Church pastor’s daughter among six dead in Nashville school shooting

Curtis McDowell, who lives near Covenant School, walks away after placing flowers outside of the school’s entrance in Nashville (Andrew Nelles/The Tennessean via AP)

The six people who were fatally shot at a Christian elementary school in Nashville on Monday included nine-year-old Hallie Scruggs, the daughter of the pastor whose church runs the Covenant School.

The massacre by a former student also claimed the life of its head of school, Katherine Koonce, who had written on the school’s website that “we are participating in the miracle of (students’) development and seeing them transform into who they will be”.