Wed Mar 29, 2023 – 9:58 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — On Monday, 28-year-old Audrey Hale, a young woman who identified as transgender, entered The Covenant Christian School in Nashville, Tennessee, with two AR-style weapons and a handgun, shooting open a locked side door to gain access. She began her shooting spree at around 10:13 a.m., killing three 9-year-old children – Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney – and three adults – 61-year-old substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, 60-year-old principal Dr. Katherine Koonce, and 61-year-old custodian Mike Hill.
Less than fifteen minutes later, Hale was shot and killed by two police officers – Rex Engelbart and Michael Collazo – who rushed into the building. Hale fired on the arriving police cars from a second story window.
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Late Monday night, a spokesperson for The Covenant Christian School released a statement:
We are grieving tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our school and church. We are focused on loving our students, our families, our faculty and staff, and beginning the process of healing.
Chad Scruggs, the pastor at the Presbyterian church
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