Female Shooter Reported Killed By Police After Murdering 5 in Nashville School Shooting

Police say they shot and killed a female suspect in a shooting at the The Covenant School this morning in Nashville, Tennessee. They report that the unidentified shooter killed three children and two adults before police arrived engaged her.

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 shooter is reported to have entered the school through a side entrance and opened fire on the second floor. A police spokesman reported that the shooter was armed with two “assault-type” rifles and a handgun.

Fromt the AP . . .

Police said the shooter appeared to be in her teens.

The Nashville victims were pronounced dead upon arrival at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital and Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Other students walked to safety Monday, holding hands as they left their school surrounded by police cars, to a nearby church to be reunited with their parents.

Police officers with rifles, heavy vests and helmets could be seen walking through the school parking lot and around the grassy perimeter of the building Monday morning. Helicopter footage from WTVF also showed the officers looking around a wooded area between the campus and a nearby road.

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BREAKING: Alleged gunman in Nashville school shooting was female who entered through a side entrance of the school, armed with at least “two assault-type rifles and a handgun,” officials say.

“We are efforting now to identify her.” https://t.co/J8fihPNR3n pic.twitter.com/ZmbIMTg6YS

— ABC News (@ABC) March 27, 2023

Today will also be remembered for a gun control advocate setting a new land speed record in hijacking a Nashville Police Department press briefing in order to push for more gun control laws literally before any of the victims’ bodies had cooled.

An anti-gun lobbyist just hijacked Nashville police’s press conference on this morning’s shooting at a private Christian school that left six dead. pic.twitter.com/cpfWU39mt2

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 27, 2023

As we always caution in these situations, initial reports frequently contain bad or slanted information. Proceed accordingly.