From New York Post: The transgender Covenant School shooter wrote a list of the “advantages” and “disadvantages” of attacking another Nashville school she attended — but ultimately backed out because the student body was mostly black, according to twisted journal entries released by the FBI this week.
Audrey Hale, who killed six people at the Christian elementary school in 2023, was considering carrying out the carnage at I.T. Creswell Middle School, according to an entry penned sometime in 2021, but was concerned she would “influence rasist [sic] white shooters.”
Hale’s parents suggested in an interview with police after the shooting that Hale became interested in black culture during her time at Creswell Middle School, where she played basketball on the mostly black team as a student, according to audio obtained by conservative outlet the Tennessee Star.
“I think, somehow, maybe in her mind — you know, she felt because of being in this school, and on this athletic team, and these girls, you know, liked her and were on the team … she felt accepted,” the killer’s mother told detectives.
Hale attended Creswell Middle School between fifth and eighth grades. The school was listed as her “1st choice” for the planned massacre.
In a list of the “disadvantages” of attacking the middle school, she listed, “[Predominantly] black school (black people I love).”
Another reason she gave for not attacking that school was, “Black community in despair [and] suffering (I don’t want to cause that) = don’t want to harm them = dread.”
“Black friends [and] black community will hate me,” she wrote as a third con.
She also worried that murdering black students would be “likely to influence rasist [sic] white shooters in future.”
Hale chose to attack the Covenant School in part because it’s a “predominantly white school” and “white people I hate!”
Read more at New York Post
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