Nashville shooting 911 calls capture terror inside school: ‘I’m hearing more shots, please hurry!’

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View online March 30, 2023 1/ Nashville shooting 911 calls capture terror inside school: 'I'm hearing more shots, please hurry!' Authorities in Nashville on Thursday released audio recordings of 911 calls made during the shooting that left seven people dead at a Christian school earlier this week.   In one call, which began just before 10:13am on Monday, a caller inside the school told a dispatcher that she thought she was hearing gunshots in the building. The dispatcher asked her if she was in a safe space, and told her that two other people had reported hearing gunshots in the building as well.   "I'm hearing more shots," the caller said. "Please hurry."   Children's voices could be heard in the background of the call, which was one of several that mobilised law enforcement officers and emergency responders to the scene of the shooting on Monday morning.   In another call, a man who said he was in a room on the building's second floor told a dispatcher he believed there was a shooter near by.   "I'm on the second floor in a room," he said. "I think the shooter is on the second floor."   2/ 'Our lawmakers have no interest in protecting citizens:' Hundreds demand gun reform at Tennessee State Capitol Mothers, children and fed-up voters waved placards and demanded action on Thursday outside the Tennessee State Capitol, three days after yet another school shooter killed three adults and three 9-year-olds in Nashville. Rally attendees told Sheila Flynn how they hope their fear — and angry cries — will motivate lawmakers to act 3/ Audrey Hale: What we know about the Nashville school shooter Mental health treatment, a manifesto and plans for further attacks and chilling final messages to a friend. Here's what we know about the Nashville school shooter 4/ Minnesota residents evacuated from homes as train carrying ethanol derails and catches fire Cargo train derailed at around 1am on Thursday morning in the town of Raymond, Minnesota 5/ Gwyneth Paltrow accused of 'cover-up' over ski crash Ski instructor called cover-up allegation 'ridiculous' earlier in civil trial The Big Question What does the newly uncovered group chat in the Gwyneth Paltrow ski collision trial reveal? Online posts by a man suing Gwyneth Paltrow over a ski collision seven years ago might have changed the course of the bombshell trial — but they were only discovered by an internet sleuth after both sides in the litigation failed to retrieve them.   Attorneys for Terry Sanderson, 76, have argued that the Hollywood star ploughed into him on the slopes of Flagstaff Mountain at the Deer Valley Resort on 26 February 2016. Mr Sanderson claims Ms Paltrow slammed into him in a "full body hit" leaving him with a permanent traumatic brain injury that has robbed him of "his enjoyment for life." Meanwhile, Ms Paltrow alleges it was Mr Sanderson who crashed into her. New evidence was unveiled earlier this week after online sleuth Michael Fletcher accessed a link that Mr Sanderson had emailed to his three daughters after the collision — which the defence early alleged was broken. Speaking with The Independent on Wednesday, Mr Fletcher said he only had to create an account on the website Meetup and go back to the group chat's discussion on the day the ski crash took place. Read the full story > £99 £20 for 1 year ✓ Full access to Premium news analysis ✓ Advert-free reading across web and app ✓ The Independent Daily Edition newspaper ✓ Puzzles, virtual event tickets and more SUBSCRIBE NOW Watch/ Lewis Capaldi surprises British Airways passengers by performing during flight NUMBER OF THE DAY 48 – The number of years since Las Vegas man Donald Smith disappeared in unexplained circumstances. Human remains recently discovered in Lake Mead, Nevada, have now been identified as belonging to Smith, who appears to have accidentally drowned in the reservoir at the age of 39 in April 1974. Quote of the day "We have to take extreme measures for this. We are calling for a national education strike at all levels of education, and I hope that we can achieve these kind of movements out there sooner rather than later." – Manuel Oliver, the father of a Parkland shooting victim who was violently arrested at the US Capitol, calls for a national education strike in response to the Nashville shooting. 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