Police: Nashville Shooter Bought Seven Guns Legally

The New York Times reports:

Federal and local investigators in Nashville were working on Tuesday to piece together clues about the actions and motives of the shooter who killed three students and three adults at a private school before being shot dead by the police. The assailant who opened fire at the Christian elementary school in Nashville on Monday was identified by officials as Audrey E. Hale, a 28-year-old former student who lived in the area.

The Nashville police chief, John Drake, said on Tuesday that they had determined that the shooter had legally purchased the three firearms used on Monday. Chief Drake said that the shooter had bought seven firearms in all, and had sold one of them. Chief Drake said that the assailant had been under doctor’s care for an “emotional disorder,” and that the family believed the assailant should not have owned any firearms.

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NEW: The shooter that killed six people at a Nashville school legally purchased seven firearms from five different local gun stores, police say. https://t.co/28gh5fNtPz pic.twitter.com/XTj9EDHGGr

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