At least three children were killed in Monday’s shooting at a Tennessee Christian school, officials said, adding that the gunman was killed by police.
Police said the shooting occurred at The Covenant School on Burton Hills Boulevard in Nashville, where officers “engaged” the assailant.
Nashville firefighters first reported that their crews were responding to an “active attacker” at 10:39 a.m. CT.
“Three pediatric patients were taken to Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital in Vanderbilt, all with gunshot wounds,” said John Hauser, a spokesman for Vanderbilt University Medical Center. “All three were pronounced dead on arrival.”
The names and ages of the victims and the gunman have not been released.
Shortly after police announced the shooter was dead, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation also said “there is no current threat to public safety.”
Students at the school, which serves pre-school students through sixth grade, were being driven to Woodmont Baptist Church, two miles off campus, to be reunited with their parents.
According to The Covenant School, the campus employs 33 teachers with an 8 to 1 student-to-instructor ratio.