About 50 people gather outside the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville to protest against gun violence, a day after a heavily armed 28-year-old shot three children and three adults to death at a school
“I have elementary school-aged kids and I’m sick of being scared to send them to school,” a local resident attending the Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America rally tells AFP
– Nashville school shooter hid seven firearms in house –
The 28-year-old who shot dead six people at an elementary school in Nashville bought and concealed multiple weapons in the family home, despite evidence of mental health issues, police said Tuesday
Two nine-year-old girls, a nine-year-old boy, two teachers and a school custodian died in the Monday attack, which instantly revived the bitter public debate over gun rights in the United States
Nashville police chief John Drake told reporters that Audrey Hale (28) had been receiving treatment for an “emotional disorder,” and that the shooter’s parents believed their child — who lived at home with them — had bought and later resold a single gun
But Hale was heavily armed with two assault rifles and a handgun upon entering the Covenant School, a small Christian academy for about 200 students that the shooter attended as a pupil
The shooter, identified by police as a female who had used male pronouns on social media, had prepared detailed maps of the school and also left a written manifesto that suggested attacks at other locations were planned
“Audrey bought seven firearms from five different local gun stores here legally,” Drake said. “Three of those weapons were used yesterday doing this horrific tragedy
“She was under doctors’ care for an emotional disorder… Her parents felt that she should not own weapons. They were under the impression that she sold the one weapon that she did own
“As it turned out, she had been hiding several weapons within the house
Drake added that pupils and staff were not targeted individually and there was no known motive despite the manifesto being found
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