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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Royce Kurmelovs

‘Hits very close to home’: Nashville shooting reporter recounts story of attack at her own school

A man brings flowers to a makeshift memorial outside the Covenant School at the Covenant Presbyterian Church, in Nashville, Tennessee.
A man brings flowers to a makeshift memorial outside the Covenant School at the Covenant Presbyterian Church, in Nashville, Tennessee, in the wake of Monday’s shooting. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

A television reporter covering the school shooting in Nashville elementary school has described how she is herself a school shooting survivor and offered advice for the parents of children who “witness the unthinkable”.

Joylyn Bukovac, a reporter for WSM4 in Nashville, Tennessee, disclosed the detail during her live cross from outside Covenant School, where three adults and three children were killed on Monday.

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