One caller told a dispatcher that she could hear gunshots as she hid in the closet of the The Covenant School’s art room.
during an attack this week in which three children and three adults were killed, as callers pleaded for help in hushed voices as sirens, crying and gunfire could be heard in the background.In one, a man tells the dispatcher he is with a group of people, including several children, who are walking away from the school toward a main road.
“It sounds like somebody is shooting guns,” the caller says. She then notes that there had been a pause in the gunshots. Three adults and three 9-year-old children were killed in the attack. Authorities say police shot and killed the assailant, a former student they identified as 28-year-old Audrey Hale.
, Democratic lawmakers and musicians including Sheryl Crow, who has called for stricter gun controls since the attack. Absent from the Wednesday vigil was Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee, who has been an advocate for along with greater school security and once intimated that prayer could protect Tennessee from school shootings and other things.
As with similar responses to gun violence, the state’s Republican leaders have avoided calling for tighter gun restrictions and instead have thrown their support behind adding more school security measures.
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