{"id":1993,"date":"2023-03-31T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2023-04-01T10:02:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T15:02:37","slug":"heartbreaking-image-of-pastors-daughter-9-shot-dead-at-nashville-school-with-five-others-revealed-as-cops-id-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/31\/heartbreaking-image-of-pastors-daughter-9-shot-dead-at-nashville-school-with-five-others-revealed-as-cops-id-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartbreaking image of pastor\u2019s daughter, 9, shot dead at Nashville school with five others revealed as cops ID victims"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We pray for all the victims and their families. \u00a0We pray also for our legislators and our faith & community leaders to come together and address this very visible issue that plagues our country. \u00a0We realize it is but one of many issues that need partnership and God’s wisdom to address.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Nashville police have identified the six victims of the Covenant School shooting<\/a>, which includes the private Christian academy\u2019s headmistress, a custodian and the young daughter of the school\u2019s pastor.<\/p>\n

Officials identified the three slain students as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs,<\/a> and William Kinney, all age 9.<\/p>\n

Little Hallie was the daughter of Chad Scruggs, the senior pastor at Covenant, the church confirmed to CBS News.<\/a><\/p>\n

The three faculty members killed were Cynthia Peak and Mike Hill, both 61, and school head Katherine Koonce, 60.<\/p>\n

Hill worked as a custodian, police said.<\/p>\n

Police said 28-year-old Audrey Hale<\/a>, a former student and transgender woman, entered the school Monday morning, opening fire at the victims before police shot her dead.<\/p>\n

Officers said she was equipped with at least two assault rifles and a handgun, and had entered the school through a side door by shooting at it.<\/p>\n

The community is in mourning over the tragedy that befell the small private school, which teaches students in pre-K through 6th grade and only has about 200 students enrolled, according to its website.<\/p>\n

Koonce, an educator of more than 23 years, joined the school as the headmistress in 2016. Hill was identified as a custodian, and Peak was a substitute teacher.<\/p>\n

The school focuses its curriculum on biblical theology, where students take classes about the bible along with standard education courses, with the school motto being \u201cShepherding Hearts, Empowering Minds, Celebrating Childhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police said they received a call at 10:13 a.m. about an active shooter at the Covenant School, with police rushing to the scene to clear the halls.<\/p>\n

At the school, police heard gunshots on the second floor and rushed to a lobby-type area where they confronted the shooter.<\/p>\n

Follow The Post\u2019s coverage of<\/strong> the school shooting in Nashville<\/strong><\/p>\n

A car was located near the Covenant School, where the 14-minute shooting spree took place Monday morning, and provided investigators clues as to the shooter\u2019s identity, Metro Nashville Chief of Police John Drake said at a press conference.<\/p>\n

Inside her family home, police said they found maps and a manifesto of Hale\u2019s plans, saying the attack was \u201ctargeted\u201d as officials continue to unravel a motive. Police said they are in contact with the suspect\u2019s father and will release video about the shooting in the coming days.<\/p>\n

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We pray for all the victims and their families. \u00a0We pray also for our legislators and our faith & community leaders to come together and address this very visible issue that plagues our country. \u00a0We realize it is but one of many issues that need partnership and God’s wisdom to address. Nashville police have identified […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kHU7-w9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/nashville-victims-comp-2.jpg?fit=1024%2C682","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1996,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions\/1996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}