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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The shooter who killed three students and three staff members at a Christian school in Nashville legally bought seven weapons in recent years and hid the guns from their parents before carrying out the attack by firing indiscriminately at victims and spraying gunfire through doors and windows, police said Tuesday.The violence Monday at The Covenant School was the latest school shooting to roil the nation and was planned carefully.

The shooter who killed three students and three staff members at a Christian school in Nashville legally bought seven weapons in recent years and hid the guns from their parents before carrying out the attack by firing indiscriminately at victims and spraying gunfire through doors and windows, police said Tuesday.

A female shooter killed three children and three adults at a Nashville elementary school on Monday before being killed by police, according to officials.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee police officers repeatedly pleaded with a man who stopped traffic along Interstate 65 to drop a box cutter and surrender, saying no one wanted to hurt him.Instead, he abruptly pulled another shiny object from his pocket and pointed it at police as if ready to shoot, prompting nine of the officers who surrounded him at gunpoint to open fire, killing him on the highway, according to officials and body camera video.Nashville Police released the images and identified the officers involved within hours of the shooting of Landon Eastep, 37, of Nashville, on Thursday afternoon."Nine law enforcement personnel fired their weapons after Eastep took a stance as if he had a firearm," Nashville police spokesman Don Aaron said in the video.Calling the shooting a "firing squad execution," attorney Joy Kimbrough said on Twitter that Eastep's family would speak at a news conference Friday evening.Nashville District Attorney Glenn Funk promised to take "any appropriate action" once the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, or TBI, had finished its investigation.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - At least three people were injured after a 22-year-old gunman opened fire on Tuesday at a Smile Direct Club warehouse in Tennessee, police said.The shooting was reported at about 6 a.m. at the manufacturing facility located on Antioch Pike in Antioch, Tennessee.

Pictured: Officer Brian Sherman NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A Nashville, Tenn., police officer was shot Tuesday evening in an ambush-style attack while responding to a home where a gunman had lured officers before opening fire and eventually killing himself, police said. Officer Brian Sherman was shot in the upper left arm as he and other officers responded to a "setup call" amid reports of a woman shot inside a home in the 7000 block of Sugarloaf Drive just after 6:10 p.m. A man called 911 saying his brother shot his mother and was firing inside, police spokesman Don Aaron said.

 Nashville on Christmas morning in what police described as an “intentional act,” and fire officials reported taking three people to hospital but none of them critically injured.“The explosion was significant, as you can see … The police department, its federal partners — the FBI and ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) — are conducting a large-scale investigation to this point,” said Don Aaron, Nashville police spokesman.“We do believe that the explosion was an intentional act.” Trump plays golf on Christmas Eve as coronavirus relief bill up in the air A motive for the explosion was not disclosed by police.The explosion was felt nine blocks away and destroyed several other vehicles and damaged several buildings,

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - UPDATE:The Metro Nashville Police Department says authorities believe an explosion that rocked the downtown area early on Christmas Day was a deliberate act. Police spokesman Don Aaron said about three hours after the explosion shook the area that investigators believe it was "an intentional act." Police earlier said they believe a vehicle was involved in the explosion.Read earlier post below:An explosion shook downtown Nashville early Friday, with black smoke filling the morning sky, according to local reports.Nashville's Fox 17 said the blast was reported at approximately 5:40 a.m.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Nashville police said a preliminary investigation into the death of singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle shows his death was a probable drug overdose. Police spokesman Don Aaron said officers did a welfare check at Earle's home on Sunday where he was found dead.