Bodycam footage of Nashville school shooting
Warning: Graphic content. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department released bodycam footage of officers entering a private Christian elementary school and killing the shooter, who authorities say killed three children and three adults on Monday.
Video Transcript
[HATCH CLOSES]
- The kids are all locked down, but we have two kids that we don't know where they are.
- OK.
- OK?
- Yes, ma'am.
[GUN COCKING]
- Yeah.
- They fired into my window, so they're upstairs.
- Hey! Gimme, gimme three! Let's get three!
- All the way down the hall, this fellowship hall, at the end of this hall is fellowship hall. They just said they've heard gunshots down there. And then upstairs for a bunch of kids.
- Let's go. I need three!
- One more!
- Let's go!
[ALARM SOUNDING]
Metro Police!
- Open door! On me, on me.
- I don't know where he is.
- Metro police!
- Open door!
- OK.
- Bathroom, bathroom, small bathroom. Clear.
- Next. Let's go. Show me the
- Back
- Door to door with me with me.
- Hold the door!
- Next! Open, I got it, I got it.
- Bathroom.
- Let's go!
- Open the door right now! Let's go, let's go!
- Let's move right. Cover left, cover left!
- Cover left.
[ALARM SOUNDING]
- Take this with me. Take this. No, that's locked. Take this door. Take this door, take it.
[GUNSHOTS IN DISTANCE]
[ALARM SOUNDING]
Think it's upstairs. It sounds like it's upstairs.
- Go, go, go, go!
[GUNSHOTS]
- That's one of them!
[GUNSHOTS]
- Push an LPD, push an LPD.
- Reloading!
[GUNSHOTS]
Clear!
Clear, move!
- Watch out, watch out!
[GUNSHOTS]
Stop moving! Stop moving! Get your hands away from the gun! Get your hands away from the gun!