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'The time is now,' protesters say at Tennessee Capitol rally [thetennesean.com]

 

By Nick Gray, Diana Leyva, Craig Shoup, Kirsten Fiscus, Rachel Wegner, and Melissa Brown, The Nashville Tennesean, March 30, 2023

Recap: Three children and three adult staff members were killed Monday at Covenant School in one of Tennessee's deadliest school shootings. Audrey Hale, 28, entered the school at about 10:11 a.m. armed with a rifle. Officers who responded to the scene killed Hale about 10 minutes later. Video footage shows a timeline from when Hale first got to the school until police fired the fatal shots.

A citywide vigil was held in Nashville on Wednesdayand included remarks from Mayor John Cooper, other state and local officials and clergy, and songs performed by Sheryl Crow, Margo Price and Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show. First Lady Jill Biden also attended.

We are learning more about the victims killed on Monday. Mike Hill, 61, was Covenant School's janitor for the last 13 years. Cynthia Peak, 61, was a close friend of Tennessee First Lady Maria Lee and was filling in as a substitute teacher at Covenant on Monday. Katherine Koonce, 60, was the head of school at Covenant who her family said "gave her life to protect the students she loved." Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all 9, were students at the school.

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