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WATCH: Melissa Joan Hart Tearfully Details Helping Kindergarten Class Escape Nashville School Shooting

<p>Actress <strong>Melissa Joan Hart<&sol;strong> posted an emotional video to Instagram on Tuesday and revealed she helped kindergarteners escape the school shooting in <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;&quest;s&equals;nashville&amp&semi;post&lowbar;type&percnt;5B&percnt;5D&equals;post&amp&semi;post&lowbar;type&percnt;5B&percnt;5D&equals;list&lowbar;posts&amp&semi;&lowbar;gl&equals;1&ast;f6ypcp&ast;&lowbar;up&ast;MQ&period;&period;&ast;&lowbar;ga&ast;ODA4NDkwNzQ4LjE2ODAxMDMyOTA&period;&ast;&lowbar;ga&lowbar;V2HX8YP3XL&ast;MTY4MDEwMzI4Ni4xLjAuMTY4MDEwMzI4Ni4wLjAuMA&period;&period;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>Nashville<&sol;strong><&sol;a> on Monday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Three 9-year-olds and three school staff members were killed at the Covenant School when the shooter&comma; identified as 28-year-old Audrey Hale&comma; broke into the academy and began shooting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Sabrina the Teenage Witch” star and Nashville resident shared her experience in an <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;p&sol;CqVwpKXj&lowbar;RE&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>Instagram<&sol;strong><&sol;a> video to her nearly 2 million followers&comma; a day later&period; She says her children &&num;8211&semi; sons Mason&comma; 17&comma; Braden&comma; 15&comma; and Tucker&comma; 10 &&num;8211&semi; attend school &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;right next to” where the massacre occurred&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We moved here from Connecticut where we were in school a little ways down from Sandy Hook&comma; so this is our second experience with a school shooting with our kids being in close proximity&comma;” the 46-year-old told her 1&period;7 million followers&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Luckily we are all okay&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"CqVwpKXj&lowbar;RE" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Melissa &amp&semi; Joey” star said she and her husband&comma; Mark Wilkerson&comma; didn&&num;8217&semi;t hesitate for a second when trying to help the young children who &&num;8220&semi;were trying to escape&&num;8221&semi; the school&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The couple just happened to be on the way to their sons&&num;8217&semi; school for conferences&comma; she says&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<p id&equals;"mntl-sc-block&lowbar;1-0-12">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;My husband and I were on our way to school for conferences&period; Luckily our kids weren’t in today&comma;” Hart tearfully explained&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14px&semi; font-weight&colon; 300&semi;">She added&colon; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon; 14px&semi; font-weight&colon; 300&semi;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We helped a class of kindergartners across a busy highway&period; They were climbing out of the woods&comma; they were trying to escape a shooter situation at their school&period; So we helped these tiny little kids cross the road and get their teachers over there&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1640722840319143938" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h5 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">RELATED&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;nashville-school-shooter-stalks-hallways-after-breaking-into-building-im-planning-to-die-today&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Alleged Nashville School Shooter Filmed Firing Into Building Doors After Leaving Alleged Suicide Note&colon; &OpenCurlyQuote;I’m Planning To Die Today’<&sol;a><&sol;h5>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We helped a mom reunite with her children and I just … I don’t know what to say&period; Enough is enough&period; Just pray&comma; pray for the families&comma;” she went on to say&period;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Prayers today&comma; Action tomorrow&comma;” she captioned the minute-long clip&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This was too raw to post yesterday but wanted you to hear this story&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Authorities say that on Monday morning&comma; Audrey Hale shot her way into the Christian academy&comma; armed with two assault rifles and a handgun&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hale&comma; described by investigators as a former student at the school&comma; murdered the six victims before police fatally shot her&comma; just 14 minutes after authorities received the call regarding an active shooter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The victims were named Monday afternoon&colon; Evelyn Dieckhaus&comma; Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney&comma; all age 9&period; Three adult school staffers were also killed&colon; substitute teacher Cynthia Peak and custodian Mike Hill&comma; both 61&comma; and school headmistress Katherine Koonce&comma; 60&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; center&semi;&semi;"> <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-container" data-ver&equals;"1&period;3&period;10" data-post&lowbar;id&equals;"117598" data-show&lowbar;count&equals;"true" data-enable&lowbar;share&equals;"onclick" data-behavior&equals;"regular" data-animation&equals;"true" data-share&lowbar;url&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;melissa-joan-hart-nashville-school&sol;" data-secure&equals;"40a47892f0"> <div class&equals;"wpra-call-to-action" style&equals;"color&colon; 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