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Actress Melissa Joan Hart says she was close to Nashville’s Covenant College quickly after Monday’s deadly shooting of six people, together with three kids, and helped some college students get away from the scene.
“My children go to high school proper subsequent to a faculty the place there was a capturing right now,” Hart mentioned in an Instagram video posted Tuesday. Hart mentioned she waited a day to launch the video as a result of it was “too uncooked to publish” on the day of the capturing.
“We helped a category of kindergartners throughout a busy freeway that had been climbing out of the woods, that had been making an attempt to flee the shooter scenario at their college,” mentioned Hart.
“We helped all these tiny little … children cross the highway and get their lecturers over there, and we helped a mother reunite along with her kids.”
Hart is finest identified for her work as a baby actor, starring within the sitcoms “Clarissa Explains It All” and “Sabrina the Teenage Witch.” She mentioned her personal kids’s college didn’t maintain courses Monday due to beforehand scheduled parent-teacher conferences.
Hart mentioned this was not the primary time her household has been in shut proximity to a faculty capturing. “We moved right here from Connecticut, the place we had been in a faculty a little bit methods down from Sandy Hook,” she mentioned, referring to the 2012 elementary college bloodbath that left 20 kids and 6 adults useless.
“I simply don’t know what to say anymore. It’s simply, sufficient is sufficient.”
The Nashville assault unfolded Monday morning on the personal Christian elementary college, when a closely armed shooter fired by way of glass doorways to achieve entry and killed three 9-year-old college students and three adults earlier than being fatally shot by police.
It was the deadliest US school shooting in almost a yr and the nineteenth capturing at a faculty or college to this point in 2023 that left at the least one particular person wounded, a CNN depend reveals.
