He Nashville Mayor John Cooper asked the community this Tuesday to join the fundraiser they are organizing to help the families of the victims of the shooting from Covenant Elementary School with funeral expenses and other special needs.
“We are asking everyone to join the campaign to raise funds for families, to address the special needs of those affected by Covenant. There are many costs, funerals and so on. There are many expenses that fall on these families and we are going to support them,” Cooper said in an interview for Telemundo Noticias.
He noted that the funds will be raised through the Nashville Community Foundation.
Cooper explained that although they have had other violent events in the city, the Covenant School shooting is the first of its kind to affect that area.
“Unfortunately we join the list of cities that have registered mass shootings this year in the United States. Having enrolled in a school, it becomes extremely painful,” added the mayor.
Audrey Elizabeth Hale, 28, arrived Monday around 10:00 a.m. at the Covenant College in Nashville (Tennessee), in the United Statescarrying at least two assault rifles and a pistol, in addition, she had several rounds of ammunition and was prepared for a confrontation with the police.
He entered the school through a side entrance, which he shot open, and made his way from the first floor to the second floor, while he fired multiple random shots at whoever was in his path.
In the path, murdered 6 people: three children, 9 years old, identified as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney; and three adults, Katherine Koonce, 60, and the school’s principal, Cynthia Peak and Mike Hill, both 61.
Hale, who was killed during an exchange of fire with police on the second floor of the school, had been a student at Covenant School.
Authorities reported that Hale identified as transgender, and was apparently under medical treatment for an “emotional disorder.”
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