Metro Nashville Police Department has released body-camera footage from the two officers who shot the Covenant School shooter. CNN is reviewing the footage.
[Breaking news update, published at 10:34 a.m. ET] [Original story, published at 10:15 a.m. ET] The 28-year-old shooter who killed three children and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville on Monday sent an ominous message to a childhood friend minutes before carrying out the rampage, the friend told CNN on Tuesday. In an Instagram message to Averianna Patton, a Nashville radio host, just before 10 a.m.
Armed with three firearms, the shooter had gotten into the school by firing through glass doors and climbing through to get inside, surveillance video released by Metro Nashville Police shows. Pointing an assault-style weapon, the shooter walked through the school’s hallways, the video shows. As the first five officers arrived, they heard gunfire from the second floor. The shooter was “firing through a window at arriving police cars,” police said in the news release.
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