Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson East has spoken about her heartbreaking Monday when she received a phone call from someone at her children’s school saying they were locked in the middle of a shooting at a Christian private school in Nashville, Tennessee.
Johnson East said her husband, former NFL player Andrew East, was able to pick up their children from school and posted videos to her Instagram Stories showing her hugging their children as they got home.
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Andrew East and Shawn Johnson East arrive at the 2021 People’s Choice Awards held at the Barker Hangar on December 7, 2021 in Santa Monica, California. (Rich Polk/E! Entertainment/NBCUniversal/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
Several people were killed when a 28-year-old woman opened fire at The Covenant School. Johnson East posted video of school buses with police escort.
«I haven’t been able to catch my breath since reading the news and getting a call from our school that they were on lockdown too given the news. Shaking. Crying. Heartbroken. Awful,» he wrote in a subsequent message on his account. Instagram Stories.
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Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson visits her fiance, Kansas City Chiefs long snapper Andrew East (48), after the team’s training camp practice Wednesday morning, Aug. 5, 2015, at Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph, Mo. (David Eulitt/Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
«Our babies are now home with us. I feel lucky and blessed, but still incredibly sad. No parent or family should have to deal with this.»
«I have seen children’s ambulances, countless police cars, buses with children being transported to safety, parents flying down the street honking their horns, people running in and out of churches and schools looking for their children. Today I was struck by changed».
Johnson East added, «A friend said it best… Nashville is so much more than a city, it’s a family. Everyone is two degrees apart and knows each other, prays for each other, goes to church together.»
Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson attends the «Before I Fall» New York special screening at Landmark Sunshine Cinema on February 28, 2017 in New York City. (Gary Gershoff/Wire Image)
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Johnson East and East have two children together, a 3-year-old and a 1-year-old. The family lives in Nashville.