Nashville school shooting updates: Three children killed, hospital says

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(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — Three children have died after they were shot at a private school in Nashville, Tennessee, according to a hospital official.

All three children were pronounced dead after arriving at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, according to a hospital spokesman.

The shooting unfolded Monday morning at the Covenant School, a Christian school for students in preschool through sixth grade.

Police said officers “engaged” with the suspect and the suspect is dead.

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