Covenant School student Monroe Joyce, 10, looks on as her mother, Mary, becomes emotional during the “Linking Arms for Change” event to commemorate the first anniversary of the mass shooting the school. (Photo: John Partipilo)
Wednesday marked the first anniversary of a mass shooting at Nashville’s Covenant School in which three adults and three children were killed before police killed the shooter.
Nashvillians commemorated the day in vigils both private and public, the largest of which was the “Linking Arms for Change” event, in which thousands of people lined up, shoulder to shoulder, stretching from the Monroe Carell Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt University Medical Center — where victims were taken after the shooting to the Tennessee Capitol. Sponsored by Voices for a Safer Tennessee, an organization that formed after the shooting to call attention to the need for safe gun legislation, the event mirrored one held in April 2023.
Photojournalist John Partipilo covered Wednesday’s event.
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