Who were Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, student victims killed in Covenant School, Nashville shooting?
Isabella Floyd
Updated on February 06, 2026
Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney were recognized as the understudies who were lethally shot in the Contract School, Nashville shooting
Scruggs was the girl of Chad Scruggs, a main leader at Pledge Presbyterian Church
The suspect has been named as Audrey Solidness.
Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney were distinguished as the understudies who were lethally shot in the Contract School, Nashville shooting on Monday. The suspect has been named as Audrey Sound.
Three understudies and as many staff individuals were killed in the school shooting. Every one of the kids were nine years of age and the grown-ups were in their 60s.
Nashville school shooting casualties:
9 year old Evelyn Dieckhaus
9 year old Hallie Scruggs
9 year old William Kinney
61 year old Cynthia Pinnacle
60 year old Katherine Koonce
61 year old Mike Slope
As indicated by a CBS News report, the Nashville Presbytery affirmed that 9-year-old Scruggs was the little girl of Chad Scruggs, a chief minister at Pledge Presbyterian Church.
Nashville school shooting victims:
9 year old Evelyn Dieckhaus
9 year old Hallie Scruggs
9 year old William Kinney
61 year old Cynthia Peak
60 year old Katherine Koonce
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As indicated by the site of The Pledge School, Katherine Koonce was the top of the school. Her LinkedIn profile says she has driven the school since July 2016.
Each of the three grown-ups worked at the school. Mike Slope was a caretaker. Top was recognized by the authorities as a substitute educator.
Audrey Sound was outfitted with two attack style weapons and a handgun, specialists said. No less than two of them were accepted to have been gotten to legitimately in the Nashville region.
The assault at The Pledge School comes as networks around the nation are staggering from a spate of school brutality. Individuals are contrasting the assault with a slaughter at a primary school in Uvalde, Texas, last year when a first grader shot his educator in Virginia; and a shooting last week in Denver that injured two heads.
Police said their underlying examination shows that the shooter was at one at once at the school however it was not satisfactory when they might have joined in.