The first funeral for one of the victims, nine-year-old Evelyn Dieckhaus, was set for Friday. While the shooter targeted the school, housed in the Covenant Presbyterian Church and serving about 200 pupils from pre-kindergarten to sixth grade, the individuals were slain at random, police said. The shooter was armed with two assault-style weapons and a 9mm handgun, which police later found were among seven firearms the assailant had legally purchased in recent years.
Police said the shooter left behind a manifesto related to the attack. John Drake, the Nashville police chief, said the shooter's writings suggested plans to carry out shootings at other locations. They're begging for us to do something," he said, according to The Tennessean newspaper. State Representative Bob Freeman, a Democrat representing Nashville, on Thursday addressed lawmakers in the House chambers, calling for "common-sense" gun reforms, including background checks and red-flag laws to prevent individuals from possessing firearms who show signs of being a threat to themselves or others.įreeman told his colleagues they had to respond to demonstrators whose chants could be heard outside the chambers. The state in recent years has made it easier to acquire firearms and done away with the need for permits to carry concealed handguns. Republican lawmakers in Tennessee this week delayed hearings on gun legislation that would expand access to firearms. "Got workers locked in the nursery and in the office."īy 10:25 comes the hope the shooting may be over: "Suspect down." CALL FOR REFORMS "They're advising they're still hearing more shots fired," she says at 10:17. The city also released recordings of communications between dispatchers and officers headed to the scene.Īt 10:15 and 8 seconds, a dispatcher says police have received multiple calls of shots fired at the school. Loud booms and two types of emergency alarms can be heard. In another, a woman says she is hiding beneath a desk in a nursery. The woman then hushes the children and tells them to be quiet so they can stay safe. In one, a woman tells a dispatcher she's hiding with children in the art room closet on the second floor and can hear shooting, as heavy booms are heard on the recording.Ī child is heard saying "I want to go home!" at one point on the call.
Nashville's Department of Emergency Communications released 911 calls related to the shooting on Thursday, which showed calls flooding in to the dispatch center starting at 10:12 a.m. A motive for the shooting was as yet unclear. Police responded and killed the assailant, a 28-year-old former student at the school. In the latest, the shooter killed three pupils and three staff members at Nashville's Covenant School. The 303 incidents last year were the most of any year in the database, which began in 1970. school shootings, defined as any incident in which a gun is discharged on school property, number 90 so far this year, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database website founded by researcher David Riedman. "To be a voice for the children, to prioritize their safety, I felt a duty to be here," she said. S'Kaila Colbert, holding her infant daughter, told MSNBC that her love of Christ called her to protest. More than a thousand people joined the protest organized by local mothers, packing the building's rotunda and forcing highway patrol troopers to clear paths in the crowd for lawmakers to walk through.ĭemonstrators held aloft placards reading "No More Silence" and "We have to do better" while chanting "Do you even care?" and "No more violence!" NASHVILLE, Tennessee, March 30 (Reuters) - Protesters flooded Tennessee's statehouse on Thursday to demand lawmakers stiffen gun laws following a school shooting in Nashville that left six people dead, three of them 9-year-old children.
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