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'They were hiding in the closet’: Daughter of pre-K teacher reveals disturbing details about Nashville school shooting

Audrey Hale fired multiple rounds inside the school and at cops before officers Rex Englebert and Michael Collazo killed him

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE: The Nashville school attack, which marks the 129th mass shooting in the US in 2023, left three children and three adults dead on March 27, 2023. The victims were identified as Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9, Hallie Scruggs, 9, William Kinney, 9, Katherine Koonce, 60, Cynthia Peak, 61, and Mike Hill, 61. However, there were many students and school staff present at the scene when former transgender student Audrey Hale, 28, entered the school through a side entrance and started firing gunshots. Avery Myrick, the daughter of a pre-K teacher at the school, said her mother and students were hiding in the closet.

"My dad just woke me up this morning and told me that my mom said there was a shooter at the school, and then I texted her, and I said just like, what was going on? She said she was hiding in the closet, and that there was shooting all over," Myrick said, reports CBS News. She told WSMV, "[The shooter] had potentially tried to get into her room."

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“Even though I was hearing from her, we didn’t really know if she was safe. But just getting that initial phone call that she was OK, it obviously brings a ton of relief but you know, you’re still hurting for the people out there that might not get that call," Myrick added, states New York Post. 

Audrey Hale was armed with '3 guns and significant ammunition'

Hale fired multiple rounds inside the school and at cops before officers Rex Englebert, a four-year department veteran, and Michael Collazo, a nine-year veteran, killed him. The police also shared images of the three guns they recovered from the scene.

A reporter named Joylyn Bukovac, who was covering the Nashville school shooting, revealed that she also survived a school shooting. As per NBC Connecticut, she said, “It’s just flooding back. Flashbacks for me." "I hid underneath the risers in my choir class and those minutes and hours of waiting to be released by police officers, it just felt like a lifetime. And I knew my phone was taken, it was turned off so that no one could find me,” added Bukovac, who did not mention details about her school but said she knew that her family was trying to reach her. 

She said, "I know exactly what some of these kids are going through today,” adding, "I don’t talk about it much, but I think about what happened on February 5, 2010 often. I just want people to know they aren’t alone. I also want to discuss solutions. As a mom, I am worried for the future."

'Three children won't come home today'

Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey said on Twitter, "I'm outraged and I am horrified. Three children won't come home today and a church community has suffered an unimaginable loss. We must pass stronger gun safety legislation and act to end the epidemic of gun violence."

House Minority Whip Katherine Clark of Massachusetts wrote, "Enough. Our children, our families, and our educators deserve security. They deserve to live free from fear. They deserve bold, urgent action to stop this never-ending cycle of tragedy."

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