By Our Correspondent
According to police, the shooter who murdered six people at a school in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday legally purchased 7 firearms and kept them hidden at home.
According to investigators, the suspect’s parents believed the 28-year-old shouldn’t possess weapons and were unaware that the guns were hidden in their home.
The attack at the Covenant School resulted in the deaths of six people, including three nine-year-old children. According to the police, the suspect was treated by a “doctor for an emotional disorder.”.
Purchased 7 firearms
Officers also said that the target was not a specific person but the school. Tennessee has no laws allowing police to take weapons from dangerous suspects.
Police claimed that even in the absence of such “red-flag” laws, they would have still sought to have the weapons seized if they had received any indication that the suspect might have been a threat.
Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney were the three students killed in the attack. Michael Hill, 61, Cynthia Peak, 61, and Katherine Koonce, 60, were three other adults who worked at the for-profit Christian school.
The wife of the Tennessee governor was good friends with both Ms. Koonce, the school’s principal, and Ms. Peak, a substitute teacher.
Governor Bill Lee claimed that his wife Maria had arranged to meet Ms. Peak the evening following her death.
Police have spoken with the parents of Audrey Hale, the suspect who was killed by officers less than 15 minutes after the attack started.
Hale, a former student at the school who identified as transgender, had three firearms, including a semi-automatic rifle. The assailant watched the area closely, made maps, and wrote what the police called a “manifesto” before carrying out the attack.
