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Rev. Franklin Graham issued a powerful statement about faith on Tuesday, a day after a woman entered a private Christian school in Tennessee and killed three small children and three adults.
Police said 28-year-old Audrey Hale, who identified as a man, approached The Covenant School in Nashville on Monday morning and shot her way into the building.
Throughout the next few minutes, Hale would go on to kill three 9-year-old students, the school’s principal, and a school custodian.
In a post on his Facebook page, Graham made note of the evil that motivates such killers.
“We’re surrounded by evil in this world — and that’s what we saw walk into that Nashville elementary school yesterday — evil,” Graham wrote.
He added, “The evil certainly wasn’t in the weapon, but it was in the heart and mind of the one who came to kill and destroy.”
The reverend also paid tribute to the men and women of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department.
Officers who were dispatched to the scene worked quickly to find Hale and they wasted no time in neutralizing her as a threat. Fourteen minutes after a 911 call was placed, she was dead.
Body camera video from the encounter shared by the MNPD showed one officer made it from the driver’s seat of his car to firing on Hale in less than six minutes.
