Former ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’ actress recounted helping children busy highway as shooting unfolded ‘right next to’ her children’s school.
Actress Melissa Joan Hart says she helped students fleeing the Covenant Catholic School shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, Monday, escape to safety.
The Nashville-based “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” actress recounted in an Instagram post Tuesday how she and her husband were able to help the children as the mass shooting where 3 children and 3 adults died happened “right next to” their own children’s school.
“My husband and I were on our way to school for conferences,” she explained, “and luckily our kids weren’t in today, and we helped a class of kindergartners across a busy highway that were climbing out of the woods, that were trying to escape the shooter situation at their school.”
“We helped all these tiny little … kids cross the road and get their teachers over there, and we helped a mom reunite with her children.”
Hart says she moved to Tennessee from Connecticut where she lived in Newtown “a little ways down” from Sandy Hook where a similar school shooting unfolded in 2012 leaving 20 children and six adults dead.
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Hart and [her husband Mark] Wilkerson are parents of Mason, 17, Braydon, 15, and Tucker, 10. The family relocated to Tennessee from Connecticut. In her video on her verified Instagram account, Hart noted that they used to live near Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, where a shooter killed 26 people in 2012.
“So this is our second experience with a school shooting with our kids being in close proximity,” the “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” star said. “Luckily, we are all OK.”
The former “Clarissa Explains It All” Nickelodeon child star concluded her video by echoing a popular gun control mantra, saying, “I just don’t know what to say anymore. It is just, enough is enough.”
“Just pray…Just pray for the families,” she added.
Hart’s Instagram post was captioned, “Prayers today, Action tomorrow,” suggesting she backs restrictions on the Second Amendment.
Hart’s incredible tale comes as police investigate the motive behind 28-year-old female-to-male transgender suspect Audrey Hale’s rampage.
