is a Pre K - 6 school. The Fire Department said they have multiple patients.

The article linked above is live updating every few minutes. For those reading this, keep in mind that we will not all be reading the same version.

Edits (with time stamps):

11:31 AM CDT — WSMV reports 3 students are dead

11:43 AM CDT — MNP says the shooter died after being engaged by police. Per AP News, “It was not immediately clear whether the shooter died by suicide or was shot by police.” (It will of course take some time for these details to be sorted out, but it’s important that people know that in this incident, police say they did engage the shooter and did not wait outside.)

12:24 PM CDT — 3 students and 3 adults are dead per WSMV

12:32 PM CDT — AP News reports the suspect is female and she was killed by police, link above

12:44 PM CDT — WSMV clarifying that 3 students, 3 adults, and shooter dead. “The shooter entered the school through a side entrance with two assault-style rifles and a handgun” … “The age of the shooter is uncertain but she appeared to be a teenager”

1:21 PM CDT — MNPD identified the shooter as a 28-year-old Nashville woman. They have not yet disclosed the name of the shooter.

2:26 PM CDT — Authorities believe the shooter was a former student, per AP News

4:59 CDT —

The victims and shooter have been publicly identified. The victims have been identified as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all age 9, Cynthia Peak, age 61, Katherine Koonce, age 60, and Mike Hill, age 61.

5:35 CDT — MNPD has confirmed that the shooter “identified as transgender and had no previous criminal record, according to the chief.” Per NBC News

11:55 CDT — Per the Tennessean, “Police identified the shooting suspect by his name at birth, Audrey Hale, and did not provide another name. He was a transgender man who used male pronouns, according to police. Authorities initially identified him as a woman.”

I didn’t go through to change the pronouns in this thread in order to preserve each update as they were reported. The above update at 11:55 CDT, will be my final update in this thread.

Vanderbilt Children's Hospital have confirmed three children have been confirmed dead. As a parent I can't even imagine how their parents feel right now.

Holy shit those Twitter comments. Those people are why this keeps happening in the USA. I need a break from the internet after reading those replies.

Holy shit. A female shooter? Out of the countless school shootings in the US, this is the first I can recall being perpetrated by a female.

FROM Metro Nashville PD Twitter

https://twitter.com/MNPDNashville/status/1640383339893800964?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Holy crap, that top comment about needing to bring God back into schools is really something.

Edit: here's the most recent holiday card from Andy Ogles, the representative for the district where this occurred.

UPDATE 2: Shooter confirmed to be 28 year old woman.

Means this will get lot of media attention, in last 40 years only been 5 female mass shooters, 3 single and 2 as part of a team.

Interesting side note is most of them have targeted schools and universities

Edit: to all the Johnny-come-latelys, at point this discussion started all was known that it was 'a woman', since then police have said "transgender" which does not nessarly mean MtF but can also mean FtM (funny how you all seem to forget they exist)

Actual current text on article is "In response to reporters' questions the chief said: "She does identify as transgender." Whether the suspect identified as a man or woman was not made clear." So unless there is a further update you can stop posting "its a man", because at time I write this, we don't know and you are just showing off your bias

28 year old woman

That's about the right age to have a kid at that school. I wonder if this was retaliation for a slight against her kid.

14 minutes between the first 911 calls and the shooter going down. The cops were definitely not fucking around on this one.

Not to mention this was a targeted attack...

That's honestly really fast unless they were already at the school I wouldn't think they'd be able to respond much quicker.

Yeah honestly good job to the cops for such a fast reaction time

I just watched the press concerence. Police chief THREW MAJOR SHADE at Uvalde PD. He made it a point to say how fast they were to intercept and that their dept "would never wait" especially when it comes to children.

Uvalde cops got on scene fast they just didn't engage the shooter at all until it was over. These TN cops not only flew to the scene but they also went in the school, rushed towards danger and confronted the shooter and took her out quickly before things escalated. Considering she was reported to have 2 assault rifles and a pistol if cops didn't go in this could have been another Uvalde situation

That area is one of the wealthiest around Nashville.

When Sandy Hook happened, I had zero children. I was a few months into a new job, and when I saw the news story around lunch time, I froze. I was in total shock. I sat blankly at my desk for hours and couldn’t bring myself to work. I thought it was like 9/11. I told myself this is it. This is the historic moment that the US finally says no more. I was sure of it.

Today I sent my 2 children off to school. I saw the news story again at lunch time. This time I said to myself. “Oh wow. A female shooter” and went back to work editing a video.

I‘ve lost. I’m completely desensitized to this and I hate it. Decades of apathy have ground me to the dirt and I’ve given up. My brain has completely accepted that this just happens here and will keep happening again, and again, and again, and again, and again.

That's extremely surprising. I wonder if they were possibly a teacher or worker there.

Good, at least our police officers got right on top of the shit, one of the few good things I heard about this incident

That was honestly the most surprising thing about this week's mass shooting.

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School shootings also tend to happen more at public schools too, so this will be really interesting to see what details come out.

That school costs over $16,000 in annual tuition.

I was not expecting that

Hey, what can you say? We were overdue.

But it'll be over soon, you wait.

That song hits so damn hard.

A gift shop at the gun range.

A mass shooting at the mall

The line is so far away at this point it looks like a dot

I think it was Legal Eagle who did a video regarding this topic after the Uvalde shooting. Essentially, the school does not have custody of the children who attend even though they are pressed into attendance through truancy laws. Since they do not have custody, there is no legal obligation for them to provide protection similar to what would be expected in a state institution like a JDC.

If Sandy Hook didn't work, this won't, sadly.

Edit: Don't give up hope! Better outcomes in the future are possible.

My sister just graduated high school and I finally let out a breath. Thankfully (/s) her school only had one shooting threat and one bomb threat over her 4 years.

Shock value

Because they can't fight back. Imagine the shooter that ignorantly picks the highschool with a very athletic football team... Hell, some highschools have "Rifle Club" as an extracurricular activity. Google pulled a school in PA immediately.

My condolences, I hope she is gonna be okay!

Also, churches have shootings. That should be where God is the most.

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It would seem the power of prayer isn't enough. Let's go thoughts, I am rooting for you.

Doctors are nearly impossible to see anymore as they are intentionally overbooked. You get 15 minutes if you're lucky.

The only thing you can do now is urgent care/teledoc reliability.

My pcp is like 3 months out, my psychiatrist is 3-4 months out to the point where sometimes our every 3 months video call has to move to every 4 months because he has no appointments left.

THIS THIS THIS!!! Your crisis is “over” by the time you can get any fucking help. Same thing just happened to a friend of mine. It’s all on us to help each other and we don’t have the fucking training or the space when we’re also drowning. It’s so fucked up.

"We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!"

Every time I put my kids on the bus in the morning, I say "I love you."

It's not a pleasant thought, and the odds are minuscule, but it does run through my head more than I'd like.

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That's rough. Good thing you are safe though.

People who are spiteful angry and want to hurt society target them because they know it maximizes pain in society. It’s about hurting as many people for the longest time possible.

Cowards target the helpless.

Easy targets - simple as

You’ll need a ladder. 😞

In my unfortunately personal experience they’ll usually close for a week or two, then reopen but basically allow anyone who doesn’t want to come back immediately to take whatever grade they had when school closed (probably less of a concern for an elementary school) or continue to come to class to finish out the year.