

The officers shot and killed Hale at 10:27 a.m. He is just a few steps behind Engelbert as the group enters the atrium.Īfter Engelbert shoots Hale, officers rush the suspect, and Collazo fires four more times.Įngelbert is a four-year veteran of the force, and Collazo is a nine-year veteran. "We are grieving tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our school and church."Ī day after the shooting at the Covenant School, Robin Wolfenden prays at a makeshift memorial for the victims outside the school building.īody camera footage from a second officer, Michael Collazo, shows him entering the school on the first floor with a group of other officers.Ĭollazo and the other officers reach the second floor, where one says, "We've got one down," as loud gunshots are heard. "Our community is heartbroken," the school said in a statement on Monday. The shooting occurred at the Covenant School, a private elementary school on the grounds of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nashville's Green Hills neighborhood. Six people - including three children - were killed in the shooting, and the suspected attacker was killed by police within minutes of the first call of an active shooter.Īudrey Hale, whom police identified as the shooter, had bought seven firearms - including the three guns used in the attack - legally and had been in treatment for an emotional disorder, Nashville Police Chief John Drake said Tuesday. Nashville, Tenn., authorities on Tuesday released graphic body camera footage showing the fatal confrontation between police and an armed assailant who attacked a grade school on Monday morning. Nashville Police Chief John Drake speaks at a news briefing on Tuesday at the entrance to the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.
