Nashville school shooting: police release body camera footage

Nashville police released body cam video Tuesday that shows a team of officers entering and conducting a sweep of an elementary school before confronting and killing an assailant who had murdered three children and three adults in the latest school shooting to roil the nation.

The six-minute video shows officers searching rooms before confronting the shooter in an upstairs lobby.

The former student who shot through the doors of a Christian elementary school in Nashville had drawn a detailed map of the school, including potential entry points, and conducted surveillance of the building before carrying out the massacre.

Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake did not say exactly what drove the shooter to open fire Monday morning at The Covenant School before being killed by police.

But he provided chilling examples of the shooter’s elaborate planning for the targeted attack.

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