The balance sheet is likely to increase further. Three children and three adults have been killed after a woman opened fire at a Nashville elementary school on Monday, police said in the southern United States town of Tennessee. “The shooter is a woman. She appears to be a teenager,” Don Aaron of the Nashville, Tennessee, police said at a news conference as he gave the toll.
Hit by bullets, the death of the three children was declared “on their arrival at the hospital”, according to the declarations of the officials of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, quoted in particular by the local television NewsChannel 5. The shooter was killed by the forces order, Nashville police also tweeted.
Three adults also died, according to this channel and its colleague WSMV4, who do not know if the shooter is among these two deaths. The firefighters said they had “taken care of several patients”, without giving further details on the age or condition of the victims.
A private Christian school targeted
The shooter, armed with two semi-automatic rifles and a pistol, entered the premises of a private Presbyterian Christian school, named “The Covenant School”, according to the police of this city of the State of Tennessee in the morning. . The establishment housed students from the final to the equivalent of the sixth.
“Based on our preliminary investigation, at some point she was a student at this school, but we are not sure of the year,” Nashville Police Chief John Drake told US television.
US President Joe Biden called the killing “disgusting”. It “rips at the very soul of our nation,” he said, praising police responsiveness and again calling on Congress to ban assault rifles. “It is time again to make more progress” in the regulation of firearms, he claimed.