TN - Shooting at private Christian Covenant School, Nashville, suspect dead, multiple victims, 27 Mar 2023
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Kaley Smith
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The door was locked. The shooter shot through the door very easily.
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So the perp just shot out the glass and walked through the doors. Smh
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Yep, just like Sandy Hook
Stickers/Decals on Shooter's Car?
Can anyone identify/interpret stickers or decals on car?*
Any significance? (could have been applied by former owner?)
Yellow cartoonish image sticker?
White sticker under back window wiper?
"Thrasher" sticker, ref. to Thrasher skateboarding magazine?** Or?
Other decal, "Waltrip"*** maybe auto dealer's decal? Or?
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snipped for focus @osu (or anyone)
Can anyone identify/interpret stickers or decals on car?*
Any significance? (could have been applied by former owner?)
Yellow cartoonish image sticker?
White sticker under back window wiper?
"Thrasher" sticker, ref. to Thrasher skateboarding magazine?** Or?
Other decal, "Waltrip"*** maybe auto dealer's decal? Or?
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Definition of THRASHER
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Seattle1
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Could be stuff she illustrated herself?
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Interesting. I didn't realize shots were fired at LE. I just watched the surveillance video. The murderer appears to handle the weapon well. Appears trained or practiced, IMHO.
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I notice when the car turns to the next row in the parking lot, you can see kids on a playground on swings (to the far right of the screen as the car is turning).
I wonder if they heard AH shooting the door for entry? Did AH park further away?
ETA: In the very first shot of the car, there is also someone standing on the sidewalk as AH drives by. Looks like maybe a groundskeeper as he's putting on gloves & seems to be beside a wheelbarrow. Imo.
ETA again: Notice the car video time seems to be around 9:54, then it jumps to 10:10 when the glass door is being shot. So I guess AH sat in their car or was getting psyched up to go in?
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In that video, I can see lights going off- emergency/alert lights? In the school.
Didn’t police say she was in a lobby-type area? Wondering if the adults/kids hadn’t had a place to hide or shelter?
It’s awful, especially knowing the school was locked up, as it should have been. I mean, shooting the windows/door(?) out just to get in. How can one prepare for such a situation if you can’t even keep the suspect out?
My son’s pre-k in a catholic school was raised, not ground level so you had to go up some outdoor steps to get to the front door, which was solid, not glass, and you had to press the intercom to be let in. His current school has an intercom too, but the doors are mostly glass. This is terrifying. What solution is there? I know upthread someone mentioned that bulletproof glass isn’t really practice for a few reasons
Didn’t police say she was in a lobby-type area? Wondering if the adults/kids hadn’t had a place to hide or shelter?
It’s awful, especially knowing the school was locked up, as it should have been. I mean, shooting the windows/door(?) out just to get in. How can one prepare for such a situation if you can’t even keep the suspect out?
My son’s pre-k in a catholic school was raised, not ground level so you had to go up some outdoor steps to get to the front door, which was solid, not glass, and you had to press the intercom to be let in. His current school has an intercom too, but the doors are mostly glass. This is terrifying. What solution is there? I know upthread someone mentioned that bulletproof glass isn’t really practice for a few reasons
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Even if they do manage to lock down the schools, shootings will still happen. Children will get killed as they play in the schoolyards.
There doesn't seem to be a national will to stop it.
Students in the US are prepared from a young age on how to respond to mass shootings.
The Covenant School is no exception - the private school held an active shooter training programme last year to prepare for such an event, according to local Nashville outlet News Channel 5.
This was reported earlier. But despite this training, they had an intruder shoot 2 sets of front doors and then walk around the school undeterred. Am I missing something here? Did she enter through the main front doors? Wouldn't that lead to reception and a member of staff sitting there?
The Covenant School is no exception - the private school held an active shooter training programme last year to prepare for such an event, according to local Nashville outlet News Channel 5.
This was reported earlier. But despite this training, they had an intruder shoot 2 sets of front doors and then walk around the school undeterred. Am I missing something here? Did she enter through the main front doors? Wouldn't that lead to reception and a member of staff sitting there?
TN. Auto License Plate? Clue to Religion?
