Transgender Covenant School Killer Planned Attack for Years, Final Police Report Says

Audrey Hale, whose mass shooting at the Christian campus in Tennessee left six victims dead in March 2023, was seeking ‘notoriety,’ police said.

Audrey Hale points a gun inside the Covenant School in Nashville, Tenn., on March 27, 2023. Nashville Police Department via The Epoch Times

The transgender shooter in a mass killing in 2023 at a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, was a school alum motivated by a quest for notoriety, authorities have concluded, according to a final police report. Three children and three adults died in the attack before police shot the killer.

Nashville Police said that Audrey Hale, 28, left behind notebooks, art books, and documents about her plot to attack the Covenant School. Hale, a female, was in part inspired by the 1999 Columbine mass shooting, according to the report.