Nashville School Shooting

Lee signed the order amid heightened tensions after two Democrats, both Black men, were expelled from the General Assembly for protesting on the House floor against gun violence.

One of the two Black Democrats who were expelled last week from the GOP-led Tennessee House was reinstated Monday after Nashville’s governing council voted to send him straight back to the Legislature.

In an extraordinary move, a trio of Republicans have asked that the three Democrats be removed for their role in protests on the House floor.

Tennessee Republican lawmakers have taken the first steps to expel three Democratic members from the GOP-dominant House for their role in a recent gun control protest at the state Capitol.

The Metro Nashville Police Department says a motive for the shooter’s actions has not been established.

As students across Nashville walked out of class on Monday to protest gun violence at the Tennessee Capitol following a school shooting last week, police said the person who killed six people, including three 9-year-old children, had been planning the massacre for months.

Cindy Peak was among six people fatally shot at The Covenant School by a former student of the private Christian school.

Michael Hill, a custodian at the Nashville school and a father of seven, was one of three adults and three children killed when a shooter attacked Monday.

A heated debate erupted on Capitol Hill when Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a former middle school principal, yelled at his GOP colleagues Wednesday and repeatedly called them “cowards” for not supporting stricter gun measures in the wake of the Nashville school shooting.

Three children and three adults were killed in the shooting at The Covenant School.

The video was captured by a Nest home security camera.

Three children and three adults were killed Monday at The Covenant School.

Hundreds of people gathered Wednesday at a candlelight vigil in Nashville to honor and mourn the three children and three adults who were killed in a shooting at a Christian school this week.

Details from the rich, full lives of the three adults killed Monday at a Nashville elementary school have quickly emerged. But information on the three 9-year-old children who died has been slower to surface from a community buried in grief.

The Nashville Predators and Boston Bruins wore helmet stickers to show support for The Covenant School, where three 9-year-old students and three adult staffers were killed on Monday.

Around the U.S., private schools generally do not face as many requirements as public schools for developing security plans. They also sometimes lack access to government programs to bolster security.

YouTube said Tuesday that the police body camera video from the school shooting Monday in Nashville, Tennessee, would normally violate its policy against graphic violence but that the platform will leave the video online with certain safeguards.

The daughter of the former pastor of a Dallas church was among the three children and three adults killed Monday morning at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.

Park Cities Presbyterian Church held a prayer service Tuesday afternoon to honor the daughter of its former pastor and the sister of a beloved church member.

Melissa Joan Hart is sharing her experience guiding frightened students to safety after the school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee.