The Heroes of the Nashville School Shooting

The cops who raced toward danger knew the lessons of Uvalde.

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School buses with children arrive at Woodmont Baptist Church to be reunited with their families after a mass shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, March 27.Photo: Seth Herald/Getty Images

Monday’s murder of six people, including three 9-year-olds, by a deranged attacker at a Christian primary school in Nashville is another sign of mental illness unleashed. Many on the left and right barely paused in horror before renewing the nation’s culture wars on gun control and now transgender politics, not that any insight has been the result.

The heroes in Nashville were the police, who were on the scene quickly. With great discipline and courage, they entered the building, ran toward the shots, and killed the attacker once she was cornered. Two have been identified as Officer Rex Engelbert and Officer Michael Collazo. A timeline posted by the Tennesseean says the attacker entered the elementary school at 10:11 a.m., shooting out the glass doors. A call to police came at 10:13.

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