‘Let’s go, let’s go’: Bodycam footage exhibits second cops shot Nashville college shooter lifeless
The six-minute video exhibits armed police getting into The Covenant School in Nashville as they hunt for shooter Audrey Hale, who shot and killed six folks, together with three nine-year-old kids.
New Delhi,UPDATED: Mar 29, 2023 08:34 IST
Body digital camera video seize picture courtesy of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department launched on March 28, 2023, exhibits suspect Audrey Hale (face blurred) mendacity on the bottom after being shot by law enforcement officials on the Covenant School constructing, Nashville (AFP picture)
By India Today World Desk: Dramatic physique digital camera footage of law enforcement officials responding to the taking pictures at a Christian college and taking down the suspect has been launched by the Metro Nashville Police Department.
The six-minute video exhibits armed police getting into The Covenant School as they hunt for shooter Audrey Hale, who shot and killed six folks, together with three nine-year-old kids, after breaking into the constructing with three loaded weapons.
The footage exhibits the police workforce, outfitted with assault rifles, systematically checking school rooms on the bottom flooring as sirens and alarms sound all through the constructing. “Metro Police,” officers yell.
“Let’s go, let’s go,” one other officer yells.
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Nashville Police have launched the bodycam footage and it can’t be confused sufficient how outstanding this response was. These males are absolute heroes. pic.twitter.com/aOT8IJyH04
— Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) March 28, 2023
They then cross via an open reception space earlier than figuring out gunshots upstairs. This leads the group of 5 to a balcony space the place Hale is gunned down.
Armed with two assault rifles and a pistol, 28-year-old Audrey Hale went on a taking pictures spree on the Christian grade college, leaving three youngsters and three employees members lifeless. Police mentioned she was a former pupil of the institute and had written a manifesto forward of the assault.
Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake mentioned on the information convention Hale had been beneath a physician’s look after an undisclosed emotional dysfunction. Hale had some type of weapons coaching and had amassed a set of weapons by legally buying seven firearms lately from 5 Nashville-area shops, mentioned Drake.
He added that Hale recognized as a transgender particular person, and that investigators imagine the suspect harboured “some resentment for having to go to” the Covenant School as a baby.
The chief declined to elaborate and didn’t say what position, if any, Hale’s gender identification, instructional background or different social or non secular dynamics might need performed. Investigators “don’t have a motive at this time,” he mentioned Tuesday.
(With inputs from Reuters)
Edited By:
Devika Bhattacharya
Published On:
Mar 29, 2023
