The feds may be preparing to dump a trove of documents on the motives of the transgender person behind the massacre of Christian children and teachers in Nashville, Tennessee.
Specifically, a Nashville City Council member expects the killer’s manifesto to be released soon after a review by the F.B.I. and the Nashville police is concluded.
Councilman Robert Swope told the New York Post, “The manifesto is going to be released. It’s just a matter of when. There are some incredibly brilliant psychological minds and psychological analysts combing through her entire life.”
According to Swope, the F.B.I.’s Behavioral Analysis Unit is working “in tandem with” Nashville police to perform “a very in-depth analysis of certain aspects of the shooter’s life.”
Still, Swope declined to give an explicit timeline.
Police shot and killed the shooter in the act. Later, they searched her home and found detailed maps of the school, presumably alongside the manifesto.
“We have a manifesto, we have some writings that we’re going over that pertain to this date, the actual incident,” Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake said at one of several news conferences, according to the Associated Press. “We have a map drawn out of how this was all going to take place.”
After searching the home, police also said that they found a sawed-off shotgun, a second shotgun and other unspecified evidence.
Swope told the NY Post that the shooter had “looked at” two other schools before targeting The Covenant School.
“The security was too great to do what she wanted to do,” Swope told the NY Post while on the way to a vigil Wednesday night. “So she chose a private Christian school, for, probably the reason is that the security is a whole lot less.”
Recently, terrorists have amassed an infamous history of manifestos. Just last year, the racist supermarket killer in Buffalo saw his manifesto go public after his crime, and so did the gay nightclub shooter in Slovakia.
The Nashville killer’s victims included three 9-year-old children, the school’s top administrator, a substitute teacher, and a custodian.
The victims were identified as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all 9 years old, and adults Cynthia Peak, 61; Katherine Koonce, 60; and Mike Hill, 61.
The Horn editorial team and the Associated Press contributed to this article.