Nashville Shooter Was Receiving Treatment For ‘Emotional Disorder’: Police

The Nashville Christian school shooting that resulted in six deaths, including three children, was allegedly carried out by a 28-year-old woman who was receiving treatment for an undisclosed “emotional disorder.”

According to Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake, the shooter, who identified as a man, was under a doctor’s care, and law enforcement officials were unaware of her treatment until after the shooting. A source close to the woman’s family confirmed that the shooter was autistic but “high-functioning.”

The shooter legally purchased seven guns from five different stores, including two rifles and a handgun used during the Covenant School incident. Although her parents did not approve of her owning firearms, they acknowledged that she previously sold a gun but was not aware that she possessed others which she kept hidden in their home.

A manifesto along with a detailed map of the school were found when police searched the shooter’s parents’ property. Drake called the attack a “targeted attack” and confirmed that the shooter was previously a student at Covenant School, but authorities were not ready to disclose a motive for the shootings. He stated that the students who were targeted were random, and no particular individual was sought out by the shooter.

The victims of the shooting included Katherine Koonce, a school head, who was killed outside her office, and Mike Hill, a 61-year-old custodian who was shot when the gunman fired through the building’s glass doors. The other victims were nine-year-olds Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, and Cynthia Peak, 61.

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