Breaking story to be updated….
Shooter is dead…..
MSNBC says this is the 12th incident like this since the beginning of the year….
*Update.…The adults killed has been raised to 3…
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Three children were killed in a shooting at a private Christian grade school in Nashville on Monday, hospital officials said. The suspect is also dead after a confrontation with police.
All three children had gunshot wounds from the shooting at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian school for about 200 students from preschool through sixth grade.
The killings come as communities around the nation are reeling from a spate of school violence, including the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, last year; a first grader who shot his teacher in Virginia; and a shooting last week in Denver that wounded two administrators.
The Nashville victims were pronounced dead upon arrival at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital, according to Craig Boerner, a spokesperson for Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
It was not immediately clear whether anyone else was wounded in the attack. Other students walked to safety Monday, holding hands as they left their school surrounded by police cars, to a nearby church to reunited with their parents….
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The shooter died after being “engaged by” officers, Metro Nashville Police said in a Twitter post. It was not immediately clear whether the shooter died by suicide or was shot by police….
Update….
The shooter was a teen age woman.female….
Officers engaged her in gunfire in an “upper level” part of the school and she was deceased by 10:27 a.m., according to Aaron.
The shooter was armed with two “assault-type” rifles and a handgun….
Note….
This will NOT affect America’s ‘Gun Culture’ in anyway…..