Nashville held a citywide candlelight vigil honoring victims of the Covenant School shooting, with first lady Jill Biden in attendance
The outdoor ceremony, attended by several hundred people, began about an hour before sunset in Nashville Public Square Park, outside city hall in the state capital, Tennessee's largest city, and several miles from the scene of Monday's massacre.
The crowd sang along to Secor's rendition of the popular Christian hymn "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" as he accompanied himself on banjo. "Think of all the hugs they would have had, and all the hugs we can still give each other," said Mayor John Cooper, accompanied by numerous local leaders and clergy. "Nashville has had its worst day. Our hearts are broken."
The perpetrator of Monday's carnage, former Covenant School student Audrey Elizabeth Hale, 28, was fatally shot by officers storming the building minutes after gunfire was first reported, likely preventing a higher death toll.
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