Police investigate bomb threat at Nashville school that was site of deadly mass shooting
The Covenant School was the site of 2023 mass shooting which claimed six lives.
The Covenant School, which was the site of a 2023 mass shooting, received a bomb threat on Monday, according to a Nashville Police Department spokesperson.
"Yesterday an employee of Covenant School received an emailed bomb threat. We cleared the site, with assistance from a THP (Tennessee Highway Patrol) bomb dog. Our Specialized Investigations Division detectives are working with the FBI to investigate the origin of the threat," according to a Metropolitan Nashville Police Department spokesperson.
The school referred ABC News to law enforcement when requested for comment regarding the bomb threat.
In March of 2023, Covenant School in Nashville, a private pre-k to sixth grade Christian school, was the site of a mass shooting that killed three students and three employees including the head of school.
The shooter was identified by police as 28-year-old Audrey Hale, who law enforcement said once attended the school.
A police spokesperson told ABC News in March 2023, that Hale was assigned female at birth and pointed to a social media account linked to Hale that included use of the pronouns he/him.
It was the deadliest school shooting in Tennessee history.
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