Nashville bodycam footage released showing Covenant school shooting suspect, Audrey Hale shot dead by responding cops, Officers Rex Englebert and Michael Collazo.
Nashville Police have released bodycam footage from yesterday’s school shooting which left six people dead, including three nine-year-old children.
The footage shows the two cops, Officers Rex Englebert and Michael Collazo who took down, 28 year old transgender shooter, Audrey Hale.
Bodycam footage shows the officers going classroom to classroom looking for Hale, who gained entry by shooting through the glass panes of the front door.
Hale is found standing in front of a large window on a second floor atrium of The Covenant School as the two officers confront the suspect, some 14 minutes after the first bullets rang out at 10.13 am, Monday morning.
Police said the suspect was ‘immediately taken down’ by one of the two officers.
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‘Stop moving! Stop moving!’
Just moments after officers fired at the shooter, Hall could be seen strewn on the floor with cops screaming, ‘Don’t move’ and ‘Get your hands away from the gun.’
Screams another officer, ‘Stop moving! Stop moving!’
Too late. Hale was already dead.
Hale, who was armed with two assault rifles and a handgun, had earlier been captured on surveillance video casually stalking the hallways of the private Christian academy for victims.
By the time police arrived, Hale had shot three students and three teachers.
The transgender shooter – who was born female but often went by ‘Aiden’ and used ‘he/him’ pronouns – harbored a ‘resentment’ about having to attend the private Christian school as a child herself.
Religious schools generally shun same sex/gay persona along with maintaining traditional gender identity binaries.
Reports told of Hale after entering the school, shooting and killing head teacher Katherine Koonce in an ‘assassination’ style killing in the hallway, in addition to shooting church custodian Mike Hill and substitute teacher Cynthia Peak.
Hale also murdered three nine-year-old students; Hallie Scraggs, William Kinney and Evelyn Dieckhaus.
It’s unclear whether she targeted those children or their class.
