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What to know about the shooting at The Covenant School: At least three children and three adults were killed , and the shooter is also dead, police and hospital officials said The school has students from preschool through sixth grade The shooter was described by police as a 28-year-old Nashville woman 1m ago / 6:56 PM UTC Biden calls shooting 'a family's worst nightmare,' says gun violence is 'ripping the soul of this nation' Rebecca Shabad In response to the Nashville shooting, President Joe Biden said Monday that it's "heartbreaking, a family's worst nightmare." At a White House event hosting a summit for women-owned small businesses, Biden commended the local police, who he said responded "incredibly swiftly, within minutes, to end the danger." "We have to do more to stop gun violence. It's ripping our communities apart, ripping the soul of this nation, ripping at the very soul of the nation," Biden said. "And we have to do more to … [Read more...] about Nashville school shooting live updates: Six killed, including three children

One night in October, just a couple blocks from Harvard Square, a young crowd gathered at a music space called the Sinclair to catch a performance by Bill Callahan, the meticulous indie-rock lyricist who has been playing to bookish collegiate types since the early ‘90s. Callahan’s opening act, Lonnie Holley, had been playing to similar audiences for two years. A number of details about Holley made this fact surprising: He was decades older than just about everyone in the club and one of the few African-Americans. He says he grew up the seventh of 27 children in Jim Crow-era Alabama, where his schooling stopped around seventh grade. In his own, possibly unreliable telling, he says the woman who informally adopted him as an infant eventually traded him to another family for a pint of whiskey when he was 4. Holley also says he dug graves, picked trash at a drive-in, drank too much gin, was run over by a car and pronounced brain-dead, picked cotton, became a father at 15 (Holley now has 15 … [Read more...] about Lonnie Holley, the Insider’s Outsider

close Video Police cordon off an area after reports of a shooting at The Covenant School Police cordon off an area after reports of a shooting at The Covenant School, Nashville, Tennessee on Monday, March 27, 2023. (Emily Zanotti/Fox News Digital) The Covenant School (TCS) in Nashville, Tennessee, where at least three children and three adults were killed in a mass shooting on Monday morning, is a private Presbyterian school offering classes from preschool to sixth grade. Metro Nashville Police Department officers killed the shooter, a 28-year-old woman whose name has not been released. TCS has a goal "to educate twenty-first-century children in a way that prepares them to impact their culture and think in accordance with timeless Truth," according to a statement on its website from Covenant Head of School Dr. Katherine Koonce. Founded in 2001, the school, located in Nashville's Green Hills neighborhood southwest of downtown, has 33 … [Read more...] about Tennessee school shooting: What to know about Covenant School in Nashville