2023 Covenant School shooting

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2023 Covenant School shooting
Part of mass shootings in the United States and school shootings in the United States
2023 Covenant School shooting
Location Green Hills, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Coordinates 36°05′35″N86°49′32″W / 36.09306°N 86.82556°W / 36.09306; -86.82556 Coordinates: 36°05′35″N86°49′32″W / 36.09306°N 86.82556°W / 36.09306; -86.82556
DateMarch 27, 2023
10:11 – 10:27 a.m. (CDT; UTC−05:00)
TargetStudents and staff at The Covenant School
Attack type
 Mass murder, mass shooting, school shooting
Weapons
Deaths7 (including the perpetrator)
Injured1 [lower-alpha 1]
PerpetratorAiden Hale [lower-alpha 2] [3]
MotiveUnder investigation

On March 27, 2023, a mass shooting occurred at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian Church in America parochial school in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee. Aiden Hale, a transgender man and former student of the school, [4] [5] [6] killed three children and three adults before being killed by two Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD) officers.

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Background

The Covenant School is a private Christian school in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville. It educates students from pre-kindergarten to the sixth grade. It was founded in 2001 as a ministry of Nashville's Covenant Presbyterian Church, a congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America; its enrollment is about 200 students. [7]

Shooting

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Hale drove a Honda Fit to the school, arriving at 9:54 a.m. CDT and parking it in the lot. [8] [9] At 9:57, Hale sent an Instagram message to an old friend saying an earlier post he made was "basically a suicide note" and that he planned to die that day. [10] His friend called a crisis hotline before contacting the Davidson County Sheriff's Office at 10:13. [11]

At 10:11, Hale shot through a set of glass side doors and entered the building. [12] He was armed with two rifles and a pistol. [13] [14] At 10:13, police received a call about an active shooter. [15] [16] When police arrived at the scene, a teacher told an officer that the students were in lockdown and two were missing. [17]

Officers entered the building at around 10:23. [18] [19] [4] Police reported that all of Hale's victims were on the first floor of the building. [20] While clearing the first floor of students and staff, they heard gunshots coming from the second floor. [21] [22] At 10:25, a five-member team approached Hale; [23] two of the officers fired four times each, killing him at 10:27, 14 minutes after the initial 911 call was made. [24] [25] [23]

Victims

Six people—three students and three staff—were killed at random. [4] Five were pronounced dead at a hospital and one at the scene. [26] The students who died were Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney, and Hallie Scruggs, all aged 9. [27] [lower-alpha 3] The staff who died were substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, 61; custodian Mike Hill, 61; and head of school Katherine Koonce, 60. [28] In addition, a police officer cut his hand on shattered glass. [29]

Perpetrator

Aiden Hale was identified as the shooter. Police initially identified him as a woman using his birth name, Audrey Elizabeth Hale, but, later, on the day of the shooting, MNPD Chief John Drake said that authorities "feel that [Hale] identifies as trans," though he acknowledged "we're still in the initial investigation into all of that". [30] Media sources[ who? ] subsequently reported Hale was a trans man. [31] [32]

Hale, a 28-year-old Nashville resident with no criminal record [33] and a former student of the school, [34] was an illustrator and graphic designer who graduated from the Nossi College of Art & Design in 2022. [12] A neighbor said Hale lived with his parents. [35] An ex-classmate said that Hale had a difficult time dealing with the August 2022 death of a woman who was possibly a romantic partner or close friend. [6] [36] His former art teacher and a former classmate recalled him coming out as transgender on Facebook in 2022. [37] [38] Drake said Hale was under care for an emotional disorder at the time of the shooting. Drake also said Hale had legally purchased seven firearms, including three recovered from the shooting scene, between October 2020 and June 2022. [1]

Aftermath

Actress Melissa Joan Hart was nearby when the shooting occurred and helped escort some of the fleeing children to safety. [39] She recounted the experience on Instagram a day later. [40]

A reunification center was set up at the Woodmont Baptist Church by the MNPD. Students who fled the school arrived by school bus in the afternoon. Parents identified and retrieved their children who were first counted separately. [41] Several vigils were held for the casualties. A memorial at the school gathered items such as flowers, balloons, and stuffed animals. [42] The city of Nashville set up a fund to support those who were affected. The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee also established one for The Covenant School, and GoFundMe created a list with verified similar fundraisers. [43] [44]

