Nashville shooting: video shows police storm school, kill attacker
- The 6-minutes of bodycam footage released showed officers confronting suspect Audrey Hale, who had bought 7 weapons before the incident
- Investigators are examining a ‘manifesto’ that Hale left behind, hoping to learn what motivated the latest in a long string of US mass shootings
Video released on Tuesday showed police officers storming a private Christian grade school in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday before confronting and fatally shooting an attacker who killed three nine-year-old students and three adult staff members there.
The six minutes of harrowing footage, edited together from the body-worn cameras of two responding officers and released by the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, showed officers clearing several first-floor classrooms before heading upstairs to the second floor as gunfire is heard.
The officers run down a hallway – past what appears to be a victim lying on the ground – and into a lounge area, where the suspect is seen dropping to the floor after being shot.
Police have identified the shooter as Audrey Elizabeth Hale, a 28-year-old former student at the Covenant School. Investigators are examining what they called a “manifesto” that Hale left behind, hoping to learn what motivated the latest in a long string of US mass shootings.
Police say Hale also had a detailed, hand-drawn map of the school showing various entry points.