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Maryland's appeals court reinstated Adnan Syed's murder conviction Tuesday. Syed was released from prison in October after Baltimore City State Attorney Marilyn Mosby said DNA evidence supported his innocence. Lee's family had filed an appeal, arguing that they were not properly notified of the efforts to release Syed last year. The Maryland appeals court ruled in their favor.
A new hearing will be held about the evidence to vacate Syed's conviction. The previous murder charges have been reinstated in the meantime. The decision and new hearing are seen as a procedural issue, and there is no reason to believe Syed will be sent back to prison. The prosecutor has indicated that there is evidence pointing to other suspects, and that the investigation continues.
Lee's family said they were delighted with the court's decision. They released a statement explaining their satisfaction, "We are equally pleased that the Appellate Court is directing the lower court to conduct a transparent hearing where the evidence will be presented in open court and the court’s decision will be based on evidence for the world to see."
Erica Suter, an attorney for Syed, said in a statement Tuesday that the appeal was "not about Adnan’s innocence but about notice and mootness." Suter added that Syed's team intends to seek a review in state Supreme Court. "Ensuring justice for Hae Min Lee does not require injustice for Adnan."
Lee was 18 when she was found buried in Baltimore’s Leakin Park in 1999. Investigators targeted Syed, her ex-boyfriend, as the prime suspect. Syed was sentenced to life in prison in 2000. Advocates have said that the evidence used to convict him was unreliable and that police ignored leads to other potential suspects.
Last year, Baltimore officials said new DNA testing on Lee’s clothing showed DNA belonging to “multiple contributors.” Syed’s DNA was not found in the new tests. The state said there were two other possible suspects in Lee's murder, one of whom had threatened to kill her. Syed's case was subject to a Brady violation, as prosecutors failed to disclose the evidence to his defense team.
Prosecutor Becky Feldman said moments before a judge vacated Syed’s conviction, “The state has lost confidence in the integrity of this conviction and believes that it is in the interest of justice and fairness that his convictions be vacated.” Feldman contacted Lee's brother, Young, on Sept. 12 to let him know the state was filing a motion to vacate the conviction, according to Tuesday's ruling. He was then given only a few days' notice of the hearing time, which would have required him to fly from his home in California to attend in person.
In a dissenting opinion, Judge Stuart R. Berger noted that Lee's family does not have a right to speak at hearing over whether to vacate a conviction and that electronic attendance was most likely sufficient to satisfy the family's rights. The trial judge also allowed Lee's brother to make a statement to the court.
Syed’s family friend Rabia Chaudry, an attorney who took his case to "Serial" producer Sarah Koenig, tweeted that she would host an Instagram Live session Wednesday to discuss the development. Rabia said that she stands by "the integrity of the evidence that exonerated Adnan and urge the Baltimore Police and States Attorney’s office to find the source of the DNA on the victims shoes and find Hae Min Lee’s actual killer."
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Norway Repatriates Daesh Brides and Children from Syria
Norway has repatriated two sisters who travelled to Syria as teenagers to join Daesh, along with their three children. Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt cited the “extremely bad and dangerous” conditions in the displacement camp where they were being held, as well as the fact that the children were living in unacceptable circumstances. The two women are aged 29 and 25 and have six-, seven-, and eight-year-old daughters with Daesh fighters. Although they will be arrested upon their return, as they have requested assistance, Huitfeldt noted that international agencies such as the United Nations and may Kurdish authorities have supported repatriation in such circumstances. The situation reflects cases in other EU countries where individuals left to join the Islamic State and are now keen to return home.
Powerful Storm Hits Already-Struggling California
California has been hit again by a powerful storm, which brought with it more wind, rain and snow to an already-battered state. While forecasters warned that coastal mountains and the Sierra Nevada could expect accumulations of up to 4ft, the storm was not likely to be as intense as previous ones. Nevertheless, Californians were left with a backcountry avalanche warning and highway chain requirements. The risks the weather poses to infrastructure and homes have been significant, with flooding, landslides and snow damage already having been recorded. On the plus side, the state’s two largest reservoirs have regained much of their lost water content. The boost has allowed more than 250 irrigation functionaries to increase the amount of water they can supply by up to 80% and city and industrial users to take 100% of their usual quantity rather than the reduced amount of 75%.
