US cops release body-camera footage of officers who shot down transgender shooter at school
Video gets more than 6 million views on Twitter in less than 24 hours
Nashville: The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department on Tuesday released a video of body-worn camera footage of the officers who shot down the 28-year-old transgender shooter Audrey Elizabeth Hale aka Hale Aiden at a Convenant School.
The video is a compilation of two points of view showing the perspectives of Officer Rex Engelbert, a four-year MNPD veteran, and Officer Michael Collazo, a nine-year MNPD veteran, the officers credited with fatally shooting the transgender shooter.
"The kids are all locked down but we have two kids that we don't know where they are," a woman tells Engelbert arriving on the scene. She adds, "Upstairs are a bunch of kids," where the active shooter is at the time. An alarm is blaring as the team of first responders clears each classroom. "Let's go!" the cops shout before heading up the school stairwell, running toward the gunfire.
In the second-floor common area, a team of responding officers encounters Hale firing through a window at arriving police cars. "Reloading!" an officer yells when Engelbert pulls the trigger several times. Hale can be seen dropping to the ground, neutralized.
"Move! Move!" Collazo commands the other officers. He then shoots Hale, whose hands were still gripping the firearms. "Get your hand away from the gun!" an officer orders Hale. "Suspect down! Suspect down!" Collaza repeatedly shouts, disarming the shooter.
Three children were killed in the private Christian school shooting along with three faculty members of the school. The deceased were identified as Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney, and Hallie Scruggs, all age 9; Mike Hill, age 61, Cynthia Peak, age 61, and head of school Katherine Koonce, age 60.
The video shared by investigative reporter Mia Cathell on Twitter has been watched over 6 million times at the time of posting of this report.
🚨 BREAKING: Police have released body-camera footage of the Nashville officers fatally shooting transgender shooter Audrey "Aiden" Hale inside the Covenant School yesterday. pic.twitter.com/Pgmw1fJnbY
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Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy questioned by Karnataka Lokayukta police in land denotification case
Bengaluru, Sep 27: JD(S) leader and Union Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Friday appeared before the Lokayukta police for questioning in connection with a land denotification case.
"He was questioned in the Gangenahalli denotification case," a Lokayukta official said.
The ruling Congress in Karnataka last week asked the Lokayukta to expedite its probe against former Chief Ministers B S Yediyurappa and Kumaraswamy, also a former CM in connection with the alleged denotification of land here.
Ministers Krishna Byre Gowda, Dinesh Gundu Rao and Santhosh Lad held a joint press conference on September 19 and released documents regarding the denotification of 1.11 acres of land at Gangenahalli in Kasaba hobli of Bengaluru North.
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Kumaraswamy said he has nothing to do with the case and he has never done anything that is illegal while in power and during his tenure as CM.
"In connection with the Gangenahalli case, four Ministers had held a press conference against me. I had said that day too, I have nothing to do with it (case). Still they have spoken lightly for the sake of publicity," he told reporters after appearing before the Lokayukta.
"... there were reports in the media that Kumaraswamy faces danger from Lokayukta. I have done nothing that is illegal and that will cause me danger, while I was in power. This government cannot do anything to me."
Noting that as an opposition MLA he had raised several issues that had caused embarrassment to the then Congress government led by Siddaramaiah in 2015, Kumaraswamy said, this case was put against him then.
"Today it is 2024, already several times the statements have been taken for inquiry, once again today I was called, recently I heard from the media that Yediyurappa was also called. I have appeared and answered all their questions, let them conduct further inquiry, and this government is free to take any action in accordance with law," he said.
Kumaraswamy said he has not come before Lokayukta after having committed wrong or illegal.
"I have come voluntarily today and have answered all questions by officers...there is no need for me to come once again, I have responded to whatever they have asked for."
Alleging that a 'benami' named Rajashekharaiah, "who has nothing to do with the said land (that was notified)", gave a petition when Kumaraswamy was the Chief Minister in 2007, seeking denotification of the land, which was acquired 30 years ago, Krishna Byre Gowda had last week alleged that Kumaraswamy had then asked officials to move the file in this regard.
He had said that the original owner of the said land had 21 heirs, who gave a general power of attorney to Kumaraswamy's mother-in-law.
Further pointing out that when Yediyurappa was the CM in 2010, and despite the then principal secretary to the urban development department K Jothiramalingam noting on the file that it was not a fit case for denotification, the former ordered denotification, Gowda had claimed.
"Subsequently after the denotification of the land in June, 2010, it was registered in the name of Kumaraswamy's brother-in-law Channappa in July that year," he had said.
The land costing several crores of rupees belonged to Bangalore Development Authority and should have been used for the poor, the Minister had said, asking: "is it not a systematic fraud."
