US First Lady Jill Biden will attend a vigil in memory of the victims of the shooting at an elementary school in Nashville on Wednesday night in Nashville, according to her spokeswoman.
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“Our children deserve better,” Jill Biden said Monday after learning that a gunman had just shot dead three students and three staff at a Christian school in Nashville.
After a trip to Ohio, she will travel to the Tennessee capital on Wednesday evening, her spokeswoman Vanessa Valdivia said on Twitter.
She will attend a candlelight vigil being held in a park by the city’s Democratic Mayor, John Cooper.
On Monday, 28-year-old Audrey Hale broke into Covenant School with two assault rifles and a handgun, causing death before police shot her dead.
The tragedy, the motive for which is unknown, has sparked widespread excitement and renewed debate about the circulation of firearms in the United States, where they are the leading cause of death among minors.
President Joe Biden called the violence in America “soul-wrenching” and renewed his calls for a ban on assault rifles.