She gave the interview while wearing a t-shirt with the words: 'A rock in bad hands killed Able. At the end of the day that's what happened ultimately, and they did their job. We were very proud, but at the same time very said that he had to go through what he did, that every one of those families and children had to go through what they did.'ĭeHart said police 'did save a lot of lives.

She added: 'When we first found out, it's a weird feeling, our hearts shattered into a thousand pieces. Collazo, wearing a baseball cap and armed with only a handgun, approached the downed shooter, who was still armed and moving, and unleashed four more shots to neutralize her.ĭeHart said: 'I knew my brother was brave, it wasn't until I saw the video that I really processed how brave.' Less than three minutes after Collazo and Engelbert entered the school to respond to the incident, Hale was dead.Įngelbert, armed with a scoped rifle, bravely led a team towards Hale's gunfire then fired four shots which brought her down. He was hailed a hero along with Rex Engelbert, 27, both of the Nashville Metro Police, after they took down Hale. 'It's a sad situation but he's aware he has a lot of support behind him, but is also aware that it's a terrible situation to have to go through for everybody and he knows that the world's watching,' she told NewsNation.Ī group of young students at the Covenant School were seen fleeing the building across a nearby road after the shooting startedĬollazo is a Marine Corps veteran who also previously responded to the Christmas 2020 bombing in Nashville, when attacker Anthony Quinn Warner detonated a bomb in downtown, killing himself and injuring eight others. A group of young children were filmed being led across a road away from the school after they escaped the building during the attack.ĭeHart, who wore a t-shirt emblazoned with a gun rights slogan for her interview, said Collazo is 'doing as well as can be expected'. She also gave a moving tribute to the victims as more harrowing images emerged of children fleeing the school during the shooting. The sister of a hero police officer who gunned down the Covenant School shooter in Nashville said her heart 'shattered into a thousand pieces' when she learned about the tragedy.ĭeanna DeHart, the older sister of Michael Collazo - one of two officers who shot dead Audrey Hale following the murder of three children and three staff members - said her brother and his colleagues 'saved a lot of lives' through their quick response.

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