Covenant School trans shooter plotted Nashville attack for years, kept notebooks with plans: final report

FIRST ON FOX: Nashville constabulary person released their last study connected the Covenant School massacre – a targeted March 2023 onslaught connected a Christian schoolhouse by a transgender shooter who killed 3 third-graders and 3 adults.

Rather than a highly anticipated manifesto, the study recovered that slayer Audrey Hale near down galore notebooks, creation books and machine documents astir her plans to perpetrate the onslaught and summation notoriety, partially inspired by the Columbine schoolhouse shooting successful 1999.

Hale, the 28-year-old attacker and biologic female, began "fantasizing" astir and researching wide shootings arsenic acold backmost arsenic 2017, according to investigators. A twelvemonth later, she wrote "detailed fantasies" astir shooting up the Isaac T. Creswell Middle Magnet School for the Arts, sidesplitting her begetter and sidesplitting her psychiatrist. 

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Audrey Hale wrote successful notebooks, journals and diaries for years, betwixt 2017 and 2023. (Metro Nashville Police Department)

"In this case, a manifesto didn’t exist," the papers reads. "Hale ne'er near down a azygous papers explaining wherefore she committed the attack, wherefore she specifically targeted The Covenant, and what she hoped to gain, if anything, with the attack."

Instead, her motives were scattered crossed those galore notebooks and different writings, investigators found. They included an representation showing much than two-dozen notebooks seized from Hale's car and bedroom. They besides said she near a termination enactment addressed to her parents.

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Covenant School shooter Audrey Hale walks past the Children's Ministry desk. (Twitter @MNPDNashville)

Because of Hale's accordant diaries implicit a play of years, constabulary said they were capable to cod acold much accusation astir her than successful a emblematic investigation.

The Covenant School was attached to a religion that Hale erstwhile attended. The 9-year-old victims included the pastor's girl Hallie Scruggs, Evelyn Dieckhaus and William Kinney. Police identified the adults arsenic 60-year-old Head of School Katherine Koonce, Cynthia Peak, 61, and Mike Hill, 61.

The slayer besides had plans for "B" and "C" targets – the Opry Mills Mall and a agelong of Belmont Boulevard adjacent Belmont University field successful Nashville. If her parents discovered her plans, she decided she would termination them and onslaught the Belmont target, according to investigators. 

She spent months practicing astatine the firing scope and painted the operation "Dark Abyss" connected her apparel and guns. That was the sanction she had fixed to her depression.

A homemade garment made by Audrey Hale and recovered successful her bedroom. (Metro Nashville Police Department)

But the onslaught was delayed aggregate times, including erstwhile aft the decease of a adjacent person successful a car crash. 

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Hale, who began utilizing the sanction "Aiden Williams" successful the years earlier her death, was killed by responding officers successful harrowing bodycam video.

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