Unlike last spring in Uvalde, Tex., the officers at the Covenant School in Nashville rushed right in. Body-camera footage shows heavily armed officers sweeping classrooms until they find and kill the suspect — a police response experts call “textbook.”
The Nashville shooter, Audrey Hale, also was heavily armed, with three guns, two of them assault-type weapons, according to Nashville police. The school was locked down and its hallways deserted when police found Hale alone on the second floor, according to the footage released Tuesday. The three young students and three employees who were killed are not clearly visible on the video footage, and no other potential victims appear to be nearby.
“They don’t waste any time going in, and they put the rifle first, which is your best option,” said Marko Galbreath, a former police officer and founder of T4Tactics, a Virginia-based company that specializes in active-shooter training. Galbreath said many in the law-enforcement community sharpened their active-shooter plans after Uvalde, stressing the importance of going after the shooter right away.
Drake said Hale, who had legally purchased multiple guns, had previously been under a doctor’s care for an undisclosed emotional disorder. Hale’s parents, the chief added, told law enforcement officials after the shooting they had felt Hale should not own weapons.
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