Three kids and three grown-ups were killed following a mass taking shots at Pledge School in Nashville's Green Slopes area on Monday morning, authorities said.
The thought shooter, who was lethally shot by police, was distinguished as 28-year-old Audrey Sound from Nashville, specialists said. CBS News is endeavoring to affirm Solidness' orientation character.
Authorities said that the shooter was equipped with "at any rate" two attack rifles and a handgun.
Police said their fundamental examination shows that the shooter was at one at once at the school, Nashville Police Boss John Drake said. He didn't know precisely when the shooter might have joined in.
Contract, established in 2001, is a confidential Christian school with 33 educators and up to 210 understudies beginning in preschool through sixth grade, as per the school site.
Nashville Police Boss John Drake said at a news gathering that the shooting was a designated assault. Drake said police found "a pronouncement" as well as arranging material.
"Still up in the air there were maps drawn of the school exhaustively of reconnaissance, passage focuses, and so on," Drake said. "We know and accept that passage was acquired by shooting through one of the entryways, is the way they really got into the school."
The police reaction
The shooter entered Contract School through a side entryway and navigated the structure, moving from the primary floor to the subsequent floor and "discharging numerous shots," Metropolitan Nashville Police Division representative Wear Aaron said.
Answering officials saw the shooter terminating on the subsequent level, and by then, they "locked in" her, Aaron said. The shooter was lethally shot by two of the five answering cops at the scene, he said.