When the editorial staff of Time magazine gets together in December to decide its 2023 Person(s) of the Year surely officers Rex Englebert and Michael Collazo of the Metro Nashville Police Department should be included in the conversation.
Englebert and Collazo, of course, are the officers who quickly ran toward the gunfire of Audrey Hale inside the Covenant School on March 27 and “neutralized” the suspect, limiting the number of victims to six.
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