The Nashville police officers who ended the mass shooting at a private Christian school last week cited their police training on how they responded to the scene.
School buses with children arrive at Woodmont Baptist Church to be reunited with their families after a mass shooting at The Covenant School, Mar. 27, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn.at a private Christian school in Tennessee that left six people dead cited their police training on how they responded to the scene.
Commander Dayton Wheeler, who also responded to the shooting, described the day as something he would never forget, saying that his "stomach dropped" when he realized the emergency calls that he received about a shooting were at a school. He described how his training kicked in, recounting how he had to block out the sadness of stepping over a victim to neutralize the threat.
"We just heard the sounds and from my training experiences, I knew those sounds to be rifles," Mathes said. Detective Collazo, who works for Mathes, said he was completing administrative tasks when the call of the active shooter came in.
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