US Distorted Information About Nord Stream Blasts Claims Russian Embassy
The Russian embassy to the US has accused Washington of distorting information around the alleged involvement of US intelligence services in explosions that damaged the Nord Stream pipelines in September of last year. The UN Security Council was unable to get a majority to call for an international inquiry into the incident, which Russia is continuing to demand. It is asserting that the US is doing “everything possible” to prevent impartial experts establishing the circumstances around the incident. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh previously suggested in February 2021 that US navy divers had been responsible for destroying the pipelines; the White House described such claims as ‘utterly false’.
New Jersey’s First Judge Wearing a Hijab Sworn In
Attorney Nadia Kahf has become the first US Superior Court judge to wear a hijab. Kahf, who specializes in family and immigration law, was nominated by New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and signed in last week. Kahf took the oath of office with her hand on a Qur’an that had once belonged to her grandmother. Kahf is the third Muslim woman to become a US Superior Court judge. She is also a board member of the New Jersey chapter of CAIR, an Islamic civil rights group.
Mike Pence Ordered to Testify About Trump Conversation
Former Vice President Mike Pence has been ordered to testify to a grand jury regarding conversations he had with former president Donald Trump leading up to the storming of the Capitol on 6 January 2021. Though Pence can decline to answer questions specifically relating to the storming of the building, he must attend the grand jury. Pence has the option to appeal the subpoena. Previous reports had suggested he intended to resist a grand jury subpoena.
Issa Brothers Consider Bid for Subway
Billionaire British Muslims, the Issa brothers, may launch an £8bn ($9.87bn) bid to take over US sandwich chain Subway. Mohsin and Zuber began their empire with a single petrol station in Lancashire, UK. The group has since expanded into retail and fast food. The Issas recently established themselves in the US with the purchase of Speedway convenience stores last year.
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The shooter who killed three children and three adults at a Christian school in Nashville legally bought seven firearms in recent years and hid the guns from their parents before the attack, police have said.
Monday's violence at The Covenant School is the latest school shooting to roil the nation. Three 9-year-old students were killed, as well as the head of the grade school, a custodian and a substitute teacher.
The suspect — Audrey Hale, 28 — was a former student at the school. Police said the shooter did not target specific victims.
Authorities said Hale was not on their radar before the attack but was under a doctor's care for an undisclosed emotional disorder.
Police have released videos of the shooting, including edited surveillance footage that shows the shooter's car driving up to the school, glass doors being shot out and the shooter ducking through one of them. Additional video — from Officer Rex Engelbert's bodycam — shows a woman greeting police outside as they arrive at The Covenant School on Monday.
Response times to school shootings have come under greater scrutiny after the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas. In Nashville, police have said 14 minutes passed from the initial call about a shooter in the school to when the suspect was killed, but they have not said how long it took them to arrive.
The victims were children Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all aged 9 years. The adults killed were Cynthia Peak, 61, Katherine Koonce, 60, and Mike Hill, 61.
Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake did not say exactly what motivated Hale, but said investigators believe the shooter had "some resentment for having to go to that school". He provided chilling examples of the shooter's elaborate planning.
President Joe Biden said he had spoken to the Nashville chief of police, mayor and senators in Tennessee. He pleaded with Congress to pass stronger gun safety laws, including a ban on assault weapons.
Founded as a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church, the school has about 200 students from preschool to year six, as well as roughly 50 staff members.
Before Monday's violence in Nashville, there had been seven mass killings at K-12 schools across the US since 2006, in which four or more people were killed within a 24-hour period, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.
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Sergio Romo got a warm welcome from Giants fans one last time Monday as he took the mound at Oracle Park in spring training for his final appearance before retiring. But the umpire wasn't going to let the celebration get in the way of pace of play. Before Romo could even throw his first official pitch to start the top of the seventh inning against the Athletics, he was called for not one, but two pitch clock violations.
