Chilling photos taken over a decade apart show nearly-identical lines of kids evacuating in Nashville and Sandy Hook after deadly school shootings
- A woman open fired at a school in Nashville Monday, killing three kids and three adults.
- Images of students holding hands and evacuating were heartbreakingly similar to past shootings.
A familiar scene played out in Nashville, Tennessee, Monday morning as lines of elementary school kids held hands and evacuated their school during a mass shooting incident in which three of their classmates and three adult staff were killed.
Images from the shooting at The Covenant School bore a striking resemblance to those taken over a decade ago at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, when a mass shooter killed 26 people, including 20 children who were six or seven years old.
December marked the 10-year anniversary of the tragedy. A few months later, tragedy struck again, this time in Tennessee.
Police have identified the suspect as a 28-year-old woman, who they said was shot and killed by officers on the scene. Police said the suspect was armed with two assault rifles and one handgun at the time of the shooting.
Victims included three 9-year-olds, identified by police as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney. Cynthia Peak, 61, Katherine Koonce, 60, and Mike Hill, 61, were also killed, according to Nashville police.
The scene of students evacuating after a mass shooting has become a familiar sight in US schools. Photos taken from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida in 2018 also showed lines of teens holding onto each other as they evacuated after a gunman killed 17 people.