At least three children and three adults are dead after a shooting Monday at the Covenant School, a private Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, that teaches preschool through 6th grade, police said.
The shooter, who was identified as a 28-year-old Nashville woman, was killed during gunfire with police, authorities said.
Her identity and motive are yet to be confirmed.
A student reunification center has been set up at Woodmont Baptist Church, located at 2100 Woodmont Blvd.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland has been briefed on the school shooting in Nashville Monday morning that left six dead, according to a Justice Department spokesperson.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the Biden administration has been in contact with the Justice Department and local officials about the investigation.
Special agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives responded to the scene of the shooting, the Justice Department said, and are assisting local partners.
The 28-year-old shooter who killed six people at a private school in Nashville was once a student at the school, according to initial findings from police.
At a Monday press conference, Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake said, “From my initial findings, at one point, she was a student at that school.”
He added that he was unsure what year she had attended the school.
Drake did not give the woman’s name and said the investigation was ongoing.
He said police have identified where she lived in Nashville.
There was a “car nearby that gave us clues” into who she was, he added.
The shooter was killed by police after fatally shooting three adults and three children at Covenant School on Monday.
President Joe Biden called the shooting at a Nashville school that killed six people, including three children, “heartbreaking, a family’s worst nightmare.”
The president, who was speaking at Small Business Administration’s Women’s Business Summit Monday, said more needs to be done to stop gun violence.
The shooting took place at the Covenant School, a private Christian elementary school in Nashville that teaches preschool through 6th grade, Nashville police said.
Officials said the shooter was armed with at least two “assault-type” rifles and a handgun.
Biden called on Congress to pass an assault weapons ban, saying we “need to do more to protect our schools.”
“It’s about time we began to make some more progress,” he said.
A woman working across the street from the Covenant School described watching the police arrive at the scene of the Monday morning mass shooting in Nashville.
Jozen Reodica, who works at Shearwater Health across the street from the Covenant School, told CNN she realized something was wrong when she saw several police cars arrive at the scene.