Romo was called for two pitch clock violations, first for taking too long to conclude warmups and then for taking too long to throw the first pitch of the at-bat. He walked Conner Capel after throwing just three pitches: two balls and a strike. “I didn’t expect to walk a hitter on two pitches thrown,” Romo told NBC Sports Bay Area.
Romo was drafted by the Giants in the 28th round of the 2005 MLB Draft and debuted for them in 2008. He immediately became an impact reliever in their bullpen and eventually assumed the closer's role when Brian Wilson had Tommy John surgery to start the 2012 season. After the 2016 season, Romo bounced around in the majors, but re-signed with the Giants in spring training 2023 to officially close out his 15-year MLB career with the team that started it all.
Throughout spring, each time Romo has been asked for an autograph by a kid, he has asked the kid to sign his hat first. He wore the hat signed by all his young fans when he made his final appearance on Monday. Romo's curtain call proved to be a special moment for the standout reliever. He entered with his "El Mechon" walk-in, his longtime bullpen entrance song. After giving up back-to-back hits following his walk to Capel, longtime Giants teammate Hunter Pence came out to call for a reliever and officially close the book on Romo's MLB career.
Romo ends his MLB career with an All-Star appearance and three World Series rings. The 40-year-old pitched to a 3.21 ERA in 722.2 career innings of work with 789 strikeouts and only 179 walks. He held opposing hitters to just a .216/.271/.360 slash line. "Very fitting to find some closure in what literally is for me, was a storybook career," Romo said, according to the Associated Press.
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The shooter who killed three children and three adults at a school in Nashville sent a series of chilling messages to a friend moments before the attack, warning “something bad is about to happen”. In an apparent suicide message received minutes before the rampage, 28-year-old assailant Audrey Elizabeth Hale wrote an Instagram note to a former school basketball teammate that also declared: “I’m planning to die today.”
News of the dark messages came as police released bodycam footage on Tuesday showing the moment officers confronted and killed the shooter by firing multiple bullets into the assailant’s body minutes after storming into The Covenant School, a private Christian school where Hale was once a student.The dramatic six minutes of footage showed police on the first floor of the school, scoping out one classroom after another before heading up the stairs to the second floor.
While a motive for the shooting remains unclear, Nashville Police Chief John Drake said investigators believe Hale, who police identified as transgender, may have harboured “some resentment” for having attended The Covenant School as a child. He also told reporters on Tuesday that Hale was under medical care for an “emotional disorder” but managed to legally buy seven firearms - all of which were hidden from their parents. But while the school was singled out for the attack, police reiterated that the individual victims were targeted at random.
The bloody episode marked the 130th mass shooting this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as four or more people shot or killed, not including the shooter. On his way to North Carolina today, President Joe Biden once again pleaded with the Congress to pass stronger gun safety laws, including a ban on assault weapons, noting he had already used “the full extent of my executive authority” to tighten the system.
The shooting took place on Monday morning, local time. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department began receiving calls about a shooter at 10:13am, with the suspect was pronounced dead by 10:27am. Averianna Patton told NBC that she saw the Instagram messages Hale sent at 9:57am that morning. She said she called the suicide prevention hotline, which instructed her to contact the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office. The office, in turn, directed her to a non-emergency hotline. According to police chief Drake, Hale conducted surveillance of the school building before carrying out the massacre, prepared a detailed map with potential entry points, and even planned out the clothes worn that day.
The shooting has put the spotlight on the Tennessee legislature, where politicians are currently working to loosen gun control laws, including lowering the minimum age for carrying guns from 21 to 18. In 2021, the state passed a bill allowing people aged 21 and older to carry loaded handguns in public - openly or concealed - without requiring a permit.
“The cold horror of this attack is unthinkable,” said Dr Katrina Green, an emergency physician practicing in Nashville. “Our state leaders need to take a hard look at their values. Our children deserve to grow up in safe and healthy communities, free from the fear of gun violence. The right of our children to live should trump anyone’s right to own an assault weapon.”
