Nashville, TN

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – Metro Police are investigating shooting Monday morning at The Covenant Presbyterian School. Metro Police confirmed there was an active shooter at the school, and the shooter is dead. Student reunification is at Woodmont Baptist Church, 2100 Woodmont Boulevard. The Covenant is located at 33 Burton...

MNPD: Shooter is dead following active situation at Covenant School

Metro Police Chief John Drake talk about the officers' response to the shooting at The Covenant School. Metro Police Chief John Drake details whether police could have taken guns from shooter. Updated: 4 hours ago. |. Metro Police Chief John Drake answers question about where the victims were found in...

Nashville shooter reached out to old friend

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – Metro Police are investigating shooting Monday morning at The Covenant Presbyterian School. Three students and the shooter are dead, according to Vanderbilt University Medical Center. A student reunification is at Woodmont Baptist Church, 2100 Woodmont Boulevard. The Covenant is located at 33 Burton Hills Boulevard,...

MNPD: 3 students, shooter dead after shooting at Covenant School

Alabama State

Metro Police have released video of the shooting on Monday at The Covenant School. Neighbors of a Brightwood Avenue home described what they saw and heard when police came to search the home where the school shooter lived. Joylyn Bukovac recalls Alabama school shooting. Updated: 1 hour ago. |. Joylyn...

4:15 PM UPDATE: Metro Police provide update on Nashville school shooting

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Audrey Hale, 28, shot and killed three students and three adults at Covenant School in Nashville on Monday morning, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department. MNPD said its investigation led to the discovery of a manifesto with a plan and drawing. Police said they also...

Manifesto, map discovered following Nashville school shooting

Louisiana State

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The six victims of a school shooting in Nashville on Monday have been identified by Metro Police. The victims in the shooting at Covenant Presbyterian School are Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all children all 9, Cynthia Peak, 61, Katherine Koonce, 60, and 61-year-old Mike Hill. Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake confirmed the names of the victims Monday afternoon and identified the shooter as 28-year-old Audrey Hale.

Victims identified in Nashville school shooting

Tennessee State

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – Multiple children and adults are dead, and an investigation is underway after a school shooting in Nashville Monday morning. Three students and three adults are dead after being shot at Covenant Presbyterian School, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department. The victims have been identified...

3 students, 3 adults, shooter dead after Nashville school shooting, police say

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Metro Nashville Police are investigating a shooting that left two people in critical condition early Tuesday morning in East Nashville. According to MNPD, officers were called to 1026 Hart Lane around 2:45 a.m. for reports of a shooting. They arrived to find one man lying on the ground next to a car and another sitting in the driver’s seat. Both men suffered gunshot wounds and were transported to the hospital in critical condition.

Search underway for double shooting suspect in East Nashville

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Metro Police said Tuesday that Audrey Hale was under a doctor’s care for an emotional disorder. Police said Hale bought seven firearms legally in recent years. The guns were bought at five different stores. Hale also hid the guns from parents. Three of those weapons were used during Monday’s shooting.

What happened to turn smiling teenager to school shooter?

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Sounds of explosions drew people from their homes along Brightwood Avenue in Nashville’s Belmont neighborhood Monday afternoon. Authorities used explosive devices to make entry into the home at 3005 Brightwood Ave. Law enforcement officials with the FBI and the Metro Nashville Police Department started collecting...

Authorities search Nashville school shooter’s home

Joylyn Bukovac recalls shooting at her school when she was in eighth grade. A Nashville parent reacts to learning about the school shooting at Covenant School. Strangers come out to comfort family, friends of shooting victims. Updated: 25 minutes ago. |. Strangers came out to offer condolences and prayers to...

Lydia Fielder describes scene inside school reunification location

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – Metro Police are investigating a shooting Monday morning at The Covenant Presbyterian School. Three students and the shooter are dead, according to Vanderbilt University Medical Center. VUMC also confirms two adults have been killed in the shooting. A student reunification area has been set up by the Nashville Fire Department at Woodmont Baptist Church, at 2100 Woodmont Boulevard. NFD recommends that parents use this area to meet their students from the school.

VUMC: 3 students, 2 adults dead; Police say shooter also dead at the Covenant School

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – The Metro Nashville Police officers who stepped into action Monday morning to stop the suspect opening fire inside a Nashville private school are being awarded for their bravery. The founder of the Uvalde Foundation for Kids, formed in response to the Robb Elementary School shooting...

