Police have now released body camera footage of yesterday's attack on a Nashville elementary school. The video shows officers' encounter with the shooter who killed three children and three adults at the Covenant School. Chas, welcome. SISK: Yeah. So the body camera footage, which was released this morning - it's very harrowing. And it shows about a three-minute encounter from the time that officers entered the building until the assailant was killed.
I think one of the things that it shows clearly is that the assailant was either shot by officers or at least died during the encounter in the hallway, which took place on the second floor. And what you see in this video is officers very quickly and methodically going from classroom to classroom. It's also important what you don't see, which is children in any of the rooms as police are searching the building, which probably speaks to how well drilled the school was in what to do during a school shooting.
Also, you see the teachers interacting with the officers, and they seem to be very well-prepared. They're able to give officers, as they arrive, clear instructions on where the children are and to share some information on where the assailant might be. SISK: You know, police say they have some documents and maps that lay out the plan, but they really aren't sure what the motive is, or at least they're not willing to say what that is.
What we do know is that the suspect was a year-old named Audrey Hale. Hale is a former student of the school. And yesterday, the police searched Hale's family home, which was about three miles from the school. Police are saying today that what they found was that Hale had a total of seven weapons and that they were all legally obtained from five gun stores in Nashville.
They also say that Hale's family thought that Hale shouldn't have any guns, but they knew that Hale had one, and that three of those guns were used in the shooting, and the others might have been hidden in the home. How is the community reacting?
