We are
now listening in to
a press conference
by Tennessee and Nashville's
Metropolitan Police
Front to take a listen
to the second level.
They immediately went to the gunfire
when the officers
got to the second level,
they saw a shooter, a female
who was firing the officers engaged her.
She was fatally shot
by responding police officers.
There was a five member team
who was on
that was on the second floor
at that time.
Two individuals
from that five member team
opened fire on the shooter.
We know at this point that this shooter
is a female.
She appears to be in her teens,
although her identification
has not been confirmed at this juncture.
We know that she was armed
with at least two assault type rifles
and a handgun.
We are efforting now to identify her
She entered the school
through a side entrance
and traversed her way
from the first floor
to the second floor,
firing multiple shots.
We now know that there are three students
who were fatally wounded
as well as three adults
inside the school.
We are working to identify those victims,
including the shooter.
A total of seven persons were killed
as a result
of this morning's incident at the school.
By 1027,
the shooter was deceased.
The officers had engaged
the shooter by 1027 and she was deceased.
Again,
I said the first call came in at 1013
this morning.
I'll take just a couple of questions.
Before we go back.
So the seven dead
and then the nature
of injuries, how many injured
that maybe
are being treated still or injuries?
I know the first responders were
an officer had a wound from cut glass.
That is the only other injury
that I'm aware of.
We know
of the injuries of the students are
critical or
the three students are deceased.
The three students
who were shot are deceased.
Three staff members
who were shot are deceased.
That's a total of six victims.
And then you have the shooter
who was engaged
by two of our police officers
as part of the five member team.
And she is deceased
for a total of seven individuals
There are no other gunshot
victims, non-lethal
that I'm aware of at present.
Other people were shot.
Do you know how many people were shot
before the police engage the shooter?
No.
Was anyone that shot
anyone after they engaged the shooter?
Do you know if this year was
able to shoot anyone else
or have any connection to
We do not know who she is
at this juncture.
We're trying to identify her.
She does appear to be in her teens
again.
With two assault type rifles
and at least one pistol.
We like some things that are missing.
Incidents
that come to the school in the church
No, I'm not.
Was there for working in the school?
No.
This is a church
that operates a private school.
There was no Metro Police
personnel
assigned to that building at any time.
Finally, the two adults that were shot
may be confronted with the gun.
You said two? Yeah.
No, There are a total of three adults,
three adults
who have been fatally wounded.
Okay. One of them being the shooter?
No. Okay.
So let me let me go over this again.
You have a total of six victims,
three students who are deceased
and three adult
staff members
from the school who are deceased.
The shooter herself makes 7.2.
Three adults may be confronted her.
I do not.
Three other teachers.
There is video from the school
that we are viewing
now to try to learn
exactly how all of this happened.
Can you say where the victims
were located?
Within the hallway in a classroom?
I cannot at this juncture, as you know,
five of the six were transported.
So we will get that information
later in the day.
The police engage with the shooter
inside a classroom or in the hallway.
Another location
is an upper level part of the school
that's kind of a lobby type area.
It was not in a classroom per se.
All right.
We'll be back shortly with more detail.
A tweet out
give you a 15 minute or so notice
before the next one.
Okay. Next
All right.
That press came for a conference
in Nashville wrapping up.
We are learning more details.
Many details confirmed, many questions
still remain.
The Metropolitan Police Department
there in Nashville
saying
that the shooter was a young woman,
a female who was possibly in her teens.
They also confirmed the death toll.
Three children,
three adults
and the shooter for a total of seven.
I want to bring back in our senior
law enforcement analyst, Andrew McCabe.
Andrew, I think certainly what stuck out
most to me in that press conference
was that
the shooter was
a woman who was possibly in her teens.
What do you make of that?
It's exceedingly rare.
You know, mass shootings are committed
overwhelmingly by males, not
It's happened before that
we've had females engaged
in mass shootings.
But as I said,
Alex, it's unbelievably rare.
And in this case, I would say
made even more rare
by the fact
that she's potentially a teenager.
But I guess
we need more more facts on that.
I was also struck,
Alex, by the timing here.
So they received their first call,
the police did at 1013
and the shooter is dead by ten, 27.
So that means
you had a very, very fast
tactical response by law enforcement.
They had a five person team
that entered the building,
went immediately
to the sound of the gunfire
to the second floor
where the gun was being shot and engage
that shooter and eliminated her.
We also know that they responded
with what
the fire department referred to as an RTM
for rescue task force.
And what that tells us
is that the police department
and the fire department
have done extensive training
to understand
how to respond to mass
shootings together.
In a case
where you have
these sorts of task forces, you have
EMTs and folks
associated with the fire department
who actually have
ballistic tactical vests.
They go in with the tactical team
for the purpose of triaging
and attending to victims on scene before
the entire structure is
has been cleared by police.
It's the fastest,
most tactically sound way
to bring
medical resources into those victims
right away.
So what you have here
is about as highly evolved, well-trained
response
as you're going
to get any place in the country.
And still, we have seven victims.
We have a shooter
with two assault rifles and a handgun
that is very heavily
armed with
lots of rounds
of ammunition, undoubtedly.
And there is just
you know, it's hard to imagine
what people hear
from the few facts
we have to be a better response.
And yet,
it's still an absolute tragedy
for this community.
Yeah.
Six victims, three adults,
three children.
And I think Andrew
speaking to the speed of that response,
according to Metropolitan Police
and the fire department,
just there in that press conference,
there were no other wounded.
There was an officer
who hurt their hands on some glass.
But other than that,
there were no wounded that we know of.
Five people
were transported to the hospital
we were told.
They were all deceased.
But as you just touched on, Andrew,
not only is it exceedingly rare
that a young woman carries out a mass
shooting, more than 90% of these
shootings are carried out by men,
but this young woman also had access
to these extraordinarily strong firearms
to assault type rifles and a handgun.
So I imagine
law enforcement will be looking into
not only who she is,
they don't have her ID yet,
but certainly how she got a hold,
if she is indeed a minor
of these of these guns.
That's absolutely right.
And, you know, the the gun
restrictions are different
state by state, as we all know now.
And whether or not
she was able to legally possess
those those weapons, that's
that's something
for the investigators
and particularly the ATF to figure out.
But they're also going to be looking at
like where did where
if she wasn't able
to purchase these things
or have them lawfully.
How did she get them
She got them from her parents
or family members or friends.
And are those any of those folks
in a position to be held
responsible, criminally responsible
for what happened here today?
I thought it was also
excuse me, really notable, Alex, that
she was
she was interdicted
on the second floor of the school
and in what was described
as a lobby area.
So they got there fast enough
to stop her before
she got into a classroom.
She was still in kind of an open space
on the second floor,
not actually in a classroom,
which probably also saved many lives.
As we think
back to the horrible tragedy
that you've all day
in, the situation
where a shooter actually
was able
to kind of hide in a classroom
with those victims