NASHVILLE (BP)—They never had ridden a bus before, youth minister Beth Howe said of preschoolers transported to Woodmont Baptist Church in Nashville after an active shooter targeted their private Christian elementary school two miles away.
One little girl asked why there were bad guys. Howe bandaged the scratches on the arm of another who had been at recess when the shooting began.
“She jumped in the bushes to hide when they heard the gunshots,” said Howe, Woodmont’s minister of students and discipleship.
Woodmont Baptist Church served as the designated reunification center for children from Covenant School and their parents following a mass shooting at the private Christian school in Nashville.
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Former Columbine School Principal, Frank DeAngelis, was once in this position after the Columbine School Shooting in 1999.
“One of the things that I learned pretty early on is an entire community can go through it, but how people deal with that, they deal with it differently,” DeAngelis said. “And you’re going to have some people that just feel they need to talk, you’re going to have others say, ‘I don’t want to talk about it, the sooner I get back to doing what I was doing prior is going to help me heal.’ And you’re going to have some people in between.”
DeAngelis adds, “One of the things that’s so difficult is they don’t even know what they need at this point.”
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A Christian charity deployed a pack of “comfort dogs” to Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday, March 28, to offer some relief to the local community after a fatal mass shooting at the Covenant School.
Lutheran Church Charities shared photos of people visiting a memorial outside of the school interacting with the animals.
The charity told Storyful it had deployed the dogs in the aftermath of previous mass shootings, including the Michigan State University mass shooting in February, the Club Q mass shooting in Colorodo in November 2022, and the Uvalde school shooting in May 2022.
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