On March 30, thousands of protestors gathered at the Tennessee State Capitol to call for stricter gun control laws. [45] [46] Some children held signs saying "I'm nine" in reference to the age of the children shot. [47] Within the chamber of the capitol, three state representatives, Justin Jones, Justin Pearson, and Gloria Johnson led the public gallery in chants of "no more silence", "we have to do better", and "gun reform now", demanding that lawmakers strengthen gun laws. This protest delayed a hearing on a bill which would expand gun access. [48] [49] The next day the state legislature passed a law allowing private schools to hire school resource officers from police departments to help prevent shootings, effective immediately. [50]

On April 3, Johnson and Jones were stripped of their committee assignments, and alongside Pearson were notified that they could be expelled from the House. House Speaker Cameron Sexton said their actions were unacceptable, breaking rules of decorum and procedure. [51] [52] Jones and Pearson were expelled from the House on April 6, with the vote to expel Johnson failing by a single vote. [53] Within a week, they were reinstated in interim capacities—the Nashville Metropolitan Council unanimously voted to reinstate Jones, and the Shelby County Board of Commissioners unanimously voted to reinstate Pearson. [54] The case garnered national attention. [55] [56]

On April 5, thousands of students across the United States demonstrated in a walkout to call on lawmakers to end gun violence. [57] The student group March for Our Lives organized walkouts across Tennessee as well as a march to the State Capitol. [58]

Investigation

The MNPD is leading the investigation of the shooting; it is being assisted by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. [59] Two shotguns, one of which was sawed-off, and other evidence were found in a search of the Hales' house. [60] Evidence included a detailed map of the school with potential entry points and a manifesto. [22] [61] He was believed to have undertaken reconnaissance before committing the shooting. [62] Police said he had originally considered targeting another location but had decided not to carry out the attack due to the level of security on the premises. [61] On April 3, police said Hale planned the shooting for months and fired 152 rounds at the school, 126 of them 5.56 rifle rounds and 26 of them 9mm rounds. [63]

Reactions

U.S. President Joe Biden said, "We have to do more to stop gun violence. It's ripping our communities apart, ripping the soul of this nation, ripping at the very soul of the nation... we have to do more to protect our schools, so they aren't turned into prisons." [7] He ordered flags on all federal buildings to be flown at half-staff. [64] [65]

The Covenant School asked for privacy while its community was heartbroken and grieving tremendous losses. [42] Nashville Mayor John Cooper highlighted the long history of school shootings in the U.S. and offered his condolences to those affected. [22] Several notable Nashville musicians including Mickey Guyton, Margo Price, and Sheryl Crow offered their condolences and anger about continual school shootings. [66] Representative Andy Ogles, whose district includes Nashville, tweeted, "We are sending our thoughts and prayers to the families of those lost. As a father of three, I am utterly heartbroken by this senseless act of violence." [67] Tennessee state representative Bob Freeman, a Democrat from Nashville, called for gun reforms in the wake of the shooting. [68]

Arizona gubernatorial press secretary Josselyn Berry tweeted, hours after the shooting, a meme of an actress from Gloria pointing two pistols alongside the text: "Us when we see transphobes." The post was widely condemned and she resigned two days later. Her former administration said the tweet did not reflect its values. [69] [70] Donald Trump Jr., Laura Ingraham, and Roger Stone suggested the subsequent indictment of Donald Trump was timed to draw attention away from the shooting. [71] [72] [73] As a part of a long running Internet meme, posts misidentifying the shooter using an altered photo of comedian Sam Hyde circulated on social media. [74] [75] A fake manifesto posted anonymously on 4chan was reposted on Twitter. [76]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The injured victim was a police officer who cut his hand on shattered glass. [2]
  2. ↑ Formerly known as Audrey Elizabeth Hale.
  3. ↑ Police Chief John Drake said in a press briefing on March 27, 2023, that one of the children was aged 8, while Public Affairs Director Don Aaron said that all the children were aged 9 in the same press briefing. Most sources say that all three were 9.

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