Nashville shooting latest updates: Students flood Capitol for protest She wrote on Twitter:"My office is in contact with federal, state, & local officials, & we stand ready to assist. President Joe Biden referred to the shooting as a "sick'' act and reiterated his call for Congress to ban assault weapons. It's ripping our communities apart, ripping the soul of this nation.". The manifesto may have some answers in it or it may lead to some other people, but until you go through all of that, authorities shouldnt comment on a motive, he said. The industry leader for online information for tax, accounting and finance professionals. The suspected shooter, identified as 28-year-old Audrey Hale, was fatally shot by officers who responded to the scene at The Covenant School. The officers found the assailant on the second floor of the building housing the school and a Presbyterian church and neutralized the threat by 10:27 a.m., police said. It was too late. The chief said the suspect identified as transgender but provided no further clarity. Either way, its so sad as were trying to understand the cause and motive, realizing that whatever information is shared might be weaponized against an already marginalized group.. He said he viewed one document that was specifically a plan, while another contained journal-type rantings., Ideological expressions none of that has surfaced in these writings, Rausch said. Mourners gathered at the Belmont United Methodist Church to remember and pray for the victims of The Covenant School shooting in Nashville, Tennessee. Erik Ortiz is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital focusing on racial injustice and social inequality. There's some unity in today's strange emotions. Hannah McDonald, a reporter for News Channel 5, told viewers her mother-in-law worked at the school but was on a break when the shooting happened. A steady stream of traffic continued to roll down Burton Hills Boulevard under overcast skies. Audrey Hale was already in the parking lot. The massacre at The Covenant School in Nashville was the latest in a series of mass shootings in a country that has grown increasingly unnerved . Drake said officers found written material along with a map describing how the assault would unfold, as well as a plan to shoot up a different Nashville school that Hale scrapped because of too much security., Asked if there was a correlation between the shooters gender identity and the attack, Drake said: There is some theory to that. Exclusive news, data and analytics for financial market professionals, Reporting by Kevin Wurm in Nashville; Additional reporting by Kanishka Singh, Tyler Clifford, Rich McKay, Brad Brooks, Joseph Ax and Brendan O'Brien; Writing by Jonathan Allen and Steve Gorman; Editing by Sandra Maler and Stephen Coates, Texas man accused of killing five neighbors was deported four times, US may default June 1 without debt ceiling hike; Biden calls McCarthy to meet, Biden urges Republicans take debt default off table, warns interest rates would jump, American Airlines pilots authorize a strike mandate, Brazil police shoot dead 4 illegal gold miners on Yanomami reservation, Sudanese fleeing north face arduous crossing into Egypt, Kuwait again dissolves reinstated parliament by decree, British royals release photo of a beaming Princess Charlotte, Israeli attack puts Syria's Aleppo airport out of service, one soldier killed -state media. And while little is known publicly about the shooter's gender identity and whether it even played a role in the massacre, the disinformation surrounding transgender people has also left members of the LGBTQ community worried about their own safety amid a larger debate over LGBTQ rights.