Video released Tuesday shows Nashville police officers firing multiple rounds at the suspected shooter in Monday's school shooting, minutes after storming the private Christian elementary school with rifles and conducting a room-by-room search.
The six minutes of footage, taken from body cameras of two of the officers who attended the scene, shows police clearing one classroom after another on the first floor before heading up the stairs to the second floor, where the shooter was shot. gunned down.
The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department began receiving calls about a shooter at 10:13 a.m., police spokesman Don Aaron told reporters.
The suspect was pronounced dead at 10:27.
The attacker, who was identified as Audrey Hale, "a woman who identified as transgender," according to the police chief, murdered six people in Nashville, Tennessee, at the Covenant private religious education school.
Three of the victims are school children, the other three deceased are adults.
Hale had studied at that center, and, according to the police, he denied his experience.
He had plans for the Presbyterian school and wrote, before embarking on his macabre mission, a manifesto whose content had not been disclosed at the end of the day.
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