The 28-year-old who shot dead six people at an elementary school in Nashville was able to buy and conceal multiple weapons in the family home despite evidence of mental health issues, police said on Tuesday.
Two nine-year-old girls, a nine-year-old boy, two teachers and a school custodian died in the Monday attack, which instantly revived the bitter public debate over gun rights in the United States.
Earlier, Nashville police chief John Drake told reporters that the shooter, Audrey Hale, had been receiving treatment for an"emotional disorder," and that Hale's parents believed their child - who lived at home with them - had bought and later resold a single gun. She was under doctors' care for an emotional disorder...her parents felt that she should not own weapons. As it turned out, she had been hiding several weapons within the house.
Multiple gunshots are heard as officers close in on a sun-filled atrium upstairs, where the assailant was shot dead. As the country digested another mass shooting, mourners left flowers and stuffed toys at the growing memorial outside the school. Some knelt in prayer."I carry a gun with me most days, but I don't need an assault rifle," he told AFP. There were more than 24 million AR-15-style assault weapons in circulation in the United States by mid-2022, according to the NSSF firearm trade association.
The deadlock in Washington has come despite an uproar over the recurrence of school massacres, including last year when a shooter in Uvalde, Texas, killed 19 students and two teachers.
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