Nashville shooting victims….Policed have confirmed the identities of the six victims who were gunned down at a Nashville school on Monday by a shooter who identified as transgender.
The Metro Nashville Police Department released the names of the victims at The Covenant School, half of whom were only nine years old.
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The victims are Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all nine. The other victims were Cynthia Peak and Mike Hill, 61 and Katherine Koonce, 60.
According to the school’s website, Koonce was the head of The Covenant School. The suspected shooter has been identified as 28-year-old Audrey Hale.
Metro Nashville police said Hale, a former student at the small private Christian academy, entered the elementary school through a side entrance at around 10.13am on Monday.
The alleged suspect, armed with two assault-type rifles and a handgun, made her way to the school’s second floor and opened fire.
Metro Nashville officers responded quickly to the scene and immediately heard gunfire on the second floor.
“Officers went to the gunfire. When they got to the second floor and saw the shooter, a female,” Metro Nashville police spokesperson Don Aaron said at a press conference.
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