As details continue to emerge about last week’s shooting at Nashville’s Covenant Christian School, so has a celebrity’s account of the events surrounding that horrific morning of Monday, March 27th. Actress Melissa Joan Hart, who lit up TVs during the 90s on Clarissa Explains It All and Sabrina the Teenage Witch, revealed last week on Instagram that she and her husband Mark Wilkerson were driving by the school when they saw children fleeing. Realizing something was wrong, they jumped into action.
Melissa Joan Hart Details Helping Kindergarteners Fleeing The Covenant School
Hart tearfully explained that she and Wilkerson happened to be on the way to parent-teacher conferences at their three sons’ nearby school when they saw the frantic children running, so they got out of the car and began to help.
“We helped a class of kindergartners across a busy highway. They were climbing out of the woods. They were trying to escape the shooter situation at their school,” Hart said tearfully on her Instagram video. “So we helped all these tiny little kids cross the road and get (to) their teachers.” She went on to say that they also helped a mom reunite with her children.
Hart then added, “I don’t just don’t know what to say anymore. Enough is enough. And just pray. Pray for the families.”
The video starts out by explaining that Hart’s family, which includes teenage sons Mason and Braydon and ten-year-old Tucker, relocated to Tennessee from Connecticut, and that they were living nearby almost ten years ago when the Sandy Hook school shooting took place, killing fourteen children and six adults.
“So this is our second experience with a school shooting with our kids being in close proximity,” she explained. “Luckily, we are all OK.”
Gratefully, Hart, Wilkerson, and the kindergarteners they helped on that terrifying Monday morning are all fine. But the shooter did take the lives of six people at Covenant Christian school: nine-year-olds Hallie Scruggs, Evelyn Dieckhaus, and William Kenney, and adult staff members Katherine Koonce, head of school, Michael Hill, school custodian and father of seven and Cynthia Peak, a substitute teacher. Peak is reported to be a close friend of Tennessee’s First Lady Maria Lee.
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Nashville School Shooter Was a Former Student
Police in Nashville say the shooter, 28-year-old Audrey Hale, was a former student at the school. Hale was being treated for an emotional disorder and police say they have evidence that she specifically targeted the school and had been planning the attack for months. Hale was killed in a confrontation with Nashville police within fifteen minutes of the start of the incident, but police said she fired 152 rounds before they got to her.
Covenant Christian school is a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian, a large church affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America.
