Transgender school shooter Audrey Hale’s manifesto WILL be released, Nashville police say, after they were accused of covering up her massacre plot
- Police will release Audrey Hale’s manifesto from the March 27 mass shooting
- The detailed plan has been referred to as a ‘blueprint on total destruction’
- It’s unclear if police will censor the manifesto that keeps officials up at night
Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale’s manifesto will be released, Nashville police have confirmed, after they were accused of covering the blueprint for destruction up.
A police source confirmed the impending release of the document to the New York Post on Thursday.
But they did not say when it would be made public – and were also unable to confirm whether its contents would be shared in their entirety.
Hale’s detailed writings have been referred to as a ‘blueprint on total destruction’ detailing on why she chose to enter The Covenant School on March 27 and kill three children and three members of staff.
No motive for the massacre has yet been given.
Hale fired 152 rounds from two assault rifles and a handgun, murdering Hallie Scruggs, William Kinney, Evelyn Dieckhaus, all 9, and headmistress Dr. Katherine Koonce, 60, substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, 61, and custodian Mike Hill, 61.
Audrey Hale, 28, had detailed writings plotting her sick attack months before she butchered three kids and three adults at The Covenant School last week
Hale, 28, had fired 152 rounds from two an assault rifle and a handgun during the vile shooting that rocked the US. Pictured: Hale before transitioning to male
Officers retrieved the ‘manifesto’ – along with hand-drawn maps, a suicide note, 20 journals, laptops, phones and several writings, from Hale’s home and the Honda Fit she left in the school parking lot.
One official with the Metro Nashville Police Department said the contents of Hale’s manifesto ‘keeps him up at night.’
Metro Nashville Councilmember Courtney Johnston previously suggested that the manifesto would not be released in its entirety.
‘What I was told is, her manifesto was a blueprint on total destruction, and it was so, so detailed at the level of what she had planned,’ Johnston said.
Johnston, however, says after speaking with investigators, she doesn’t think it would be good for the rest of America to deal with the toll reading it has taken on them.
‘I personally don’t want to know the depths to which her psychosis reached … When I’m told by an MNPD high-ranking official that it keeps him up at night, I’m going to defer to that person in that agency that I don’t need to read that.’
While police are working to release the manifesto, they didn’t clarify in an inquiry from the New York Post how much would be showed to the public.
‘The investigation has advanced to the point that writings from the Covenant shooter are now being reviewed for public release and that process is underway and will take a little time,’ a police department spokesperson told the news outlet.
The manifesto has been shared with the FBI’s behavioral analysis unit in Quantico, Virginia, and detail Hale’s ‘planning over a period of months to commit mass murder’ at the school, according to police.
For some, Hale’s decision to target the Christian elementary school she once attended, together with her changing gender identify, suggest the attack was a manifestation of violent transgender activism.
Hale was born female but used the names Audrey and Aiden, together with he/him pronouns. There is a debate over how to correctly refer to her in media reports. She’s been described as having ‘high-functioning autism.’
Reporters have revealed that Hale’s conservative, Christian parents could not accept she was gay or trans, which may amount to personal motivations for the attack. She was also grieving the recent death of a friend in a vehicle accident.
Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9, was one of the victims shot by transgender shooter Audrey Hale, 28, after she opened fire at the private Christian school on Monday
Tributes have flooded in for a second victim, Will Kinney, (pictured) who was shot and killed along with Hallie Scruggs, both 9, in the massacre
Hallie Scruggs, 9, was killed in the shooting and is pictured with her father, a pastor at the church, Chad Scruggs
Katherine Koonce, head of school (left), and Cynthia Peak, a substitute teacher (right) were among those shot dead by Audrey Hale
The daughter of Mike Hill (pictured), who had worked at the school for more than a decade, said that she ‘never thought’ he would be killed in a mass shooting
On the day of the shooting, Hale attacked the school, which she previously attended, at around 10 in the morning. She sent a suicide note to an old friend before storming into the school.
Within minutes, Hale shot and killed six people, including three students. Police entered the school about ten minutes later and gunned her down.
Police have previously said Hale mentioned another location in her manifesto, but decided that there was too much security to launch an attack.
Hale has since been surpassed by another American mass shooter.
Connor Sturgeon, 23, a bank employee armed with a rifle shot dead five colleagues and wounded nine other people at his workplace in Louisville on Monday while livestreaming the attack on social media
Another young transgender person — William Whitworth, 19, who goes by the name Lilly — is in police custody, after officers recovered a manifesto detailing her plan to attack three schools and churches in Colorado.
TIMELINE OF NASHVILLE SCHOOL SHOOTING
9:30am – Metro Police Chief John Drake confirmed that Audrey Hale, 28, left her parents property with a red bag. She was questioned by her mother about the bag but dismissed the question.
9:53am — Hale arrives at the Covenant School in her Honda Fit. She is seen in surveillance footage driving around the parking lot, going out of frame and parking at about 9:55 a.m.
9:57am – Hale sends a goodbye message on Instagram to Averianna Patton. The message said: ‘This is my last goodbye. I love you. See you again in another life.’ She then responds, telling Hale that she has so much more to live for.
Hale replies again, saying one day, ‘this will make more sense’ but ‘something bad is about to happen.’
10:03am – Averianna Patton calls the suicide prevention hotline to try to report the messages that she has been sent by Hale. They tell her to contact the local sheriff’s department.
10:10am – Hale approaches a side entrance to the private Christian school and shoots through the glass doors to gain entry with her two AR-style rifles and a handgun.
10:12am – Patton makes an emotional call to 911 asking them to check on Hale after the disturbing messages. She is told that there is not much officers can do without an address for her.
10:13am – First shots-fired call to 911.
10:14am – Hale walks through a school hallway and walks around the property for several minutes. She then passes the children’s ministry before firing shots at 10:21 a.m. and then walking out of the video frame.
10:24am – The first Metro Police officers arrive on the scene, with Officer Englebert unlocking the door and entering the school. The five-member tactical unit enters the school and starts its search for the shooter.
10:27am – The team of officers encounters the shooter on the second-floor atrium. Police said Hale had been firing through a window at arriving officers. Englebert, alongside Officer Michael Collazo, shot and killed Hale.
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