• Shooting in the United States The perpetrator of the Nashville shooting was a transgender former student with a detailed plan to kill
  • 28-year-old woman kills three children and three adults in another shooting at a U.S. school

Nashville police released video Tuesday showing officers entering a school and confronting a person who had killed three children and three adults in the latest school massacre in the United States.

The dramatic six-minute video complements another released Monday from surveillance cameras showing the attacker arriving in his vehicle at school, breaking glass doors and entering through one of them.

New video from Officer Rex Engelbert's body camera shows a woman greeting officers as they arrive at The Covenant School on Monday. "The children are all locked up, but there are two that we don't know where they are," she says. "OK, yes, ma'am," Engelbert replies.

The woman takes the cops to Fellowship Hall and tells them that the people inside had heard gunshots. "Upstairs there are several children," the woman says.

Three officers, including Engelbert, rifles raised, check classrooms one by one. "Police!" they shout as they move through the corridors. "Come on, let's go!" one of the officers shouts.

As alarms begin to sound at the school, an officer says, "It looks like it's upstairs." The officers climb the stairs, reach the second floor and enter the lobby. "Inside," one of the officers shouts. There you hear a gunshot.

The assailant, now dead, next to the windowNashville Police

"Get your hands off the gun!" one of the officers shouts, twice. Then the armed person is seen motionless, on the floor.

Police initially identified the person as 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale, but little information has been released about her gender. They say that years ago I was a student of that private and Christian institution. Hale had drawn a detailed map of the school, including possible entry points, and studied the building before carrying out the massacre, officials say.

Authorities initially said Hale was female, but at the afternoon news conference, the sheriff said Hale was transgender. After the conference, police spokesman Don Aaron declined to clarify how he should be identified.

In an email Tuesday, police spokeswoman Kristin Mumford said Hale "was listed as female at birth. I used male pronouns on a social media account."

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