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Unity funeral chapel shooting1/20/2024 He prayed for peace, asking God for the safety of each child whose parents anxiously sat in his pews-or cried on the floor. ![]() If they came, they came from the Spirit,” Parker said. ![]() Today was one of those days that words didn’t come easy. “As pastors, we are supposed to have the words. Parents waited in the sanctuary through the slow reunification process, not yet knowing the extent of the attack. The children gathered in the fellowship hall, where the student minister handed out coloring sheets and began processing the shooting with them. When they saw on Twitter that their church was named as the reunification site, they didn’t question it-they just put on their nametags, met police in the parking lot, and prepared to open their doors to buses of surviving children and parents desperate to see their kids safe and sound, senior pastor Nathan Parker told CT. “They probably had some Froot Loops, and now their whole lives changed today.”Īt Woodmont Baptist, not long after they heard the sirens whir by, pastors and staff read reports of a shooting at Covenant. “The children … started their morning in their cute little uniforms,” Rachel Dibble, who was at the Baptist church with the waiting families, told the Associated Press. Children’s Hospital, about four miles away, but were pronounced dead on arrival. They shot and killed the suspect, whom they later identified as a transgender person.įive of the victims were transported to Monroe Carell Jr. They arrived less than 15 minutes later and followed the sounds of gunfire to the second floor of the private Christian elementary school. Metro Nashville Police Department spokesman Don Aaron said that a 28-year-old former student shot out some glass doors and entered through the side of the building carrying two assault rifles and a handgun. In a statement Monday night, The Covenant School said its community is “in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our school and church” and asked for privacy as the investigation into the attack continues. The adult victims were head of school Katherine Koonce, 60 substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, 61 and custodian Mike Hill, 61. ![]() Police identified them as Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney, and Hallie Scruggs, the daughter of Covenant Presbyterian Church senior pastor Chad Scruggs. The three students killed were each 9 years old. “I can’t tell you how sympathetic we are.” “I know this is probably the worst day of everyone’s lives,” a police officer told the crowd. In the interval, the private Christian school became the site of the 130th mass shooting of 2023, which left three children and three staff members dead. They sang and prayed with the roughly 200 elementary students and 40 or 50 staff at the Presbyterian Church in America school and listened as pastor Matthew Sullivan “raises it to another level,” as one student put it, with his kid-friendly Bible lesson.Ī few hours later, though, parents crowded into the sanctuary of Woodmont Baptist Church, two miles down the road, waiting to hear the worst. my dad passed 2018 June 23rd and we didn’t have the funeral until July 12th but that didn’t stop anything.so from the Shuler family thank you mr.brown.Parents were invited into the chapel at The Covenant School in Nashville on Monday morning, as they are every school-day morning. ![]() I mean his uniform was pressed and ready.he also did a 180 miracle on my dads face my dad had a bout with cancer but when he was done with him you couldn’t tell he was sick at all he just appeared to be resting peacefully… His face I can’t express enough how he made him look so handsome and perfect… I’m truly glad I decided to come to unity because I was really worried that he wouldn’t look like his self.but mr.barrow allowed me to meet with him and do a once over before he dressed him he respected my family’s wishes and did everything we wanted. Getting back to how he made my dad look like the perfect gentl eman in his Air Force uniform. He even was willing to let me be apart of preparing my dad, Although I couldn’t make it it was a very kind gesture after hearing that I did take interest in the funeral business. he was absolutely warm and kind he took his time with my dad, considering the condition he was in when he received him. Ok where do I begin for me 5 stars isn’t enough mr.barrow I believe the kind fellows name was.
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