Nashville TV Reporter Recounts How Mother-In-Law, Who Worked Front Desk At Covenant Elementary School, Survived Mass Shooting
deadline.comAs news of the elementary school shooting at the Covenant School in suburban Nashville unfolded, local TV reporter Hannah McDonald was not only trying to report impartially on a local tragedy that took the lives of three students and three adults, she was trying to keep track of more personal developments.
She later shared the story on air. “My mother-in-law is the front desk…angel,” a smiling, but visibly-shaken McDonald told NewsChannel 5 Nashville viewers. “She was at the school this morning.
Diana [presumably her mother-in-law] was, however, able to come out of this safe.” She related that her mother-in-law, who is generally the first point of contact for everyone arriving at the school from 7 a.m.
on, had stepped away to take a break. “And that is why, right now, I am just…” she said pausing seemingly with mixed feelings of joy and sadness, “I’m torn.” McDonald said she had not been able to speak with her mother-in-law, but that her husband had.Gut-wrenching coverage of the Covenant School shooting from NewsChannel 5 Nashville, as reporter Hannah McDonald shares that her mother-in-law works at the school’s front desk and was coming back from a break when she heard gunshots coming from inside the building.
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