Therapy dogs provide comfort to survivors of Nashville school shooting
Sgt. Bo, a therapy dog who has provided constant comfort to survivors of a 2023 Nashville school shooting, was the American Humane Society's 2025 Hero Dog Award winner.
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Sgt. Bo, a therapy dog who has provided constant comfort to survivors of a 2023 Nashville school shooting, was the American Humane Society's 2025 Hero Dog Award winner.
The GOP-controlled Senate in Tennessee advanced a bill allowing some teachers to carry handguns on public school grounds. The measure follows last year's Covenant School shooting.
Conservative radio host Steven Crowder released what he said were images of the shooter's writings from the day of the rampage.
Chances are shrinking fast for a key gun-control proposal to make it out of the Tennessee Legislature.
The Republican-led Tennessee state legislature votes Thursday on whether to expel three Democrats who took part in an anti-gun-violence protest in the statehouse. The demonstration followed a deadly school shooting in Nashville. CBS News senior national correspondent Mark Strassmann joined Shanelle Kaul from Nashville to discuss the impending vote.
Police released the desperate 911 calls made from inside The Covenant School in Nashville during Monday's school shooting. The release comes as thousands of people descended on the state Capitol to rally for stronger gun laws. Mark Strassmann reports.
Authorities said the shooter had spent months planning the massacre.
"There's not a lot that we can do in the trauma rooms, unless the people get to us so that we can help save them... With these really destructive weapons, we can't do that work. Children die at the scene."
Police revealed new information about the shooter who killed six at a private school in Nashville. The shooter spent months planning the attack and fired more than 150 rounds, police said.
Police have said that the shooter was extremely prepared for the killings, but no motive has been determined.
A funeral was held Friday for 9-year-old Evelyn Dieckhaus, one of three children and three adults killed in Monday's school shooting in Nashville.
"I think we have a shooter at our church," one caller said, later adding: "I'm on the second floor in a room. I think the shooter is on the second floor."
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department officers Rex Engelbert and Michael Collazo fatally wounded the Nashville school shooter, the department said.
Children held signs reading "I'm nine" — a reference to the age of the three kids who died in Monday's attack.
Bowman, a former middle school principal from the Bronx, launched into a fiery tirade in the Capitol hallway.
During the event, Sheryl Crow, Margo Price, and Ketch Secor performed and each of them expressed their support for gun regulation.
Police in Nashville released bodycam video showing officers responding quickly to Monday's deadly shooting at the Covenant School. Janet Shamlian reports.
"Our police officers have cried and are crying with Nashville and the world," police chief John Drake said at the vigil.
More information is coming out about the victims killed in Monday's deadly school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee. CBS News anchors Lana Zak and Errol Barnett spoke with correspondent Janet Shamlian about the new information and about efforts to warn police in the moments leading up to the attack.
Mike Hill, 61, was one of six people killed in Monday's shooting at The Covenant School.
A motive for the shooting that killed six people, including three children, remains unknown.
The assailant had been receiving treatment for an "emotional disorder," Nashville's police chief said.
"We strongly believe there was going to be some other targets, including maybe family members, and one of the malls here in Nashville," said Nashville Police Chief John Drake.
Two sets of body camera footage show officers search the school before confronting the shooter.
The shooter has been identified as a 28-year-old from Nashville, authorities said.