Georgia Tech's Brent Key makes emotional plea for 'everybody' to 'do something' after Nashville shooting

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A shooting in an elementary school in Nashville left six people dead, including three 9-year-old children.

Georgia Tech football coach Brent Key did not have a direct tie to the tragedy, but his mother was a school teacher, and the events hit home for anyone with children of their own.

At a news conference on Wednesday, Key vowed that his stance was "nothing political and nothing religious," but he made an emotional plea for "everybody" to "do something."

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Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets interim head coach Brent Key before the game against the University of Georgia Bulldogs on Nov. 26, 2022, at Sanford Stadium in Athens. (David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

"I'm not gonna sit here and make any political statements or any religious statements, or anything about that. I will not do that. But something's gotta change," he said. "My mom was a third-grade school teacher her whole career, and I’ve got a 4-year-old daughter, about to be 5, who was doing a school play when that happened. The whole rest of the day, I'm messed up, my wife cried four or five times in the day, and that's magnified by millions across the country and the world. There’s nothing political and nothing religious made about this, but something has to change."

Key later added that he does not "care who tweets at me or says something" negative – he'd rather pay attention to those who agree with him.

Memorials for the six victims who were killed in a mass shooting are placed outside The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. (KR/Mega for Fox News Digital)

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