Woodmont provides sanctuary after school shooting
Posted on AllSides March 29th, 2023
From The Center
NASHVILLE (BP)—They never had ridden a bus before, youth minister Beth Howe said of preschoolers transported to Woodmont Baptist Church in Nashville after an active shooter targeted their private Christian elementary school two miles away. One little girl asked why there were bad guys. Howe bandaged the scratches on the arm of another who had been at recess when the shooting began. “She jumped in the bushes to hide when they heard the gunshots,” said Howe, Woodmont’s minister of students and discipleship. About 10:13 a.m., 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale had...
