Multiple Republicans in the House of Representatives are demanding the FBI release Nashville gunman Audrey Hale’s manifesto, while a councilman says she was told it is a “blueprint for utter destruction.”
It comes a week after a poll in which two-thirds of American voters said they want the Nashville police to release the manifesto — a sign of growing frustration over the investigation into the deadly attack.
Hale, who is transgender, fired 152 rounds from two assault rifles and a handgun, killing Hallie Scruggs, William Kinney, Evelyn Dieckhaus, all nine, and principal Dr. Katherine Koonce, 60, substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, 61, and chef Mike Hill were killed. , 61 on March 27.
Metro Nashville councilman Courtney Johnston said no matter when, the manifesto will not be released in its entirety, noting what is expected to be a shocking read.
“What I was told is that her manifesto was a blueprint for utter destruction, and it was so, so detailed to the level of what she had planned,” Johnston said.
Multiple Republicans in the House of Representatives are demanding the FBI release Nashville gunman Audrey Hale’s manifesto, while a councilman says she was told it’s a “blueprint for utter destruction”
“That document in the hands of the wrong person would be astronomically dangerous,” she told the New York Post.
Officers retrieved a “manifesto,” hand-drawn cards, a suicide note, 20 diaries, laptops, phones, and various writings from Hale’s home and the Honda Fit she had left in the school parking lot.
Congressman Tim Burchett, a Republican from Tennessee, was disappointed by the news.
He believes it “might tell us something about what’s going on in her mind.” I think that would answer a lot of questions.’
However, after speaking to investigators, Johnston says she doesn’t think it would be good for the rest of America to deal with the toll it has taken on them.
“Personally, I don’t want to know how deep her psychosis went… If I’m told by a senior MNPD official that it’s keeping him awake at night, I’ll defer to that person in that office that I don’t need to read that .’
Hale’s materials have been shared with the FBI’s behavior analysis unit in Quantico, Virginia, and detail Hale’s “plans to commit mass murder” at the school over a period of months, police said in a statement.
“The documents that we have, and I’ve looked at those, you know, one is a plan specifically and the other is kind of magazine-type tirades,” said David Rausch, director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
Metro Nashville councilman Courtney Johnston said no matter when, the manifesto will not be released in its entirety, noting what is expected to be a shocking read
Officers recovered a “manifesto,” hand-drawn cards, a suicide note, 20 diaries, laptops, phones, and various writings from Hale’s home and the Honda Fit she left in the school parking lot
Congressman Tim Burchett, a Republican from Tennessee, was disappointed by the news
They contain none of the “ideological phrases” found in other mass murderers’ screeds, he said, such as “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski’s 1995 35,000-word essay on the collapse of industrial society.
Burchett’s fellow Tennessee Republican House member Andy Ogles said there should be an investigation if the full manifesto is not released.
Americans want to see the screed by large margins, which many believe will reveal an agenda of violent trans extremism, and just as many are concerned that Hale’s attack will lead to more copycat attacks on Christian schools, pollsters found.
The Rasmussen Reports poll is pressuring the Nashville Police Department to release Hale’s writings, even as officials backtrack on claims she left a manifesto, saying her lyrics are just “magazine-like tirades.”
Walter Hudson, a Minnesota state representative, became the latest Republican politician to request the release of the documents, saying they could explain Hale’s murder spree at The Covenant School on the morning of March 27.
“We absolutely need to know what motivated someone to shoot and kill six people, including three nine-year-old children,” Hudson tweeted this week.
Americans want to see the screed by large margins and are concerned that Hale’s attack will lead to more copycat attacks on Christian schools
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation director David Rausch says Hale’s writings are deranged “diatribes” and don’t amount to a “manifesto”
Caitlyn Jenner, Vernon Jones, former Trump White House adviser Sebastian Gorka, and other conservatives have urged the Metro Nashville Police Department and the FBI to release the writings.
“Why is the FBI hiding the Manifesto of the Nashville transgender mass murderer?” Gorka posted on Monday.
Hale was shot and killed by police at the school within minutes of the start of the attack.
Officers have since recovered a “manifesto,” hand-drawn cards, a suicide note, 20 diaries, laptops, phones, and various writings from her home, and the Honda Fit she left in the school parking lot.
They have been shared with the FBI’s behavior analysis unit in Quantico, Virginia, and detail Hale’s “months of plans to commit mass murder” at the school, police said in a statement.
A police spokeswoman told DailyMail.com on Tuesday that the manifesto is still under “active investigation” and that she had “no date, if, when or how we would release it at this time.”
Manifesto experts have also told DailyMail.com that Hale’s writings likely relate more to her emotional issues than to the blueprint for violent transgender extremism that some had expected.
The Rasmussen Reports survey of nearly 1,000 Americans, conducted between March 30 and April 3 after Hale’s attack, found that respondents blamed the spate of mass shootings in the country for a variety of reasons.
About 42 percent say killers are driven by mental health issues, while 29 percent attribute attacks to the widespread availability of firearms. Other causes include social media (11 percent), school problems (7 percent) and family problems (6 percent).