Photo: Melissa Joan Hart/Instagram

Melissa Joan Hartbecame emotional as she opened up about helping small kindergartners get to safety after a fatal school shooting in Nashville on Monday morning.

Three 9-year-olds and three staff memberswere killed when a former student opened fire at a private Christian school.

“We moved here from Connecticutwhere we were in school a little ways down from Sandy Hook, so this is our second experience with a school shooting with our kids being in close proximity,” said Hart, 46. “Luckily we are all okay.”

She shared that she and her husband Mark Wilkerson — with whom she shares sons Mason, 17, Braden, 15, and Tucker, 10 — were in the middle of the aftermath and helped small children who “were trying to escape.”

“My husband and I were on our way to school for conferences. Luckily our kids weren’t in today,” Hart continued, becoming emotional. “We helped a class of Kindergartners across a busy highway. They were climbing out of the woods, they were trying to escape a shooter situation at their school. So we helped these tiny little kids cross the road and get their teachers over there.”

She concluded, “We helped a mom reunite with her children and I just … I don’t know what to say. Enough is enough. Just pray, pray for the families.”

In the caption, Hart shared why she wanted to wait to post the clip.

“Prayers today, Action tomorrow,” she wrote. “This was too raw to post yesterday but wanted you to hear this story.”

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The gender of the assailant is unclear. Police initially referred to the shooter as a female, and then said the assailant identifies as transgender.CNN reportsa police spokesperson told the station Hale used male pronouns on a social media profile.

The shooter had two “assault-type rifles” and one pistol, Nashville police spokesman Don Aaron said.

On Tuesday morning, police released body-camera footage from Englebert and Collazo of their encounter with the shooter.

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Prior to identifying the shooter, police announced that thevictimswere Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, William Kinney, all 9 and Katherine Koonce, 60, Mike Hill and Cynthia Peak, both 61.

“Our community is heartbroken,” the Covenant School said in a statement emailed to PEOPLE. “We are grieving tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our school and church. We are focused on loving our students, our families, our faculty and staff, and beginning the process of healing.”

According to statistics from theGun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are shot, regardless of the number of fatalities, there were 128 mass shootings in 2023 as of Monday morning.

How to help

You can donate to the families of the victims throughThe Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee.ViVEandVictimsFirsthave also created GoFundMe pages for donations. Bothfundraisers are verified.

source: people.com