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March 29, 2023

Nashville School Shooter Had 7 Legally Purchased Firearms
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More information has emerged about the Nashville school shooter who
killed six people Monday, three of them 9-year-old students. This is
Nashville Police Chief John Drake.

Police Chief John Drake: "We've determined that Audrey bought seven
firearms from five different local gun stores here legally. They were
legally purchased. Three of those weapons were used yesterday during
this horrific tragedy. … She was under care, doctor's care, for an
emotional disorder. Law enforcement knew nothing about the treatment she
was receiving. But her parents felt that she should not own weapons."

A motive for the massacre has not yet been identified.

Police body-camera footage shows Nashville officers stopping the rampage
four minutes after arriving on the scene. The police response has been
compared to last year's mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in
Uvalde, Texas, where officers waited for 77 minutes before confronting
the shooter, while 21 people, including 19 students, were massacred,
almost all of them Latinx.


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