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Anderson Cooper 360

Nashville shooter bought seven guns legally and was under care for an emotional disorder

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

4.13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Police say the 28-year-old who killed three students and three adults at a Nashville elementary school bought seven guns legally but was under care for an emotional disorder. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department released the body-camera footage from the two officers who they say fatally shot the attacker. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe joins AC360 to discuss how the police officers immediately ran toward the gunfire without any hesitation.

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0:00.0

Good evening. Tonight, newly released body camera video from the police officers who confronted and killed a mass shooter at the Covenant School in Nashville.

0:07.0

We're going to show it to you. But first we want to tell you what we know about those who were murdered about their lives, not just how their lives ended.

0:14.0

Three adults and three children at the school were killed yesterday.

0:17.0

My kill was the school custodian. Students called him Big Mike. He loved the kids at the school and his job and he loved his own kids so much.

0:26.0

There were seven of them and his 14 grandchildren as well. He loved to spend time with them and to cook. His family says he was just 61 years old.

0:35.0

Cynthia Peake also was 61. She was a substitute teacher at the school. Family friend tells local station WSMV. She lived most of her life in Alabama.

0:43.0

Recently moved to Nashville with her husband. She had three children of her own.

0:48.0

Catherine Coons was head of the school. She was 60. A former student with learning disability said that Ms. Coons never gave up on him telling WSMV that there are too many educators who do.

0:59.0

The world, he said, needs more people like her.

1:02.0

Howie Scruggs dad was the pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church which runs the school. Howie was in the third grade just nine years old.

1:10.0

Evelyn Dickhouse's family said she was a shining light. Our hearts are completely broken. We cannot believe this has happened. They said in a statement today.

1:19.0

Evelyn too was just nine. We don't have photos of William Kinney also nine years old.

1:24.0

The family friend said that he loved his sisters, adored his parents and grandparents with unfailingly kind and gentle and quick to laugh.

1:31.0

Sweet will, as she called him, knew no strangers, she said.

1:35.0

But a stranger did come into his school yesterday and killed Sweet will and Evelyn and Howie, Mike, Cynthia and Catherine.

1:42.0

What we're about to show you was released by the police today and it shows you how the killer was stopped.

1:47.0

Videos from two officers which we've synchronized to the clock so you can see from each viewpoint what actually happened as it happened.

1:54.0

It's hard to watch. There's no doubt about it but you won't see any bloodshed. You won't see any actual violence.

2:00.0

You will hear gunfire however. It's a little more than three minutes but it shows you what police are up against in a situation like this.

2:07.0

It shows you the reality of what's happening far too often in this country.

2:11.0

The video starts with one officer's camera and is later joined in sync with the second officers.

2:18.0

The first four men lobby what I'm making an entry on the front side.

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