Attacker who went on rampage at Nashville school legally owned seven guns

The suspect, Audrey Hale, 28, was a former student at the school. Police said the shooter did not target specific victims

A screen grab from surveillance video tweeted by the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department shows Audrey Hale with an an assault-style weapon inside the Covenant School (Courtesy of Metropolitan Nashville Police Department via AP)

The person who killed three children and three adults at a Christian school in Nashville legally bought seven firearms in recent years and hid the guns from their parents before the attack, police said on Tuesday.

The violence on Monday at the Covenant School is the latest school shooting to roil shock the United States.