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Nashville school shooting suspect Audrey Hale had previously posted on Facebook about the death of a romantic partner, according to a former teacher.
Art college instructor Maria Colomy, who taught Hale at the Nossi College of Art & Design in Nashville, recalled a social media post from the shooter “openly grieving” the unknown individual and said that Hale had announced the bereavement and asked to be addressed as Aiden and by masculine pronouns from then on.
As the investigation continues into the shooter’s possible motives for embarking on Monday’s massacre at a private Christian elementary school in the Green Hills suburb of the Tennessee city, state governor Bill Lee has revealed that he and his wife were friends with murdered teacher Cynthia Peak, one of six people shot dead, and had invited her to dinner that night.
In addition to Peak, three children aged nine – Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney – were shot dead on Monday, as were staff members Katherine Koonce and Mike Hill, the former since described as a hero for selflessly running towards the attacker to protect her charges.
Meanwhile, Nashville police chief John Drake has said that Hale was “under doctor’s care for an emotional disorder” before the killings and had hidden seven legally purchased weapons at her family home.
Police said that the suspect, who was armed with two assault-style rifles and a handgun on Monday, was a former student at the school who had methodically planned the attack and may have harboured “resentment” against the institution.
‘How many children have to die like those in Nashville before the US changes its gun laws?'
For Indy Voices, here’s Victoria Richards with a timely reminder of just how obscene it is that mass shootings like Monday’s horrific events in Nashville have been allowed to become commonplace.
Sabrina star Melissa Joan Hart says she helped kindergarteners escape Nashville attack
Melissa Joan Hart, the former teen star of the original Sabrina the Teenage Witch television series, has taken to Instagram to claim in an emotional video that she and her husband helped a number of pupils from The Covenant School escape Monday’s attack.
The actress explained that she had been on her way to a parent-teacher conference at her own children’s school when they happened to see children racing away from the scene of Audrey Hale’s attack.
“We helped a class of kindergartners across a busy highway,” she told her followers, fighting back tears.
“They were climbing out of the woods. They were trying to escape the shooter situation at their school. So we helped all these tiny little kids cross the road and get [to] their teachers… We helped a mom reunite with her children.
“I don’t just don’t know what to say anymore. Enough is enough. And just pray. Prayer for the families.”
Hart explains in the short clip that she moved to Nashville from Connecticut, where she had lived close to Sandy Hook during that time of the notorious 2012 massacre there.
Senate chaplain calls for lawmakers to ‘move beyond thoughts and prayers’ after Nashville school shooting
Senate chaplain Barry Black used his opening prayer as he opened Congress on Tuesday to move beyond thoughts and prayers after Monday’s deadly shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville.
Mr Black’s opened the gathering of lawmakers by saying: “When babies die at a church, it is time for us to move beyond thoughts and prayer.”
Eric Garcia has the story.
Arizona governor’s press secretary takes down ‘transphobe’ gun meme amid Nashville backlash
Here’s an update on the furore we reported on earlier over an ill-advised tweet from Arizona governor Katie Hobbs’s spokeswoman Josselyn Berry, which caused state Republicans to demand she be fired.
Gustaf Kilander has the latest.
Nashville school shooter previously posted online about death of partner, says teacher
Nashville school shooting suspect Audrey Hale had previously posted on Facebook about the death of a romantic partner, according to a former teacher.
Art college instructor Maria Colomy, who taught Hale at the Nossi College of Art & Design in Nashville, recalled a Facebook post from the shooter “openly grieving” the individual.
Speaking to The New York Times, Ms Colomy said that Hale had announced the bereavement and asked to be addressed as Aiden and by masculine pronouns from then on.
“She had been openly grieving about that on social media, and during the grieving is when she announced that she wanted to be addressed as a male,” the teacher said.
Despite school shooting, Tennessee's gun laws likely to remain lax
As Nashville residents reel from the fatal grade school shooting that left six dead, a federal judge has quietly cleared the way to drop the minimum age for Tennesseans to carry handguns publicly without a permit to 18 — just two years after a new law set the age at 21.
The move marked yet another relaxation of gun laws in ruby-red Tennessee, where Republican leaders have steadily chipped away at firearms regulations and lambasted those who have warned that doing so comes at a cost.
After school shooting, Tenn. gun laws likely to remain lax
A federal judge quietly cleared the way to drop the minimum age to 18 for Tennesseans to carry handguns in public without a permit the same day Nashville residents were reeling from a fatal grade school shooting that left six dead, including three children
How Washington reacted to the Nashville school shooting is sadly unsurprising
Passing a gun bill required just the right circumstances in Washington last year. Those don’t exist any more with Republican control, writes Eric Garcia.
Biden acknowledges demand for new gun laws be says he ‘can’t do anything except plead with Congress’
With Republicans controlling the House of Representatives in the wake of last November’s midterms, achieving any meaningful change to firearms regulations is a dimmer prospect than ever right now, hence the president’s dismayed tone.
Right-wing bgun industry apologists are already striving to characterise Audrey Hale’s actions as a mental health matter unrelated to the ready availability of military-grade weapons.
‘The sum of all fears’: Nashville and its religious schools grieve – and worry – after Monday massacre
Nashville’s airwaves were thick with emotion on Tuesday as the famed Music City struggled to come to terms with a school shooting that left three nine-year-olds and three adults dead a day earlier.
Mourners were placing flowers and cards at makeshift memorials near The Covenant School, where the shooting occurred, while religious leaders planned prayer vigils.
The Independent’s Sheila Flynn has this eyewitness report from a city struggling to come to terms with its grief.
Nashville school head teacher ‘ended Zoom call to confront shooter’ before being shot dead
The head of The Covenant School in Nashville, who was one of the six victims of the shooting, confronted the shooter as soon as she heard of the incident, according to an official.
Katherine Koonce, 60, was on a Zoom call when she was informed of the shooting in her school, Nashville city councilman Russ Pulley told Fox News, citing a witness.
Mr Pulley said she “immediately ended” the meeting and did not hesitate to head straight to the shooter.
Stuti Mishra has this report.
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