Three children and three adults have died after a shooter armed with several guns opened fired at a private Christian school in Nashville on Monday.
The alleged perpetrator, who has been identified as 28-year-old former student Audrey Hale, was carrying at least two semi-automatic rifles and a handgun, police said.
The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department received calls at 10:13am on Monday of a shooter at The Covenant School, which teaches primary school-age children.
Officers arriving on the scene reported hearing gunfire coming from the school's second floor, police spokesman Don Aaron told reporters.
Two officers from a five-member team later shot the perpetrator, who was pronounced dead by 10.27am.
"The police department response was swift," Aaron said.
Three students were pronounced dead after arriving at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt with gunshot wounds, hospital spokesman John Howser said in a statement. Three adult staff members were also killed.
Reacting to the shooting in Washington, US President Joe Biden urged Congress again to pass more gun reform legislation.
"It's sick," he said, addressing the issue during an event at the White House.
"We have to do more to protect our schools so they aren't turned into prisons... I call on Congress again to pass my assault weapons ban."
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