Sheryl Crow, Margo Price and Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show delivered powerful performances at a candlelight vigil held in honor of the victims and survivors of the shooting at Covenant School, for students in preschool through sixth grade, earlier this week in Nashville, Tennessee.

People flooded into Public Square Park in Downtown Nashville to grieve and support one another, holding onto candles as Nashville Mayor John Cooper, Metro Council member Russ Pulley, Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake, First Lady Jill Biden and others attended and spoke at the vigil on Wednesday evening (March 29). Middle Tennesseans and others mourned the loss of six victims, including three children, who died when a 28-year-old former student of the private Christian school entered the building armed with two AR-style rifles and a handgun, which police perviously confirmed were obtained legally. The victims were identified as 9-year-old students Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, in addition to substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, 61, headmaster Katherine Koonce, 60, and custodian Mike Hill, 61. Vigils were quickly organized and ways to help the families were established. Metro Nashville Police Department officers Rex Engelbert and Michael Collazo have been hailed as heroes for their swift response in killing the attacker on Monday morning (March 27).

Mani Millss