Kids killed at Covenant Presbyterian Faculty

First girl Jill Biden additionally spoke on Monday. “I’m really with out phrases. And our kids deserve higher,” she mentioned throughout a Nationwide League of Cities convention in Washington. “We stand – all of us, we stand – with Nashville in prayer.”

Mass shootings have turn into commonplace within the US, however a feminine attacker is uncommon. Solely 4 of the 191 mass shootings since 1966 catalogued by The Violence Mission, a non-profit analysis centre, have been carried out by a feminine attacker.

There have been 89 college shootings – outlined as a gun being discharged on college property – within the US thus far in 2023, in keeping with the Ok-12 Faculty Capturing Database, a web site based by researcher David Riedman.

Final yr, there have been 303 such incidents, the best of any yr within the database, which matches again to 1970.

Loading

The Nashville victims have been pronounced useless upon arrival on the Monroe Carell Jnr Kids’s Hospital, in keeping with Craig Boerner, a spokesperson for Vanderbilt College Medical Centre, which is affiliated with the kids’s hospital.

It was not instantly clear whether or not anybody else was wounded within the assault. Different college students walked to security, holding fingers as they left their college, which was surrounded by police vehicles.

Different particulars concerning the taking pictures weren’t instantly accessible.

Cops with rifles, heavy vests and helmets could possibly be seen strolling by the college parking zone and across the grassy perimeter of the constructing on Monday morning. Helicopter footage additionally confirmed the officers wanting round a wooded space between the campus and a close-by street.

Jozen Reodica heard the police sirens and fireplace vans blaring from outdoors her workplace constructing close by. As her constructing was positioned underneath lockdown, she took out her telephone and recorded the chaos.

Loading

“I assumed I might simply see this on TV,” she mentioned. “And proper now, it’s actual.”

On WTVF TV, reporter Hannah McDonald mentioned that her mother-in-law works on the entrance desk in school. The lady had stepped outdoors for a break and was coming again when she heard gunshots, McDonald mentioned throughout a stay broadcast.

The Covenant Faculty was based as a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church in 2001, in keeping with the college’s web site. It’s situated within the prosperous Inexperienced Hill neighbourhood simply south of downtown Nashville.

It’s located near town’s prime universities and residential to the famed Bluebird Cafe – a beloved spot for musicians and songwriters.

Reuters, AP

Get a notice instantly from our overseas correspondents on what’s making headlines all over the world. Join the weekly What within the World e-newsletter right here.