Officers who stopped Nashville school shooter to be honored by Uvalde Foundation

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A west Nashville LGBTQ theatre company sued the state of Tennessee for what it calls a violation of rights. The company, Friends of George’s, is suing the state for the passing of SB0003, a bill that makes it a criminal offense for anyone who engages in an adult cabaret performance on public property, or in view of minors.

LGBTQ theatre company sues Tennessee over cabaret bill

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – The 28-year-old school shooter who opened fire inside a Nashville private Christian school on Monday morning had a mental health disorder, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department. In a press conference Tuesday afternoon, MNPD Chief John Drake said Audrey Hale, the shooter who shot...

Nashville school shooter had mental health disorder, police say

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Monday was a shocking and heartbreaking day for so many in the Nashville community. Three students and three adults were shot and killed at Covenant Presbyterian School, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department. The shooting has left many parents wondering how they should talk with...

WSMV4 reporter Joylyn Bukovac reflects on surviving school shooting

Joylyn Bukovac describes going through a school shooting

GREEN HILLS, Tenn. (WSMV) - A shooting at a school in Nashville has left three children, two adults and the shooter dead. Police said 28-year-old Audrey Hale entered Covenant Presbyterian School with two assault-style rifles and a handgun, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department. Police said Hale was a former student at the school and killed multiple adults and children.

‘They were hiding in the closet’: Daughter of Nashville teacher describes fatal shooting

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A child psychologist who was in the midst of the tragedy as patients arrived at Monroe Carell Jr. Children Hospital at Vanderbilt on Monday explains what parents need to know about school shootings while trying to speak with children. Dr. Katherine Spencer, one of the lead...

Tips from Nashville child psychologist for school shooting trauma

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department released the body camera footage from the two officers who shot and killed the active shooter on Monday. Officers Rex Engelbert and Michael Collazo were part of the team of officers who first arrived at the Covenant School for reports of an active shooter. The videos show Engelbert locating the shooter, Audrey Hale, on the second floor while appearing to fire at officers outside through a window.

Body camera footage shows officers engage Nashville school shooter

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A shooting at the Covenant Presbyterian School has left three students, three adults, and the shooter dead. The shooter was identified as Audrey Hale, a former student, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department. The victims have been identified as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William...

Reaction to fatal Covenant School shooting in Nashville

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Metro Nashville Police are investigating an assault at a home in East Nashville that sent one person to the hospital early Monday morning. According to the MNPD, officers were called to the 800 block of North 2nd Street around 3:30 a.m. for a robbery in progress. One person was found assaulted at the scene and was transported with life-threatening injuries.

Police investigating assault in East Nashville

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Hundreds of people paid their respects to the six victims of Monday’s mass shooting at the Covenant School, building a memorial of flowers and toys at the school’s front entrance Tuesday. By morning, one sign planted in the ground out front, read: “6 Tragic...

Memorial grows outside Covenant School day after mass shooting

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - More details emerged on Tuesday about the shooting at The Covenant School which left six people dead, including three 9-year-old students. Metro Nashville Police released body-worn camera video of two officers, Rex Engelbert and Michael Collazo, when they encountered Audrey Hale, the 28-year-old identified as the shooter, on the second floor of the school. Engelbert has been with Metro Police for four years while Collazo has been an officer for nine years.

Chief: School shooter wasn’t on police’s radar

Several vigils were held Monday night for the victims of the Covenant School shooting. Monday was an emotional day for many, especially those with people they love inside The Covenant School in the Green Hills area. New details released about school shooting suspect. Updated: 5 hours ago. |. Police searched...

6 killed in shooting at Covenant School in Green Hills

Covenant staff member to speak to victim's family

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The shooter at the Covenant School planned to attack multiple locations, the Metro Nashville police chief said in a press conference on Monday. Police Chief John Drake said police found a manifesto from the shooter, 28-year-old Audrey Hale. Hale is a former student of the Covenant School, a private Christian school for students aged preschool through 6th grade.

Nashville school shooter had plans to attack multiple locations, police say

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South Nashville apartment burns 4 times in 5 years

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - For the fourth time in five years a fire destroyed an apartment building in the same South Nashville complex on Sunday night....

South Nashville apartment burns 4 times in 5 years

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