Three children and three adultswere killed during a shooting on Monday morning at a private elementary school in Nashville after a 28-year-old former student opened fire inside the building, a Nashville police spokesman said.
Hours later, Johnson revealed that her children’s school was locked down.
“I haven’t been able to catch my breath since reading the news and getting a call from our school that they were on lockdown as well given the news,” she wrote in a message in her Instagram Story on Monday. “Shaking. Crying. Heartbroken. Horrific.”
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She added that her two children — daughterDrew Hazel East, 3, and sonJett James East18 months, whom she shares with husbandAndrew East— “are now home with us.”
“I feel lucky and blessed but still so incredibly sad,” she continued. “No parent or family should ever have to deal with this.”
She went on to speak about the horrific scene in the aftermath of the shooting.
“I’ve seen childrens ambulances, countless police cars, buses of children being transported to safety, parents flying down the street laying on their horns, people sprinting in and out of churches and schools looking for their kids. Today has changed me,” the athlete, 31, wrote.
At the time of her posts, three children and two adults had died. Since then, it’s been confirmed that three adults have died.
“Jesus, please be near,” she added.
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The former Olympic gymnast also shared footage that her husband captured on the street that showed police cars and school buses driving down the road.
She followed it up with a photo of her holding her babies with tears in her eyes, writing that it was taken “when Andrew got our babies home.”
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She added a video of her kissing her children, adding that she “can’t stop crying”
According to a tweet from the Metro Nashville Police Department, the shooter has been identified as 28-year-old Audrey Hale. Nashville Police Chief John Drake said during a Monday afternoon press conference the shooter was a former student at The Covenant School. It’s unclear when the student attended the school.
source: people.com
