Transgender shooter’s manifesto WILL be released to the public as soon as FBI has analyzed it
The manifesto for the pre-kill killing of Audrey Hale, the Nashville school shooter, will be released to the public after the FBI’s criminal profiling team analyzes its contents.
According to the New York Post, the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit is working “in conjunction” with the Nashville Police Department to complete an “in-depth analysis of certain aspects of the shooter’s life.”
Nashville Councilor Robert Swope said: ‘The manifesto will be published. It’s just a question of when. There are some incredibly brilliant psychological minds and psychological analysts who look at your whole life.
The transgender Hale, 28, left behind the manifesto as well as a detailed map of the school she once attended and apparently planned a detailed attack that killed three students and three staff members.
Linkedin image of Audrey Hale, 28, who opened fire at a Nashville school on Monday, killing six
On Monday morning, 28-year-old transgender Audrey Halle attacked the Covenant school, which she previously attended.
Swope told the Post that Hale reviewed two other potential schools, both public, as targets for her attack, before deciding that “security was too big to do what she wanted to do.”
“So he chose a private Christian school, because probably the reason is that the security is much lower,” he said.
‘I am beyond heartbroken. That this kind of evil actually exists in this world is amazing to me. I don’t know how our community gets through this,” she added.
On Monday morning, Hale attacked the Covenant school, which he previously attended, around 10 a.m.
At around 10:13 a.m., Hale opened fire at The Covenant School, shooting and killing Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all aged nine.
Substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, 61, school principal Dr. Katherine Koonce, 60, and janitor Mike Hill, 61, were also killed.
Koonce worked alongside her daughter Anna at The Covenant School, who serves as a teacher/student assistant.
Within 14 minutes, Hale was dead, as Nashville police released photos of the two officers, Rex Engelbart and Michael Collazo, who shot and killed Hale.
In a statement released Monday night, a school spokesperson said: “Our community is heartbroken.
“We are grieving a tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that tore apart our school and church.
‘We are focused on loving our students, our families, our faculty and staff and beginning the healing process.’
Nashville Councilman Robert Swope said Hale’s manifesto will be released to the public after it is reviewed by FBI experts.
A terrified girl presses her hand against the glass of a school bus window after being evacuated from The Covenant School
Audrey Hale, 28, opened fire at a Nashville school Monday, killing six
Students from The Covenant School get off a bus to meet their parents at the reunification site at Woodmont Baptist Church on Monday, March 27, 2023, in Nashville, Tennessee, following a mass shooting at their school.
Police said Hale was transgender, though they have not specified further details. She was born female, but a LinkedIn profile believed to be hers uses he/he pronouns, suggesting Hale lived as a man.
Police released this image of Hale on Monday
John Drake, the Nashville police chief, said Hale left behind a manifesto that suggested a simmering anger over being sent to a Christian school.
Hale’s mother, Norma Hale, worked as a coordinator at a local church and frequently posted about religion on Facebook.
‘The person we know as Audrey Hale, is a 28-year-old Nashville woman. We believe that she went to school in the area, at that actual school.
“There’s a belief that there was some resentment about having to go to that school,” Drake said, speaking to NBC News.
“I don’t have all the details of that yet and that’s why this incident happened.”
The six victims were three nine-year-old children and three staff members.