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GRAPHIC VIDEO: BODY CAMS SHOW NASHVILLE POLICE SEARCH SCHOOL, FIRE AT SHOOTER


Body camera footage shows the officers engage and neutralize the active school
shooter on Monday.(MNPD)
By The Associated Press
Published: Mar. 28, 2023 at 6:41 PM MESZ
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville police released video Tuesday from a body-worn
camera that shows a team of officers entering and searching an elementary
school, then confronting and opening fire on an assailant who had murdered three
children and three adults in the latest school shooting to roil the nation.

The dramatic, six-minute video supplements an earlier release, late Monday, of
about two minutes of edited surveillance footage that shows the shooter’s car
driving up to the school, glass doors being shot out and the shooter ducking
through one of them.

WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO - Viewer discretion is advised.



The new video from Officer Rex Engelbert’s body cam shows a woman greeting
police outside as they arrive at The Covenant School on Monday. “The kids are
all locked down, but we have two kids that we don’t know where they are,” she
tells police.

“OK, yes, ma’am,” Engelbert replies.

The woman then directs officers to Fellowship Hall and says people inside had
just heard gunshots. “Upstairs are a bunch of kids,” she says.

Three officers, including Engelbert, search rooms one by one, holding rifles.
“Metro Police,” officers yell.

“Let’s go, let’s go,” one officer yells.

As alarms are heard going off in the school, one officer says, “It sounds like
it’s upstairs.”

Officers climb stairs to the second floor and enter a lobby area. “Move in,” an
officer yells. Then a barrage of gunfire is heard.

“Get your hands away from the gun,” an officer yells twice. Then the shooter is
shown motionless on the floor.

Police earlier identified the shooter, who was killed by police, as 28-year-old
Audrey Elizabeth Hale. They say Hale was a former student and shot through the
doors of the private, Christian elementary school. Hale had drawn a detailed map
of the school, including potential entry points, and conducted surveillance of
the building before carrying out the massacre, authorities said.

Police have given unclear information on Hale’s gender. For hours Monday, police
identified the shooter as a woman. At a late afternoon press conference, the
police chief said Hale was transgender. After the news conference, police
spokesperson Don Aaron declined to elaborate on how Hale identified.

In an email Tuesday, police spokesperson Kristin Mumford said Hale “was assigned
female at birth. Hale did use male pronouns on a social media profile.”

The victims were children Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney,
all age 9. The adults were Cynthia Peak, 61, Katherine Koonce, 60, and Mike
Hill, 61.

The website of The Covenant School, a Presbyterian school founded in 2001, lists
a Katherine Koonce as the head of the school. Her LinkedIn profile says she has
led the school since July 2016. Peak was a substitute teacher, and Hill was a
custodian, according to investigators.

Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake did not say exactly what drove
Hale but said in an interview with NBC News that investigators believe the
shooter had “some resentment for having to go to that school.”

Drake provided chilling examples of the shooter’s elaborate planning for the
targeted attack, the latest in a series of mass shootings in a country that has
grown increasingly unnerved by bloodshed in schools.

“We have a manifesto, we have some writings that we’re going over that pertain
to this date, the actual incident,” he told reporters. “We have a map drawn out
of how this was all going to take place.”



Authorities said Hale was armed with two “assault-style” weapons, as well as a
handgun. At least two of them were believed to have been obtained legally in the
Nashville area, according to the chief. Police said a search of Hale’s home
turned up a sawed-off shotgun, a second shotgun and other unspecified evidence.

President Joe Biden again called on lawmakers for stronger gun safety laws.

“It is time to show some courage here,” White House press secretary Karine
Jean-Pierre said Tuesday on CNN. It is time for Republicans in Congress to show
some courage and to answer to these parents, to these families.”

Founded as a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church, The Covenant School is in
the affluent Green Hills neighborhood just south of downtown Nashville that is
home to the famous Bluebird Cafe, beloved by musicians and songwriters.

The school has about 200 students from preschool through sixth grade, as well as
roughly 50 staff members.

Before Monday’s violence in Nashville, there had been seven mass killings at
K-12 schools since 2006 in which four or more people were killed within a
24-hour period, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and
USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. In all of them, the
shooters were males.

The database does not include school shootings in which fewer than four people
were killed, which have become far more common in recent years. Just last week
alone, for example, school shootings happened in Denver and the Dallas area
within two days of each other.

Monday’s shooting unfolded over roughly 14 minutes. Police received the initial
call about an active shooter at 10:13 a.m. Police killed the suspect at 10:27
a.m.

Officers began clearing the first story of the school when they heard gunshots
coming from the second level, Aaron said. Police later said the shooter fired at
arriving officers from a second-story window.

Police identified Engelbert, a four-year member of the force, and Collazo, a
nine-year member, as the officers who fatally shot Hale.

The surveillance video released Monday shows the shooter’s car driving up to the
school from multiple angles, including one in which children can be seen playing
on swings in the background. Next, an interior view shows glass doors to the
school being shot out and the shooter ducking through one of the shattered
doors.

More footage from inside shows the shooter walking through a school corridor
holding a gun with a long barrel and walking into a room labeled “church
office,” then coming back out. In the final part of the footage, the shooter can
be seen walking down another long corridor with the gun drawn. The shooter is
not seen interacting with anyone else on the video, which has no sound.

Aaron said there were no police officers present or assigned to the school at
the time of the shooting because it is a church-run school.

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.


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