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A survivor of the Highland Park shooting, Ashbey Beasley, was on her way to meet the mother of a mass shooting victim when she learned that a school shooting was happening nearby at The Covenant School in Nashville.
On Monday, three children and three adults were killed by a 28-year-old shooter who was then gunned down by police at a Presbyterian private school in Nashville. Police say the shooter was a former student of The Covenant School and was armed with two assault-style rifles and a handgun.
Nashville police identified the victims on Twitter as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all age nine; Cynthia Peak, age 61, Katherine Koonce, age 60, and Mike Hill, age 61.
Later that day, Beasley jumped in front of cameras during a livestream — hijacking a police press conference — to make an impassioned plea to end gun violence.
Beasley, a gun control lobbyist who survived the 2022 shooting at a Fourth of July parade with her young son, was on her way to meet Shaundelle Brooks, whose son was killed in a 2018 Waffle House shooting, when Brooks learned that her surviving son’s school was on lockdown due to the shooting at The Covenant School.
After experiencing a “wave of emotions,” Beasley and Brooks decided to divert and meet at the scene of the shooting.
“Are you freaking kidding me right now?” Beasley told the Chicago Tribune by phone as she drove to the school. “What are our lawmakers doing?”
As a news conference with Metro Nashville Police was concluding, Beasley stepped up to the microphone and asked reporters, “aren’t you guys tired of covering this?”
“Aren’t you guys tired of being here and having to cover all of these mass shootings?” Beasley said. “I’m from Highland Park, Illinois. My son and I survived a mass shooting over the summer. I am in Tennessee on a family vacation, with my son, visiting my sister-in-law.”
“I have been lobbying in D.C. since we survived a mass shooting in July. I have met with over 130 lawmakers,” Beasley said. “How is this still happening? How are our children still dying and why are we failing them?”
Beasley’s comments were caught on video by multiple news organizations and broadcast live on Fox News.
“Gun violence is the number one killer of children and teens,” Beasley said shortly before Fox News cut away, the Chicago Tribune reported. “It has overtaken cars. Assault weapons are contributing to the border crisis and fentanyl.”
“These mass shootings will continue to happen until our lawmakers step up and pass gun safety legislation,” she said.
Beasley had stopped in Nashville for the visit after making her 12th lobbying trip to Washington D.C. since surviving the Highland Park shooting with her then six-year-old son Beau.
Beau, now seven, spoke at the “Generation Lockdown” summit at the National Mall on Friday — a few days before the Nashville shooting — alongside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to call for Congressional action on gun control.
“I am a mass shooting survivor,” Beau said into a megaphone, which was being held by his mother. “I ran for my life at a parade. I am never going to a parade again. Assault weapons don’t belong at parades.”
Beasley told USA Today that she and her son have been struggling to cope with lingering trauma and use lobbying as a means of healing.
“The activism has sort of become my therapy,” Beasley said. “There’s no absolute answer that’s going to prevent every single gun death. But we have to do everything in our power to do the things that we know will work.”
In a separate event, Joylyn Bukovac, a reporter with NBC affiliate WSMV, revealed on the air that she herself was a survivor of a school shooting while reporting on The Covenant School.
Bukovac shared that her Alabama middle school was once the scene of a mass shooting and she witnessed one of her peers be shot and killed.
“I’ve seen exactly what gun violence can do first hand,” Bukovac said, recounting the fear and shock she experienced while waiting for police to secure the school.
After her report, her outpouring of spontaneous emotion prompted a resident who was listening in from nearby to give Bukovac a hug.
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Sergio Romo got a warm welcome from Giants fans one last time Monday as he took the mound at Oracle Park in spring training for his final appearance before retiring. But the umpire wasn't going to let the celebration get in the way of pace of play.
Before Romo could even throw his first official pitch to start the top of the seventh inning against the Athletics, he was called for not one, but two pitch clock violations. He took to long too conclude warmups, which resulted in the first.
