Six People – three children and three staff – have been killed in a shooting by an ex- student at a school in the US city of Nashville, Tennessee.
Three of the victims were pupils aged nine or under at Covenant School. Police them as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney.
The adult victims were named as Cynthia Peak, 61, Katherine Koonce, 60, and Mike Hill, 61.
The private Christian elementary school has about 200 students.
It teaches pupils from three years old up to around 12.
Ms Peak was a substitute teacher working at the school that day. Mr Hill was a janitor and Ms koonce was described as the Head of School on Covenant’s website.
Tennessee Police have released surveillance footage
showing the shooter.
The footage shared on Twitter by Metro Nashville Police captured the suspect, identified as Audrey Elizabeth Hale, 28, arriving in a Honda Fit car, parking and then proceeding towards The Covenant School on Monday morning.
Police said that the suspect, Hale is wearing what looks to be a protective vest and carrying an assault-style rifle in one hand, with a second, similar weapon also visible hanging from the left hip.
Hale fired shots on the ground floor before moving to the building’s second floor.
As police cars arrived, Hale fired on them from the second floor, striking one in the windscreen, said police.
One officer was injured by broken glass. Police rushed inside and shot the suspect Hale dead.
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