Ex-pupil ‘conducted surveillance’ before killing six at Nashville school

Investigators believe the killer had “some resentment for having to go to that school”

Children from The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville, Tenn., hold hands as they are taken to a reunification site at the Woodmont Baptist Church after a shooting at their school, on Monday, March, 27, 2023. (George Uribe via AP)

A former student who killed three children and three adults at a primary school in Nashville had drawn a detailed map of the building and conducted surveillance before carrying out the massacre, US police said.

Nashville police chief John Drake did not say what drove the killer – who they named as Audrey Hale, 28 – to open fire on Monday morning at The Covenant School before being shot dead by police.