Then, as the crowd was revving up, he was called for a second, this time for taking too long to throw the first pitch of the at-bat. He walked Conner Capel after throwing just three pitches: two balls and a strike.
“I didn’t expect to walk a hitter on two pitches thrown,” Romo told NBC Sports Bay Area. “It is what it is. They've got a protocol. They’re getting ready for the season too. It was a lot of fun, it really, really was. You talk about being nervous to pitch a game and before tonight, I couldn’t tell you the last time I was nervous to get in the game.”
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Romo was drafted by the Giants in the 28th round of the 2005 MLB Draft and debuted for them in 2008. Having already won one World Series with the team in 2010, Romo closed out the Giants' second World Series victory of the decade with a strikeout of Miguel Cabrera in Game 4 of the 2012 World Series. Though he was no longer the closer in 2014, he won a third ring with the team when the Giants beat the Royals.
After the 2016 season, Romo bounced around in the majors, spending time with the Dodgers, Rays, Marlins, Twins, Athletics, Mariners and Blue Jays before re-signing with the Giants in spring training 2023 to officially close out his 15-year MLB career with the team that started it all. Throughout spring, each time Romo has been asked for an autograph by a kid, he has asked the kid to sign his hat first. He wore the hat signed by all his young fans when he made his final appearance on Monday.
Romo's curtain call proved to be a special moment for the standout reliever. He entered with his "El Mechon" walk-in, his longtime bullpen entrance song. After giving up back-to-back hits following his walk to Capel, longtime Giants teammate Hunter Pence came out to call for a reliever and officially close the book on Romo's MLB career. Romo ends his MLB career with an All-Star appearance and three World Series rings. The 40-year-old pitched to a 3.21 ERA in 722.2 career innings of work with 789 strikeouts and only 179 walks. He held opposing hitters to just a .216/.271/.360 slash line.
"Very fitting to find some closure in what literally is for me, was a storybook career," Romo said, according to the Associated Press.
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Six people died in a shooting at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee. Footage from police body cameras was released after the incident. All the deceased Covenant School students were just nine years old, and the staffers were in their 60s.
Police officers were recorded arriving at the school, entering some classrooms with rifles raised as alarms rang out. The footage ends with several shots fired toward the attacker, Audrey Elizabeth Hale, 28, a transgender man, after she had killed three students and three staffers. Audrey, who was shot by police, had planned to die by suicide, according to a former middle school basketball teammate she had messaged on Instagram just minutes before carrying out the attack.
The students who died were Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, each nine years old. The staffers were head of school Katherine Koonce, 60; substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, 61; and custodian Mike Hill, 61. Hallie Scruggs was the daughter of Chad Scruggs, who is the lead pastor at Covenant Presbyterian Church.
Mike Hill was identified in a Facebook post as "the last employee he hired" when the author ran the kitchen at the Covenant church and school more than 13 years ago. The author believes that Hill's sacrifice may have saved lives. Hale had apparently drawn up a manifesto detailing the shooting leading up to the shooting at Covenant School.
Audrey had been an illustrator and graphic designer. A headmaster of the Covenant School from 2004 to 2008 remembers Hale as a third grader at the school in 2005 and a fourth grader in 2006. The police department responded quickly to the 911 call, with officers entering the first story of the school and hearing shots coming from the second level.
The Covenant School was founded in 2001 and serves students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade. Slightly more than 200 students and 42 staff members are present on a given day at the school, which is located next to a Nashville Fire Department station and less than a mile south of Nashville's largest shopping district. The school’s motto is “Shepherding hearts. Empowering Minds. Celebrating Childhood.”
U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., whose district includes the site of Monday's mass shooting in Nashville, faced criticism from gun control advocates for a Christmas photo he posted on Facebook featuring his family posing with guns. The congressman’s wife and two of his three children were pictured smiling and holding firearms in front of a Christmas tree.
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A heavily armed 28-year-old killed six people at a Nashville elementary school in a devastating mass shooting on Monday morning. Audrey Hale, a transgender man who used he/him pronouns and a former student at the elementary school, allegedly entered The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, just after 10am. Inside, the shooter opened fire on students and staff, killing six victims.
