Deranged school shooter Audrey Hale was at odds with her devout Christian parents because they “couldn’t accept” that she was gay and transgender, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.
Church coordinator Norma, 61, and her husband Ronald, 64, refused to let Hale – who had recently taken the name Aiden and used he/him pronouns – dress as a man at home.
The 28-year-old loner would instead wait until she left their $700,000 property in Nashville to change her outfit, according to a well-placed source.
“You only see what you want to see. Their religion does not allow them to accept homosexuality,” the source told DailyMail.com.
Audrey Hale posed sweetly with a bow in her hair and was the image of innocence in her eight-year-old yearbook photo from The Covenant School, the school she attacked yesterday
Ronald and Norma Hale told police they were unaware that Audrey still had guns
“At home she was Audrey, but when she left the house she changed. They knew about it, they just didn’t accept it.’
Neighbors on the tree-lined suburban street where the family lived for three decades said they had no idea of Hale’s apparent transition and remembered her as a “skater, tomboy type.”
“She introduced herself as Audrey a year and a half ago,” said one.
“I treated her like a woman and she didn’t correct me. She seemed artistic, quiet and well-mannered.’
Police now say Hale planned to carry out more attacks, including against her own family.
“We talked to the father and the mother. We searched the house and found two more guns there and some more cards, related to thinking about other incidents.
“We’re confident there would be other targets, including family members, and one of the malls here in Nashville, but that just didn’t happen,” said chief John Drake. CBS this morning.
Posing sweetly with a bow in her hair, Audrey Hale was the image of innocence in her eight-year-old yearbook photo from The Covenant School.
Audrey was transitioning to become Aiden. Pictured above with mother Norma and brother Scott
Norma proudly posted on Facebook about Audrey’s love for God. This 2019 post describes lending a ‘devotionary book’ to her
In 2017, Audrey was enrolled at Nossi Art College and thriving
Hale with her older brother Scott, who has not commented on the shooting. Neighbors say Hale was “sweet” and “quiet.”
Audrey in a more recent LinkedIn photo. The shooter left behind a manifesto describing her plans
Twenty years later, after being rejected by her Christian family when she came out as gay to them, Hale had become a murderer.
Yesterday she killed three innocent children and three staff members at the school where her picture was taken as a child.
It’s unclear why she targeted that facility.
Police also say she planned to attack a mall and relatives, but was shot dead at Covenant before she could kill any more.
Little is known about how Hale transformed from the “sweet” girl described by neighbors, into a murderous gunman with two guns and a pistol, who wrote a murder manifesto and even drew a cartoon about how she planned to attack.
Police say she was being treated for an “emotional disorder” and her parents believed she was out of guns.
They knew she had one firearm at one time, but believed she had sold it.
In reality, Audrey was stocking up on her arsenal. She visited five different stores and bought a total of seven guns.
Pictured: Brookdale Senior Living home community members lay flowers at the main entrance of Nashville’s Covenant Presbyterian Church