Nashville school shooting victim has North Texas ties

DALLAS – FOX 4 has realized the lethal faculty capturing in Nashville, Tennessee, Monday morning has North Texas ties. 

The 9-year-old daughter of a former pastor at Park Cities Presbyterian Church in Dallas has been recognized as one of many younger victims in Monday’s mass faculty capturing. 

 Chad Scruggs labored on the Dallas church from 2013 to 2018 as an affiliate pastor. A YouTube video from Park Cities’ web page in 2020 reveals Scruggs staying in touch with the Dallas church after his transfer to Nashville. 

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Scruggs is at the moment the lead pastor at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nashville the place police say a 28-year-old transgender lady opened hearth contained in the personal Christian faculty.

 Three workers members of their 60s had been killed.  Additionally, three kids had been killed, together with Chad Scruggs’ daughter, Hallie Scruggs. 

 The shooter, who’s believed to be a former scholar of the college, was killed by police. 

Park Cities Presbyterian Church Senior Pastor Mark David launched a press release to FOX 4 saying “we love the Scruggs household and mourn with them over their valuable daughter, Hallie.”

Throughout his time in Dallas, Chad was additionally a campus minister at Reformed College Fellowship at SMU. 

Park Cities says Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nashville is a sister church, and most of the members in Dallas have deep friendships and household connections in Tennessee. 

Park Cities’ present affiliate pastor, Paul Goebel, wrote “we weep deeply for the unimaginable sorrow that our associates at Covenant Presbyterian Church and college are struggling and can proceed to undergo.”

 The Dallas church says it’ll open its doorways Tuesday for a prayer service, providing its religion household a spot to grieve.