Nashville School Shooting: Actress Melissa Joan Hart Helped Rescue Kindergarten Kids During Fatal Shooting
"Sabrina the Teenage Witch "herself was in Nashville when the fatal shooting at the Christian Covenant School happened. However, actress Melissa Joan Hart did not sit idly by as she helped in rescue efforts.
The "Clarissa" actress took to Instagram and said in an emotional video, "We helped a class of kindergartners across a busy highway." Her voice was breaking when she said, "that were climbing out of the woods - that were trying to, um, escape the shooter situation at their school. So we helped all these tiny little kids cross the road and get their teachers over there, and we helped a mom reunite with her children."
Hart and her husband were heading to their kids' school conferences on Monday when the deadly Nashville school shooting took place. This was when they started helping the kids escape the active shooter situation, according to the Associated Press.
Melissa Joan Hart and Family Had Experience With School Shootings Before
In a bit of irony, her kids previously attended a school near Sandy Hook Elementary, which was also the site of another deadly school shooting.
"This is our second experience with a school shooting with our kids being in close proximity. Luckily we are all OK," she said.
She added that she does not know what to say anymore and that "enough was enough." She also asked for prayers for all the families who have suffered in this tragedy.
According to NBC News, she and her husband, Mark Wilkerson, are parents of Mason, 17; Braydon, 15; and Tucker, 10. She noted in her Instagram video that they lived in Newtown, where Sandy Hook Elementary was located. The school was where a shooter killed 26 people in 2012.
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Nashville School Shooter Was Under Care and Had an Emotional Disorder
Meanwhile, more information about the Nashville school shooter has surfaced. Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake said on Tuesday that Audrey Hale was under care for an emotional disorder. However, the shooter still managed to buy seven firearms despite this and hid them at his home.
Hale's parents spoke to police and said their son bought and sold one weapon, and that was the extent of what they knew. The police chief stated that the parents felt that Hale should not own weapons given his emotional disorder, according to CNN.
Police revealed three of Hale's seven weapons were used in the attack. As he left home with a red bag, his parents reportedly asked what was inside but were dismissed. Soon after. The suspect targeted the school and church in the attack. His writings also revealed that he mentioned a mall as a possible target for his killing spree.
His attack killed six people, including three 9-year-old students: Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney, and Hallie Scruggs, the daughter of lead church pastor Chad Scruggs. He also killed three adults, Cynthia Peak, 61, Katherine Koonce, the 60-year-old head of the school, and Mike Hill, a 61-year-old custodian.
This is already the 19th school shooting in 2023 and the deadliest since the attack in Uvalde, Texas last year that left 21 dead.
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Written by: Rick Martin
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