
Covenant School community find healing in faith, adopted dogs a year following tragedy
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Students, families and staff of Covenant School in Nashville have come together as a community through faith and adoption of dogs a year after the school shooting.
Some things stand out though. He remembers walking to safety with the students in a human chain and one of them asking, "Where’s Evelyn?" He remembers the eerie feeling he got when he realized that Head of School Katherine Koonce was not responding on the text thread among the teachers. He remembers the endless waiting at a nearby church as students were slowly reconnected with parents. No one had a comprehensive list of students; it took hours to make sure everyone was accounted for and with their proper guardians.
It wasn’t until much later that evening that Sullivan learned which of his pupils and colleagues he would never see again: Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all 9 years old; Koonce, 60; custodian Mike Hill, 61; and 61-year-old substitute teacher Cynthia Peak.













