Christian singer Lauren Daigle holds vigil in place of concert after Nashville school shooting.
In an Instagram story, the Christian singer asked her fans who had planned to come to her concert at Marathon Music Works in Nashville on Monday evening to instead join her for a community-wide prayer vigil.Today’s shooting is truly heartbreaking for our Nashville community and all of those impacted. I’m going to postpone my performance tonight, and in its place, host a community-wide Prayer Vigil.
To those in the local Nashville area, if you need a safe place to come pray, mourn, and be with your community, please join us. The doors are open for all.Daigle’s concert is rescheduled for April 5. All tickets for the originally scheduled date will be honored.9-year-old students Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney61-year-old Cynthia Peak, a substitute teacherPolice identified the shooter as 28-year-old Audrey Hale, a former student of the school.
While an official motive has not been identified, Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake saidthat investigators believe Hale had “some resentment for having to go to that school.” Initially, police identified Hale as a woman, but Drake later said in a news conference that Hale was transgender. After the news conference, police spokesperson Don Aaron declined to elaborate on how Hale currently identified.
The Presbyterian school has about 200 students from preschool through sixth grade, as well as roughly 50 staff members.
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