FRANKLIN, Tenn. (WTVF) — It was another startling claim by Franklin candidate for mayor Gabrielle Hanson, a claim that she tried to warn police just days before Nashville's Covenant School shooting back in March.
Now, NewsChannel 5 Investigates has obtained video evidence — from the body-worn camera of the officer Hanson claims to have warned — to prove it never happened.
Hanson, a Franklin alderman, made the claim earlier this year in an interview with the podcast, the Mill Creek View.
See police bodycam video on NewsChannel 5 at 6PM
"The Wednesday before that shooting was when the police came to my house to register the report for the phone calls and the death threats," Hanson said, referring to threats she claimed to have received in response to her opposition to Franklin's Pride Festival.
"I looked at that officer and I said, 'I'm telling you right now I have zero, zero basis for what I am about to tell you, other than my gut. Nobody has tipped me off, nobody has said anything. But my gut is telling me there is going to be an active shooter.' I felt it, I just felt it. Don't ask me how. It could be a Holy Spirit thing, but I felt an active shooter coming."
Which is why NewsChannel 5 Investigates filed a public records request for the officer's bodycam video.
If Hanson is to be believed, we anticipated that we would find evidence there, in the video, to support her claims that she had indeed tried to sound the alarm.
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