Police said the monster who massacred six Christians at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee — including three 9-year-old children — had been planning the massacre for months.
Now the public may finally get the motive for the slaughter at The Covenant School, a small Christian elementary school where the 28-year-old transgendered shooter was once a student, according to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department. Both Nashville police and FBI agents have reviewed writings left behind by Audrey Hale, both in Hale’s vehicle and home, police said.
20 diaries, 5 laptops, a suicide note, and more were seized by authorities from the killer’s parent’s house — as well as 2 memoirs, 5 Covenant School yearbooks, and several cellphones.
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“The investigation has progressed to the point where the Covenant shooter’s writings are now being reviewed for public release,” MNPD’s Public Information Office said. “This process is currently underway and will take some time.”
The writings are a “blueprint on total destruction” local authorities have warned, and one police official said the writings “keeps him up at night.”
The three children who were slaughtered in the shooting were Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney. The three adults were Katherine Koonce, 60, the head of the school, custodian Mike Hill, 61, and 61-year-old substitute teacher Cynthia Peak.
Audrey Hale fired 152 rounds during the attack before being killed by police. That included 126 rifle rounds and 26 nine-millimeter rounds, according to police.
Tennessee’s Republican governor and supermajority Republican legislature have moved to loosen gun laws in recent years. The same day as the Covenant shooting a federal judge quietly cleared the way to drop the minimum age for Tennesseans to carry handguns publicly without a permit to 18 — just two years after a new law set the age at 21.
Police have said previously that Hale was under a doctor’s care for an undisclosed “emotional disorder.” However, authorities haven’t disclosed a link between that care and the shooting. Police also said Hale was not on their radar before the attack.
Social media accounts and other sources indicate that the shooter identified as a man and might have recently begun using the first name Aiden.
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Police have said Hale “was assigned female at birth” but used masculine pronouns on a social media profile. However, police have continued to use female pronouns and the name Audrey to describe Hale.
The Horn editorial team and the Associated Press contributed to this article