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Jill Biden to visit Nashville after school shooting massacre
•The massacre by a former student at the Covenant School left three children and three staff dead, and once more opened the debate over gun control in the United States, where mass shootings are agonizingly common
Nashville school shooting: Why Twitter has restricted a US lawmaker's account
•Twitter has temporarily restricted Marjorie Taylor Greene's Congressional account after the Republican lawmaker posted a graphic that referred to a ‘Trans Day of Vengeance’ following the school shooting in Nashville
Nashville school shooter had 'emotional disorder', say police
•New details about Audrey Elizabeth Hale emerged hours after police released harrowing video showing officers storming the Covenant School and conducting a room-to-room search before confronting and fatally shooting the assailant
WATCH: Video shows Nashville police search school, fire at shooter
•Police earlier identified the shooter, who was killed by police, as 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale. They say Hale was a former student and shot through the doors of the private, Christian elementary school
'Family's Worst Nightmare': Horror and grief take over Nashville after school shooting
Fp Staff •An armed former student identified as Audrey Hale shot through the doors of an elementary school in Nashville and killed three children and three staff, before being shot dead by police. The massacre was the latest mass shooting in a nation that has grown more alarmed by violence in schools
America’s Darkest Side: How gun violence claims 114 lives on an average every day
Vibhutisanchala •The Nashville school shooting has put the spotlight on increasing gun violence in the United States. So far this year, there have been 9,870 gun-related fatalities in the country – that’s an average of more than 114 a day
US School Shooting: Nashville shooter had drawn maps, done surveillance
•The shooter was armed with two “assault-style” weapons — a rifle and a pistol — as well as a handgun, authorities said. At least two of them were believed to have been obtained legally in the Nashville area
US School Shooting: Attacker believed to be ex-student, say police
•The female shooter who killed three children and three adults Monday at a private school in Nashville is believed to have once been a student at the facility, city police said
US: 3 children, suspect among 7 killed in Nashville school shooting
•The shooting happened at The Covenant School, where the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said in a statement that the suspect was dead but did not specify exactly what led to the death
Jimmy Allen Ruth, man who drove the legendary Freedom Riders' bus in 1961, dies aged 83 in Tennessee
•The Freedom Rides Movement of 1961 started in Washington, DC by 13 men and women who travelled to the South by bus and train to force desegregation of interstate transportation facilities.