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By: The opinion Posted Mar 28, 2023, 1:22 pm EDT
Police in Nashville, Tennessee, released a video from an agent’s uniform camerawhich recorded how he operated on a school shooting alert until he subdued the shooter, who died on the spot.
The images begin with the moment in which the officers drive to school Covenantthen they enter the first floor, shots are heard in the distance and go up to the second level, where more shots are heard.
“Gunshots, gunshots, move!” Police officer Michael Collazo is heardfrom whom the recording was taken.
More shots are heard.
“To the right, to the right!” can be heard. More shots.
The school alarm hasn’t stopped going off, it’s been going off since the officers arrived.
The police officers arrive at a rest area, in front of a window; several more shots are heard.
“Move, move!” Shouts Officer Collazo, who then fires at least four shots at a bundle whose image was disseminated.
“Stop moving, stop moving!” Collazo yells, but Audrey Hale’s body seems limp.
In the attack at the Covenant school, part of a Baptist religious complex, three children and three adults were killed.
The shooter was carrying two AK-47 type weapons. and a gun, according to police reports.
President Joe Biden again asked Congress to ban assault weapons, but so far there is no plan to do so.
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