While memories of the Covenant School shooting continue to linger across Nashville one year later, one group of parents is turning their grief into a tangible action plan to keep schools and students safe.
Bodycam video from that March 27 shooting in 2023 shows Nashville police entering the Christian school, racing toward the gunfire to confront and take down the shooter later identified as Audrey Hale.
In the end, the shooting left three Covenant students and three staff members dead.
Mary Joyce and Melissa Anderson whose children attend the school recall that tragic day.
“The feeling of complete helplessness on that day and trying to do anything to get to my child,” Joyce told CBN News.
“They could hear all of the gunshots and the children, some of them, one grabbed the Bible and started praying,” said Anderson. “And so in their minds, as they waited in that moment, hearing what was going on around them, they were preparing to be next.”
The mothers say their kids are still feeling the trauma a year later.
“My 9-year-old now, she just turned 10 a couple weeks ago, doesn’t sleep in her own bed yet,” said Joyce. “She still has nightmares. She is
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