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Nashville– In the United States, at least three children and three adults were killed Monday in a shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville. According to the Police, the attacker was a 28-year-old woman who had attended said institution and also died at the scene.
Added to the Gun Violence Archive figures is another shooting in the United States. That organization registered 308 last year. The one on Monday, March 27, claimed the lives of three adults and three children at a school in Nashville, in the state of Tennessee.
Three students died after arriving at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital in Vanderbilt with gunshot wounds, said John Howser, a hospital spokesman. In addition, three adult staff members were killed.
According to the Nashville Police Department, the attacker died in a confrontation with officers. The 28-year-old woman was carrying two semi-automatic rifles and a pistol when she entered the Christian school.
The calls began to arrive from 10:13 am (local time) in which it was assured that there was a shooter in The Covenant School.
Two officers from a five-member team shot the woman in the lobby area and she died at 10:27 a.m.
“The response from the police department was swift,” police spokesman Don Aaron said.
An active shooter event has taken place at Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, on Burton Hills Dr. The shooter was engaged by MNPD and is dead. Student reunification with parents is at Woodmont Baptist Church, 2100 Woodmont Blvd. pic.twitter.com/vO8p9cj3vx
— Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) March 27, 2023
The scene of the news, which at this moment has the attention of the press and the weight of society’s feeling of impotence, is The Covenant School, which attends students from preschool to sixth grade, according to its website.
Biden condemns the attack
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, reacted to the news. The president urged Congress to approve more laws to regulate the carrying of weapons in the North American country.
“It’s sick,” he said from the White House. And he added: “We have to do more to protect our schools, so they don’t become prisons.”
For his part, the mayor of Nashville, John Cooper, expressed his sympathy for the victims and wrote on his social networks that his city “joined the feared and long list of communities that experienced a shooting at a school”.
So far this year, there have been at least 30 reported incidents involving firearms in schools in the United States, which have left 8 dead and 23 injured, according to data from the organization Everytown for Gun Safety.
With EFE and Reuters
