Nashville school shooter carefully plotted attack that killed six | First Thing
President again calls on Congress to pass assault weapons ban, after three children and three adults killed at a Christian elementary school. Plus, meatball from long-extinct mammoth created
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A former student killed three children and three adults at a Christian elementary school in Nashville on Monday, armed with two assault-style" weapons and a handgun after elaborately planning the massacre by drawing a detailed map and conducting surveillance of the building, police said.
Who were the victims? Nashville police identified the victims as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all nine years old; Cynthia Peak, a substitute teacher, 61; Katherine Koonce, 60; and Mike Hill, a custodian, 61.
What has Joe Biden said about the shooting? Biden called the shooting heartbreaking, a family's worst nightmare". He said more needs to be done to stop gun violence. It's ripping our communities apart," he said, and called on Congress to pass an assault weapons ban, saying we need to do more to protect our schools".
Hits very close to home': Nashville shooting reporter recounts story of attack at her own school.
How is Trump doing in the polls? Trump has increased his national lead in the Republican presidential primary but seems set to face a closer tussle with his chief rival, Ron DeSantis, in the crucial first two states to vote, polls show. On Monday, a survey from the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard and the Harris Poll gave Trump a 26-point national lead over DeSantis, by 50% to 24%, a four-point gain since February.
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