| 2023 Nashville school shooting | |
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 Hale carrying a Kel-Tec SUB-2000 | |
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| Location | Green Hills, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 36°05′35″N 86°49′32″W / 36.09306°N 86.82556°W |
| Date | March 27, 2023 10:11 – 10:27 a.m. (CDT; UTC−05:00) |
| Target | Students and staff at The Covenant School |
Attack type | Mass shooting, mass murder, school shooting, pedicide |
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| Deaths | 7 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 2 (1 by gunfire)[a] |
| Perpetrator | Aiden Hale[b][4] |
On March 27, 2023, a mass shooting occurred at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian Church in America parochial elementary school in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee when 28-year-old Aiden Hale (born Audrey Elizabeth Hale), a transgender man and former student of the school,[5][6][7] killed three nine‑year‑old children and three adults before being shot and killed by two Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD) officers. It is the deadliest mass shooting in Tennessee history.
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