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Tuesday 28 March 2023
3 children, 3 adults killed at Christian school in Nashville

By JONATHAN MATTISE and or emotional connection to
TRAVIS LOLLER the school. There’s an un-
Associated Press told story here.”
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Monday’s tragedy unfold-
female shooter wielding ed over roughly 14 minutes.
two “assault-style” rifles Police received the initial
and a pistol killed three stu- call about an active shoot-
dents and three adults at er at 10:13 a.m.
a private Christian school Officers began clearing
in Nashville on Monday the first story of the school
in the latest in a series of when they heard gunshots
mass shootings in a coun- coming from the second
try growing increasingly level, police spokesperson
unnerved by bloodshed in Don Aaron said during a
schools. news briefing.
Police said they believe the Two officers from a five-
28-year-old female shooter member team opened fire
was a former student at The in response, fatally shoot-
Covenant School, a Pres- ing the suspect at 10:27
byterian school founded a.m., Aaron said. He said
in 2001. She also died after there were no police of-
being shot by police and ficers present or assigned
investigators were immedi- to the school at the time of
ately sent to her Nashville- A police officer walks by an entrance to The Covenant School after a shooting in Nashville, Tenn. the shooting because it is a
area home. on Monday, March 27, 2023. church-run school.
The attack at The Cov- Associated Press The Covenant School’s
enant School which has ushered out of the build- “It’s ripping at the soul of than women, according to victims were pronounced
about 200 students from ing,” Metropolitan Nashville this nation, ripping at the Jonathan Metzl, a professor dead at the Monroe Carell
preschool through sixth Police Chief John Drake very soul of this nation,” of sociology and psychiatry Jr. Children’s Hospital and
grade, as well as roughly said at an afternoon news Biden said. at Vanderbilt University who Vanderbilt University Medi-
50 staff members comes conference. The suspect’s identity as has studied mass shootings cal Center. One officer
as communities around the The identities of the de- a woman surprised ex- for more than a decade. had a hand wound from
nation are reeling from a ceased and the suspect perts on mass shootings. Metzl listed those explana- cut glass. Other students
spate of school violence, have not been released. Female shooters make up tions as: Men have more walked to safety Monday,
including the massacre at The shooter’s motive was only about 5% to 8% of all testosterone, are socialized holding hands as they left
an elementary school in also not immediately clear. mass shooters, said Adam to be engaged in violence their school surrounded by
Uvalde, Texas, last year; President Joe Biden, speak- Lankford, a criminal justice and own more guns than police cars, to a nearby
a first grader who shot his ing at an unrelated event professor at the Univer- women. “There is some church to be reunited with
teacher in Virginia; and a at the White House on sity of Alabama who has story we don’t know here,” their parents.
shooting last week in Den- Monday, called the shoot- closely studied the psychol- Metzl said of the suspected Rachel Dibble, who was
ver that wounded two ad- ing a “family’s worst night- ogy and behavior of mass female shooter in Nash- at the church as families
ministrators. mare” and implored Con- shooters. Researchers be- ville. “From school shoot- reunited in the nearby
“I was literally moved to gress again to pass a ban lieve there are three main ings historically, very often church, described the
tears to see this and the on certain semi-automatic explanations for why men we think that people have scene as everyone being in
kids as they were being weapons. commit more shootings some historical connection “complete shock.” q

Train derails in rural North Dakota and

spills chemical

\WYNDMERE, N.D. (AP) — A said 31 of the 70 cars on the Railroad safety has been in
Canadian Pacific train de- train left the tracks around the spotlight nationally ever
railed in rural North Dakota 11:15 p.m. Sunday, and since last month’s fiery de-
Sunday night and spilled some of the cars leaked liq- railment of a Norfolk South-
hazardous materials. But lo- uid asphalt. ern train near East Pales-
cal authorities and the rail- But there are no waterways tine, Ohio. Roughly half of
road said there is no threat near where the derailment that town of about 5,000
to public safety. happened. people near the Pennsyl-
There were no injuries and The railroad’s hazardous vania border had to be
no fire associated with materials experts are work- evacuated after officials
the derailment, which oc- ing with local first respond- decided to release and
curred in a rural area out- ers to clean up the spill. burn toxic chemicals.
side Wyndmere, a town of Several roads in the area Federal regulators and
several hundred people were shut down. members of Congress
about 60 miles (97 kilome- It wasn’t immediately clear have proposed reforms This photo provided by Joshua Henderson shows a Canadian
ters) southwest of Fargo. what caused the derail- they want railroads to Pacific train derailed in rural North Dakota on Sunday, March
Canadian Pacific spokes- ment or exactly how much make to prevent future 26, 2023, which spilled hazardous materials, but local authorities
person Andy Cummings liquid asphalt spilled. derailments.q and the railroad said there is no threat to public safety.
Associated Press