Another American community has been shaken after a gunman killed three nine-year-olds and three adults at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville. Monday’s attack was the deadliest shooting at a U.S. school in nearly a year and the 19th in 2023 at a school or college in which at least one person was injured, according to a CNN tally. Covenant School students hold hands after dropping off their car to meet their parents at a reunion spot after a mass shooting at the school in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday.
Our community is heartbroken, Covenant School, a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church, said in a statement, thanking first responders for their quick response and those supporting the school. Six victims of a shooting at an elementary school in Nashville have been identified by police.
Three students and three staff members were shot and killed Monday morning at Covenant School in Tennessees capital, according to the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department. Covenant School is a private Christian school for children in preschool through sixth grade with approximately 209 students and 40 to 50 staff.
Police have identified the victims as Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9; Mike Hill, 61; William Kinney, 9; Catherine Coons, 60; Cynthia Peake , 61; and Harley Scruggs, 9. We mourn the great loss and are appalled by the horrors that have destroyed our school and church. We are focused on loving our students, our families, our faculty and our staff, and beginning the healing process, the school said.
The entire state of Tennessee was hurt yesterday, Gov. Bill Lee said in a video statement released Tuesday night.
