Nashville school shooting: Reporter reveals on air, ‘I am a survivor’

While covering a deadly school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, a local reporter said that she is also a survivor of a school shooting.

While covering a deadly school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, a local reporter said that she is also a survivor of a school shooting.

On March 27, a 28-year-old shot and killed three children and three staff members at The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville for children in preschool through sixth grade. Police shot and killed the shooter.

Joylyn Bukovac, a local reporter for WSMV 4, was on the scene and in the midst of her coverage shared that she had survived a school shooting as a child.

“This is something that hits very close to home for me — many of you might not know this, but I am actually a school shooting survivor,” Bukovac said. “It happened a while ago — I was in middle school.”

Bukovac noted that nearly 380 school shootings have occurred since the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado.