Three children and three adults were killed in a shooting at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee. The alleged shooter was also dead, local police said at a press conference. The police killed her, said Don Aaron of the police. There was initially no further information about her identity. According to the first findings, she was in her teens.

The police were called to the school around 10 a.m. in the morning (local time). "When officers got to the second floor, they saw a gunman, a woman, shooting," Aaron said. The officers shot them. According to initial findings, she gained access to the school via a side entrance. Whether she had a connection to the facility is open. According to the police, the three adults killed are school employees.

The school is said to be a private Christian institution. According to the website, children are taught there from the first to the sixth grade. There is also a kindergarten there. A mother told US television that her daughter wrote to her saying that she and her classmates hid in the closet during the incident. Nashville is the capital of the state of Tennessee - there live almost 700,000 people.

Rampages and shootings are part of everyday life in the USA. There are more guns in circulation in the United States than anywhere else in the world. In May, an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, before being shot dead by police.

US President Joe Biden has repeatedly called for stricter gun laws and has repeatedly tightened regulations slightly in the past. Without substantial changes in the law, however, experts see no chance of real change. In order to implement this, however, Biden and his Democrats would have to rely on the willingness of the Republicans in Congress to cooperate - and that is not in sight on this topic.