The principal confronted the school shooter—he was killed himself

Kathryn Consey, 60, gave her life as she tried to stop the mass shooting that took place at the elementary school she ran in Nashville.

Three nine-year-olds and three staff members were killed at a private Christian school in Tennessee (USA) on Monday, when Audrey Elizabeth Hill (28 years old) brutally shot her way through the school doors before random students and staff became her victims.

Face the shooter

As the principal of a school in the USA, Consey made sure students and staff were trained for a possible school shooting.

Nashville City Councilman Ross Polley told FOX 17 News that Kuhn immediately ended the Zoom meeting after the first shot, and did not hesitate to go after the perpetrator.

– She immediately ended the conversation, got up and walked towards the shooter, he says to the channel.

Police Chief John Drake confirmed in a press conference that the principal was involved in a confrontation, and was killed in a corridor of the school.

– I did what school principals do; Protect their children, says the city council.

The local priest, John Bourgeois, also expresses the heroic act of the rector.

He wrote that she gave her life in defense of the children in her care.

In addition to Concey, her classmates, Cynthia Beck and substitute teacher Mike Hill, were also killed. Three nine-year-olds, Evelyn Dechhaus, Haley Scruggs and William Kenny, were also killed.

The perpetrator was also killed by the police.

Buy guns legally

Hale prepared a detailed map of the school and a statement attacking the school of which she herself was a pupil.

She had purchased seven guns and used three of them, two rifles and a revolver, during the shooting. Police said all the weapons were purchased legally.

Hale has identified as transgender in a number of media.

She was born a woman, but listed the male gender as a pronoun on LinkedIn, suggesting that Hill was a transgender man, police spokeswoman Christine Mumford tells The Associated Press. The New York Times.

When asked if the shooter’s gender identity was linked to the attack, Police Chief John Drake replied that they were investigating all leads.

At the moment, Hill’s motive is not known. One theory behind the attack is that Hill may have hated going to Christian school, according to the police chief.

Hill was dueling with his parents, and it was there that the police found the detailed map and statement about the attack.

According to the police chief, Hill had plans for a larger attack as well on another school in the area. Perhaps I gave up on this one because the school had higher security.

on Twitter Nashville Mayor John Cooper writes that Nashville is now part of the long, horrible list of cities with school shootings in the United States.

My condolences to the families of the victims, he wrote.

Automatic weapons will be banned

On the same day that the school shooting occurred, President Joe Biden issued a statement that the United States must do more to stop gun violence.

– The chief said an incident like this is a family’s worst nightmare.

He also urged Congress to adopt a national ban on automatic weapons for private use. This ban has been in place in the USA since 1994, but was lifted in 2004.

Also after the school shooting in Mississippi in February, Biden made the same call.