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From Fox News: Nashville police have released their final report on the Covenant School massacre – a targeted March 2023 attack on a Christian school by a transgender shooter who killed three third-graders and three adults.
Rather than a highly anticipated manifesto, the report found that killer Audrey Hale left behind numerous notebooks, art books and computer documents about her plans to commit the attack and gain notoriety, partly inspired by the Columbine school shooting in 1999.
Hale, the 28-year-old attacker and biological female, began “fantasizing” about and researching mass shootings as far back as 2017, according to investigators. A year later, she wrote “detailed fantasies” about shooting up the Isaac T. Creswell Middle Magnet School for the Arts, killing her father and killing her psychiatrist.
“In this case, a manifesto didn’t exist,” the document reads. “Hale never left behind a single document explaining why she committed the attack, why she specifically targeted The Covenant, and what she hoped to gain, if anything, with the attack.”
Instead, her motivations were scattered across those many notebooks and other writings, investigators found. They included an image showing more than two-dozen notebooks seized from Hale’s car and bedroom. They also said she left a suicide note addressed to her parents.
Hale’s sick wishes including wanting people to remember her, and wanting records of her life, artwork and journals to be preserved in museums around the world.
Investigators wrote, “Most disturbingly, she wanted the things she left behind to be shared with the world so she could inspire and teach others who were ‘mentally disordered’ like her to plan and commit an attack of their own.”
During the horrific attack on the Christian elementary school, Hale’s victims were identified as:
- Student Hallie Scruggs, 9, the pastor’s daughter
- Student Evelyn Dieckhaus9
- Student William Kinney, 9
- Head of School Katherine Koonce, 60
- Teacher Cynthia Peak, 61
- Custodian Mike Hill, 61
CLICK HERE to access the Nashville Police Department press release, dated April 2.
CLICK HERE to access the entire 48-page report just released by the Nashville Police Department.
Police acknowledged after the shooting on March 27, 2023 that Hale, a biological female, identified as transgender.
🚨#BREAKING: Nashville police has officially confirmed the school shooter that killed 6 as 28 year old Audrey Hale and has been Identified as transgender pic.twitter.com/TrDYHPnNJy
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) March 27, 2023
Don’t forget on #TransDayOfVisibility trans-men(WOMEN) like Audrey Hale killed three nine‑year‑old children and three adults before being shot and killed by two Metropolitan Nashville Police Department
Here is part of her twisted manifesto pic.twitter.com/g78cnQXOwd— Kildzr (@kildzr) March 31, 2025
Transgender Audrey Hale who murdered innocent people in the Nashville shooting
The Nashville Shooter has been identified as 28 year-old Audrey Hale.
Bodycam footage of NPD taking down Trans Nashville school shooter
This trans criminal shot up a school and k*IIed 6 people pic.twitter.com/1DDpTU2UNs
— Bhola (@sumityou40) April 1, 2025
Covenant School trans shooter plotted Nashville attack for years, kept notebooks with plans: final report https://t.co/3A4bkPlB5Z
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 2, 2025
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