Nashville School Shooting: Three Students Killed, Shooter Dead

By FOX News
Posted on 03/27/23 | News Source: FOX News

First responders in Tennessee are on the scene of a school shooting at a Nashville elementary school.

Three students were killed in the attack, according to Vanderbilt Medical Center. Policeolice say officers engaged with and killed the shooter. Covenant School is a private Christian institution for students up to 6th grade, according to its website.

"We are responding to an active aggressor at 33 Burton Hills Blvd Covenant School. We can confirm we have multiple patients," the Nashville Fire Department said Monday.

"Parents coming to the school should go to 20 Burton Hills at this time, this is an active scene," the statement continued.

The Metro Nashville PD confirmed the shooter's death in a statement, adding that the school was already working on reunifying parents and children a safe distance away from the Burton Hills Blvd the school is on.

"An active shooter event has taken place at Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, on Burton Hills Dr. The shooter was engaged by MNPD and is dead. Student reunification with parents is at Woodmont Baptist Church, 2100 Woodmont Blvd.," the department wrote in a statement.