Nashville cop recalls role taking down school shooter: ‘Call it fate or God or whatever’

Metropolitan Nashville police Officer Rex Engelbert believed March 27 would be an average day at work, but by that afternoon, he had been declared a hero. Engelbert was part of a team of officers that took down a shooter who had killed six people — including three children — inside The Covenant School. At a news conference this week, Engelbert slowly and solemnly detailed the actions he took to help stop the shooter, identified by police as 28-year-old Audrey Hale. Hale died as a result of the shots fired by Engelbert and others. After first offering condolences to the families of the victims,...