Who was Evelyn Dieckhaus? 9-year-old Nashville school shooting victim reportedly tried to pull fire alarm during attack
Henry Morales
Published Feb 06, 2026
Nine-year-old Evelyn Dieckhaus, one of the six casualties lethally gunned down during the Nashville mass shooting on Walk 27, purportedly attempted to pull an alarm to caution the specialists and save others during the assault.
Audrey Sound, matured 28, who as of late emerged as transsexual, headed to The Contract School, a Christian instructive establishment in Nashville on Monday, killing three staff members and three youngsters, including Evelyn Dieckhaus, before the answering officials shot her dead.
On Monday night, at a genuinely charged vigil for Evelyn Dieckhaus, her family, who depicted the little kid as a ‘focusing light’, uncovered that during the dynamic shooting episode, Evelyn attempted to initiate the alarm to caution the specialists.
Loved ones of Nashville shooting Evelyn Dieckhaus casualty stand up on the overwhelming misfortune A companion secretly addressed the Missourian and depicted Evelyn Dieckhaus as an imaginative person who might frequently give performances close by her sister Eleanor in their terrace.
As per the Tennessean, during a vigil on Monday, Woodmont Christian Church senior pastor Dirt Stauffer said that Evelyn’s sister Eleanor, who was at the school and endure the assault, was crushed by the passing of her kin.
Stauffer, who addressed a room brimming with individuals and had assembled to grieve the youthful casualty, reviewed Eleanor’s overwhelming reaction subsequent to hearing her sister was killed in the occurrence and cited her as saying that she would have rather not been the lone kid in the family.
The little kid’s family supposedly given a proclamation expressing that they were devastated after the demise of their youngster. The assertion read:
“We can’t really accept that this has occurred. Evelyn was a focusing light in this world. We value all the adoration and support however request space as we lament.”
Evelyn Dieckhaus was killed close by nine-year-olds William Kinney and Hallie Scruggs. Three staff individuals, Cynthia Pinnacle, a substitute educator, Michael Slope, an overseer, and Katherine Koonce, the head of Contract School, were likewise killed in the shooting.
As recently announced, 9-year-old Hallie Scruggs, who was killed in the mass shooting, was the most youthful little girl of the main leader at Pledge Presbyterian Church, Chad Scruggs.
While the lamenting dad, Chad Scruggs, has not tended to the demise of his little girl, The Tennessean detailed that Mark Davis, top leader at Park Urban communities Presbyterian Church, stretched out his help to the family and gave an assertion saying:
This is Evelyn Dieckhaus.
She gave her life trying to save her classmates by pulling the fire alarm to stop the transgender terrorist at the Covenant Elementary School in Nashville.
She was gunned down and murdered.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) March 29, 2023
The New York Post uncovered that the substitute educator, Cynthia Pinnacle, who was killed in the school shooting, was “dearest companions” with the spouse of Tennessee Lead representative Bill Lee. In a video posted on Twitter, the Lead representative uncovered the association between the ladies and grieved the people in question.
Directly following the episode, GoFundMe for nine-year-old Evelyn Dieckhaus has raised more than $83,000. The returns will purportedly go towards covering the youthful casualty’s burial service costs.