Honors due for heroes

The officers who skillfully gunned down Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale should receive “the highest honors,” including an in-person visit to the White House, a police group said Friday.

Metro Nashville Police Officers Rex Engelbert (top left) and Michael Collazo (top right) who fired on Hale — bringing an abrupt end to her 14-minute shooting spree — and their team displayed “second-to-none” heroism when they rushed into the Covenant elementary school, said Joseph Imperatrice, founder of Blue Lives Matter New York City.

“These officers are heroes and the actions of the White House should reflect that with the highest honors awarded to them in person in Washington,” Imperatrice added.

Metro Nashville Police officers were seen in bodycamera footage running into the private elementary school at around 10:20 a.m. Monday, minutes after Hale, 28, shot through a locked side door and slipped in.

Hale killed three schoolchildren and three staffers before the officers were able to get to her on the second floor of the school.