The Nashville police officers who stopped the transgender shooting suspect accused of killing six people at a Christian school last week spoke out for the first time at a press conference Tuesday, detailing each of their personal accounts of rushing into the building, passing victims and ultimately taking out the threat. 

Police said Officer Rex Engelbert, a four-year veteran of the force, and Officer Michael Collazo, a nine-year veteran of the department who previously served in the Marine Corps, opened fire on Audrey Hale at The Covenant School on March 27. Hale already fatally shot three 9-year-old children and three adults – the head of the school, a substitute teacher and a custodian. 

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