Nashville school shooter legally stockpiled weapons before attack

A memorial to the victims at the Covenant School in Nashville. Six people, three children and three adults, were killed in the attack. Photograph: Mark Zaleski/AP

The killer of three children and three adults at a Christian elementary school in Tennessee bought numerous firearms in the weeks leading up to the mass shooting, police have revealed.

Audrey Hale, 28, was under a doctor’s care for an unspecified emotional disorder at the time of the rampage, the Nashville police chief, John Drake, said at a Tuesday afternoon media briefing.