Students Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all aged nine, Head of School Katherine Koonce, 60, Cynthia Peak, 61, and Mike Hill, 61, all died in the attack. Two responding police officers shot the suspect dead.
Nashville police said on Monday the shooter was 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale. Police have identified the suspected shooter by their name at birth. Hale reportedly was a transgender man who used he/him pronouns, though law enforcement officials initially described the suspect as a woman in the aftermath of the shooting. Police did not provide another name. Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake said in a press conference on Monday that Hale once attended the school. An illustrator and graphic designer who attended Nossi College of Art, Hale does not appear to have had any criminal record prior to Monday’s massacre.
Neighbours have described the shooter as a quiet person from a family without any apparent interest in guns. They expressed their shock after the attack, saying that there is nothing that would have led them to believe that the shooter was capable of such a thing, or that anyone in that family would have access to guns. Another neighbour described Hale as coming from a “great family.”
Nashville Police Chief John Drake did not say what drove the killer to open fire but provided chilling examples of her elaborate planning for the attack. In the course of their investigation, officers discovered manifesto-like writings and apparent research into the facilities and entry points at Covenant. Writings recovered from Hale also revealed that the attack was calculated and planned. The police chief said on Monday that officers have looked into a vehicle and an address linked to the 28-year-old. At Hale’s home, authorities seized a sawed-off shotgun, a second shotgun, and other evidence, police said.
Monday’s tragedy unfolded over roughly 14 minutes. The manifesto “indicates there was going to be shootings at multiple locations, and that the school was one of them." The Covenant School was singled out for attack but the individual victims were targeted at random. Hale sent a series of direct messages to a friend via Instagram on Monday morning, revealing plans to die by suicide and telling Ms Patton “this is my last goodbye” and that she would soon be reading about it “on the news after I die”.
Hale was armed with three guns including two assault-type weapons and one handgun. Officials said that at least two of the three weapons used in the shooting were believed to have been bought legally in Nashville. Nashville Police released images of the weapons used in the attack. The guns were decorated with stickers, while one of the rifles had the word “hell” written on it.
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Audrey Hale, 28, a transgender artist, opened fire at a Christian elementary school in Tennessee, killing six people, including three nine-year-old students. The perpetrator had a map of the building and carried out surveillance outside the Covenant School, where she was previously a student, before conducting the massacre. Hale shot down the school's door and moved through the hallways, firing at her victims.
Although authorities have yet to confirm a motive for the killings, Nashville Police Chief John Drake stated that investigators believed Hale may have harboured "some resentment for having to go to that school" as a child. Hale previously had no criminal record but had detailed plans to carry out shootings at multiple locations, as noted in a manifesto seized by FBI agents. The Covenant School was targeted for the attack, but the individual victims were chosen at random.
Chief Drake referred to the suspect as 'she', although the shooter was transgender and used the pronouns 'he/his' online. Hale's LinkedIn page listed recent jobs in graphic design and grocery delivery and referred to the shooter as 'he'. Hale also had a social media account promoting her art under the name 'Aiden'.
Hale's art included a drawing of Jack Nicholson from The Shining, with lettering including his catchphrase 'Here's Johnny?' Another piece featured the words 'Red Rum', written on a mirror in a scene from the 1980 horror film. Hale also created an image of some feet stretching up towards the sky, with a person in recline, perhaps swinging on a swing.
A friend of Hale's, who wished to remain anonymous, described Hale as 'sweet and funny' hours after the shooting. The Covenant School serves preschool through sixth-grade students and held an active-shooter training program in 2022.
Nashville police arrived at the scene promptly, following calls about a shooter at 10.13am. Two officers shot the assailant in a lobby area, and the suspect was declared dead by 10.27 am. Hale was armed with two assault-style weapons and a 9 millimeter pistol and had gained entry to the school by shooting through the window of a side door.
Two of the three weapons used in the attack were legal, and Hale was carrying a significant amount of ammunition.
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