Nashville Shooting

Explained: What America can do to save its children from gun violence

For some, Monday's massacre at the Covenant School in Nashville confirms the need to ban assault rifles, while others call for increased security at schools. In Arkansas and Alabama, some institutions have installed armoured ‘safe rooms’ where students can seek shelter in the event of gunfire

'When will this end?' The trauma of living with America's gun violence

Several Americans are speaking out about their experiences being impacted by more than one gun massacre, including the Nashville school shooting, in which the lives of three children and three adults were abruptly ended

Joe Biden says most of US thinks owning military style guns 'bizarre'

Biden expressed exasperation that Congress won't end legal ownership of semi-automatic rifles, like the popular AR-15, and said he was powerless to do more

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

Nashville school massacre: Why women mass shooters are rare in the US

As many as 98 per cent of mass shootings that have occurred in the US since 1966 were carried out by men, says the Violence Project, a research group. The attacker who killed six people at a school in Nashville on Monday was assigned female at birth and identified as transgender

Police release video of Nashville school shooter blasting through glass doors, roaming halls

The police chief did not specify the nature of such presumed resentment, or whether it had anything to do with the suspect's gender identity or the Christian orientation of the school. Drake said the school was singled out for attack but the individual victims were targeted at random

Biden orders US flags to be flown at half-staff to honour victims of Nashville shooting

Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake said the person who killed six people at Covenant School in Nashville on Monday has been identified as Audrey Hale

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

Eight wounded as shooting erupts following argument over dog in Nashville

Police said they recovered a handgun from the scene, are on the lookout for two male suspects and that the investigation is ongoing