28.03.2023
Authorities in Nasville, Tennessee, are investigating the motivations of a 28-year-old woman for killing three children and three adults.
Three children and three adults died this Monday (03.27.2023) in a massacre at a Christian private school in Nashville, Tennessee, a drama that has reopened the debate on the ravages of firearms in USA.
According to the local police chief, John Drake, the massacre was committed by Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old transgender person, who was killed by security forces. The police told the local newspaper The Tennessean that it is a trans man.
He was carrying “at least two assault rifles and a handgun,” local police spokesman Don Aaron said at a news conference.
At mid-morning, the young man entered the small school, The Covenant School, through a secondary door, of which he is believed to have been a student, according to preliminary elements of the investigation.
Quick police intervention
He crossed the ground floor and went up to the first floor, firing numerous shots. Three students, ages 8 to 9, and three adults, ages 60 to 61, were killed, Aaron said.
The policemen went to the scene and after hearing shots upstairs they went up “immediately” and “killed” the attacker who was pronounced dead at 10:27 a.m. (15:27 GMT), that is, a quarter of an hour after the first call for help. accurate.
During the assault, one of the preschool teachers managed to call her daughter. “She told me that she was hiding in a closet, that there were shots everywhere,” Avery Myrick told WSMV4 television, a local NBC affiliate. She was relieved that her mother is still alive, but she “grieves for all those” who lost loved ones to her in this massacre.
Local television channels showed the images of ambulances and parents who came to pick up their children, taking cover in a church.
President Joe Biden praised law enforcement for how quickly 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 again on Congress to ban assault rifles.
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