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Prayers, hugs, flowers, tears. All those things flowed on Tuesday outside of The Covenant School, the private Christian elementary school in Nashville, where three children and three adults were killed the day before.
At Covenant Presbyterian’s entrance, which is connected to the school, signs advertised the upcoming Easter service and a summer camp for children.
Those signs, which promoted a joyous time for the Covenant community, are now surrounded by yellow tape and police cars at the still-active crime scene as police work to gather more details on how Monday’s events unfolded.
People streamed in and out of the site throughout the day, laying flowers and other items, such as teddy bears, to commemorate the victims. ‘They Did Everything Right’
Angie Hawn, a teaching assistant in a nearby Smyrna school in Rutherford County, said she had to come to pay respect at the Nashville school.
Hawn said the news of yesterday’s shooting hit close to home as she works in a third grade classroom and has her own eight-year-old son, around the same age as the victims. She brought him with her alongside her “church daughter” from her youth group.
“Yesterday was a struggle,” Hawn said. “I’m in a third grade classroom all day, too. I just had to be here to be a part of the community because I knew how much community was there for me when I lost my husband.”
Hawn lost her husband in Iraq and recounted the importance of community and her faith when she lost him.
