Nashville Police released body camera video Tuesday showing officers entering a school and gunning down 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 on Monday from surveillance cameras where the attacker is seen arriving in his vehicle at the school, breaking glass doors with shots and entering through one of them.
New body camera video from officer Rex Engelbert 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,” says the woman. “OK, yes, ma’am,” Engelbert replies.
The woman leads the policemen to Fellowship Hall and tells them that the people inside had heard gunshots. “There are several children upstairs,” says the woman.
Three officers, including Engelbert, rifles raised, check the classrooms one by one. “Police!” they are shouting as they advance through the corridors. “Come on, come on!” one of the agents yells.
As the alarms start to go off at the school, an officer says, “Sounds like it’s upstairs.” The officers go up the stairs, reach the second floor and enter the lobby. “Inside,” shouts one of the agents. There a gunshot is heard.
“Keep your hands off the gun!” one of the officers yells, 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 she was a student at that private and Christian institution. Hale had drawn a detailed map of the school, including possible entry points, and surveyed the building before carrying out the massacre, authorities say.
Initially, authorities indicated that Hale was female, but at the evening news conference, the police chief said that Hale was transgender. After the conference, police spokesman Don Aaron declined to say how he was to be identified.
In an email Tuesday, police spokeswoman Kristin Mumford said Hale “was labeled female at birth. She was using masculine pronouns on a social media account.”
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