A candlelight vigil Wednesday evening in Nashville will feature first lady Jill Biden, Sheryl Crow and other luminaries as the city grieves the three children and three adults killed in a shooting at a private Christian school.
The victims were killed in the attack at the Covenant School, authorities said.Hundreds gathered Wednesday at a candlelight vigil in Nashville to honor and mourn the three children and three adults who were killed in a shooting at a Christian school this week.at The Covenant School was somber and at times tearful, as speaker after speaker read the names of the victims and offered condolences to their loved ones.
Members of the Selected First Motorcycle Club join others in prayer at a makeshift memorial for victims of a shooting at the Covenant School campus, in Nashville, Tennessee, March 28, 2023. - A heavily armed former student killed three young children"I know what it’s like to be a parent — what it feels like, like you’re drowning and can’t move, and that weakness and that hole that comes in your stomach," she said.
Price, who has been particularly vocal about Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s position on state gun laws, tweeted after the shooting: "Our children are dying and being shot in school, but you’re more worried about drag queens than smart gun laws? You have blood on your hands." Crow and Secor also called for stricter gun laws in tweets posted after the shooting.
Earlier Wednesday, Pope Francis sent condolences to Nashwville and offered prayers to those affected. Police said the shooter, identified as Audrey Hale, was under a doctor’s care for an undisclosed emotional disorder and was not on the radar of police before the attack. Hale was fatally shot by police at the school Monday.Nashville school shooting victims identified
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