Nashville police released bodycam footage of yesterday’s school shooting that killed six people, including three nine-year-old children. The bodycam was of Officers Rex Engelbert and Michael Collazo.
The released footage shows the cops taking the gunman down and exchanging gunfire. Children were not seen in the footage. Gunman Audrey Hale was shot dead on the second floor of the school, in what appears to be an atrium.
Transgender male and former elementary school student Audrey Hale is said to have entered Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee shortly after 10 am. opened fire on students and staff, killing six victims.
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Students Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all aged 9, principal Katherine Koonce, aged 60, Cynthia Peak, aged 61, and Mike Hill, aged 61, all died in the attack. Two of the police officers who responded to the attack shot the suspect.
Nashville Police Chief John Drake said at a news conference Monday that Hale attended school once. It seems that they had no criminal record. Neighbors expressed their shock at Monday’s attack, describing Hale as a normal “quiet” person from their family who had no interest in guns.
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Hale arrives on campus in their Honda Fit, with security footage showing the car driving through the parking lot to the building.
Police say Hale was able to break into the Covenant’s first-floor school door, where the shots were fired, before moving upstairs. The first 911 call of gunfire came at 10:13 a.m., police said.
As officers stormed the campus, the shooter opened fire on the approaching police officers from a second-story window.
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Police entered the building and began evacuating it. While clearing the building, police heard gunshots from the second floor and moved to a common area on the second floor, where they met Hale, police said.
Two police officers opened fire, killing Hale. Monday’s tragedy lasted about 14 minutes.
Late Monday night, police released a roughly two-minute edited surveillance video showing the killer’s vehicle driving to school from multiple angles, including one where children can be seen playing on a swing in the background.
