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March 28, 2023

Six Killed, Including Three Students, in Shooting at Nashville, TN, Elementary School
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Nashville, Tennessee, is mourning after six people were killed in a
shooting Monday at a private Christian elementary school. All three
students shot and killed were 9 years old. They were identified as
Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney. The adults killed
in the shooting were identified as Katherine Koonce, the head of the
school; Cynthia Peak, a substitute teacher; and Mike Hill, a custodian
who'd worked at the school for 13 years. Police say the shooter was
armed with two assault-style weapons and a handgun and shot their way
through a side door to enter the school before being killed by police.
Officials say the shooter was a former student at the school and had
written a manifesto laying out plans for the attack that included maps
of the building. A live Fox News report in Nashville about the shooting
was interrupted by Ashbey Beasley, a gun control advocate and survivor
of the July 4, 2022, mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois. 

Ashbey Beasley: "Aren't you guys tired of covering this? Aren't you guys
tired of being here and having to cover all of these mass shootings? I'm
from Highland Park, Illinois. My son and I survived a mass shooting over
the summer. I am in Tennessee on a family vacation with my son, visiting
my sister-in-law. I have been lobbying in D.C. since we survived a mass
shooting in July. I have met with over 130 lawmakers. How is this still
happening? How are our children still dying, and why are we failing
them? Gun violence is the number one killer of children and teens. It
has overtaken cars."

At the White House, President Biden once again called on Congress to
pass an assault weapons ban.


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