The incident occurred in a religious school in the town of Nashville when Audrey Hale, 28, killed three children and three school workers. The police ended up shooting down the attacker, supposedly a former student of The Convenant School.
It was mid-morning when Audrey Hale walked through the school’s secondary gate to change the history of the institute forever. The young woman crossed the ground floor and went up to the first floor when, for reasons that are still being investigated, she fired.
Screams, runs and deaths. The attacker entered the establishment with “at least two assault rifles and a pistol” causing the death of “three students and three adults,” local police spokesman Don Aaron would later confirm during a press conference.
When the first shots were heard, they called 911, which, following a quarter of an hour, arrived at the school and went directly to the place where the shots came from. When going up the stairs, they shot the attacker to stop the massacre.
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Audrey Hale had a blueprint and left a manifesto
As confirmed by the agency, Audrey Hale, author of the crimes, had “a detailed plan” of the place and left “a manifesto”. The security forces searched the young woman’s home and found a map “with the accesses” to the facilities, police chief John Drake said.
“We have a manifesto, we have some writing that we’re looking at” and “a blueprint” for “how this was going to happen.“, he concluded.
The attacker was a former Alliance Presbyterian College student and Nashville residentaccording to the latest police investigations, which at the moment did not provide more details regarding his identity, according to the agency Europa Press.
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Upon arrival, ambulances took Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney with gunshot wounds to Vanderbilt Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital. However, the three children under the age of 9 were “declared dead upon their arrival” to the health center, the hospital reported and NBC affiliate television published.
For their part, the two women, Cynthia Peak -61- and Katherine Koonce – 60 -, and 61-year-old Mike Hill were transferred to Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville with the same result.
Nashville Mayor John Cooper posted on his social media: “On this tragic morning Nashville joined the fateful list of communities that experienced a school shooting. My heart goes out to the families of the victims. The entire city is with them”.
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The president of United States, Joe Bidenpraised the security forces for the speed with which they reacted to the crime, calling it “disgusting”.
Gun violence “is tearing apart our communities, tearing at the soul of this nation,” he commented from the White House, calling once more on Congress to ban assault rifles.
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The Democrat has long called for Congress to ban, or at least restrict, the possession of these weapons designed to cause the maximum number of victims, but Republicans oppose it.
Los Biden calls to ban assault rifles have little chance of success. According to an >/Washington Post poll conducted in February, 51% of Americans oppose it and only 47% support it.
At the end of his conference, the US president praised the local police, who responded in a matter of “minutes” to “end the danger” while reiterating that schools must be “protected” so that they “do not become prisons”, according to the NBC.
4.368 muertos
Deadly shootings are common in the United States, where some 400 million firearms in circulation caused more than 45,000 deaths in 2020 by suicide, accident or homicide, according to the latest figures released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC).
That year, for the first time, the weapons became the main cause of death among children between the ages of 1 and 19, with 4,368 deaths, ahead of traffic accidents and overdosesaccording to the same source.
Although the killings in schools constitute a minor part of the total, they especially shock society. The shooting is the 129th this year, according to the chain CNN.
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