If plate on that car is from TN, can anyone tell which "version" of the plate it is?
Just saw this* from Sept 2022, which may or may not be relevant.
“In God We Trust” license plates draw attention"
"Tennessee drivers can choose whether or not to include “In God We Trust” on their license plates when renewing this year, an option that is attracting controversy.
"In Nov. 2021, Gov. Bill Lee invited Tennesseans to vote on a new design. The resulting new, all-blue design for license plates replaced the old plates, which depicted the mountains of Tennessee — and based on an option they choose, drivers may be giving away clues about their religious beliefs.
"The standard plate places letters in front of numbers when assigning a configuration. But on plates with the phrase “In God We Trust”, the letters and numbers are reversed. "
[ETA: And a bureaucratic OOPSIE, re the TN plates from same article:
"This is not the first issue with the new blue plates: Earlier this year, state officials found that license plate recognition cameras could not read the new tags."]
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* "In God We Trust" license plates draw attention – Tennessee Lookout.
If plate on that car is from TN, can anyone tell which "version" of the plate it is?
Just saw this* from Sept 2022, which may or may not be relevant.
“In God We Trust” license plates draw attention"
"Tennessee drivers can choose whether or not to include “In God We Trust” on their license plates when renewing this year, an option that is attracting controversy.
"In Nov. 2021, Gov. Bill Lee invited Tennesseans to vote on a new design. The resulting new, all-blue design for license plates replaced the old plates, which depicted the mountains of Tennessee — and based on an option they choose, drivers may be giving away clues about their religious beliefs.
"The standard plate places letters in front of numbers when assigning a configuration. But on plates with the phrase “In God We Trust”, the letters and numbers are reversed. "
[ETA: And a bureaucratic OOPSIE, re the TN plates from same article:
"This is not the first issue with the new blue plates: Earlier this year, state officials found that license plate recognition cameras could not read the new tags."]
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* "In God We Trust" license plates draw attention – Tennessee Lookout.
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vls12345
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News reports say AH entered a side door.
ETA:
Nashville private school shooting suspect had maps of building and scouted possible second attack location, police say | CNN
A shooter who killed three 9-year-old students and three adults at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville Monday had maps of the school, left behind writings and scouted a second possible attack location, police said.
The school's entrance is sideways though. This is from my earlier post (211):
“The school is kind of situated sideways, if you will. So the front door is actually on the side of the building."
Nashville school shooter carefully plotted attack that killed six, say police
Officers killed attacker, 28, after massacre left three children and three adults dead
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I can’t even remember the last school that I’ve seen that just had unprotected glass doors. My kids elementary & middle schools had glass in the front doors but they were made with that metal stuff in the glass. Two sets of doors both sets locked and required ID to get through, then once you made it to the lobby the secretary sat behind bullet proof glass and she could buzz you into the hallway that led to the classrooms.
I don’t understand how there are so many school shootings and so many schools that are so easily accessed by shooters.
I don’t understand how there are so many school shootings and so many schools that are so easily accessed by shooters.
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Lives with her parents at 28 years of age, drives a Honda Fit (not an inexpensive vehicle), and purchases 3 firearms, including AR-like firearms. Did she pay room and board? Where did she hide the firearms, or did she? Didn't her parents notice anything was going on? She drove around doing surveillance and drawing maps of her targets. Planned it ahead of time, picked her old school because it was an easy target in terms of security and because she knew the layout.Stickers/Decals on Shooter's Car?
snipped for focus @osu (or anyone)
Can anyone identify/interpret stickers or decals on car?*
Any significance? (could have been applied by former owner?)
Yellow cartoonish image sticker?
White sticker under back window wiper?
"Thrasher" sticker, ref. to Thrasher skateboarding magazine?** Or?
Other decal, "Waltrip"*** maybe auto dealer's decal? Or?
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*** Used Car Inventory in Franklin, TN | Darrell Waltrip HondaDefinition of THRASHER
one that thrashes or threshes; an avid skateboarder… See the full definition
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The three adults were the head teacher, a substitute teacher, and a custodian, as reported earlier, IIRC.
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She was "hunting" for victims.
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