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Audrey Hale kept multiple journals about motive, but no highly anticipated 'manifesto,' police say
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.
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Covenant School trans shooter plotted Nashville attack for years, kept notebooks with plans: final report
Nashville police have released their final report on the Covenant School shooter Audrey Hale, who killed three children and three adults in March 2023.