Editor’s note: This post contains graphic descriptions of violence.
The Metro Nashville Police Department released body-camera footage of at least two police officers who responded to Monday’s shooting at Covenant School.
The footage is from the body-worn cameras of officers Rex Engelbert and Michael Collazo, who police said fatally shot the attacker on Monday at 10:27 a.m. local time.
At the start of the six-minute video, Engelbert is seen arriving at the school and exiting his vehicle. He grabs a long rifle from the car’s trunk and heads toward one part of the building before heading toward a door. The officer approaches a woman outside the school who says the school is on lockdown but there are two children unaccounted for.
The woman, a school official, directs Engelbert to go upstairs.
Another school official is seen handing the officer a key to open an exterior door into the building. Engelbert yells to his fellow officers: “Let’s go, I need three!”
Engelbert enters the school — about one minute after pulling up to the building — with other officers following and immediately getting into a tactical formation. About three minutes into the video, gunshots are heard in the distance and an officer is heard saying “It’s upstairs, sounds like it’s upstairs.”
The officers rush up a stairwell as the gunshots grow louder.
The flashes from the shooter’s gunfire are seen in Collazo’s bodycam footage, which leads the officers down a hall to the suspect’s position.
The officers approach the sound of gunfire and Engelbert rounds a corner and fires multiple times at a person near a large window, who drops to the ground, the video shows.
Collazo then pushes forward and appears to shoot the person on the ground four times with a handgun, yelling, “Stop moving!” The officers finally approach the person, move a gun away and then radio, “Suspect down! Suspect down!
