Three children and three adults were killed in a shooting at a private Christian grade school in Nashville on Monday, police said.
The female suspect was killed by police during a confrontation after the violence at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian school for about 200 students from preschool through sixth grade.
The killings come as communities around the nation are reeling from a spate of school violence, including the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, last year; a first grader who shot his teacher in Virginia; and a shooting last week in Denver that wounded two administrators.
While police said the suspect is dead after a confrontation with officers, it was not immediately clear whether the shooter was among the people pronounced dead at the hospital.