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Covenant shooter targeted Christian school for 'instant notoriety,' 'openly identified as lesbian': police

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The transgender-identified shooter who murdered six people at a Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, chose the school for its young, defenseless students, its Christian identity and geographic isolation, believing these factors would maximize notoriety and "time to kill," investigators say.

A report released last week by the Metro Nashville Police Department on the Covenant School massacre in March 2023 shows the now-deceased shooter, Audrey Hale — a 28-year-old woman who used "he/him" pronouns — had multiple notebooks, art sketchbooks and computer documents that detailed her attack plans.

Hale had hoped to gain publicity from the tragic shooting, the report noted, and investigators believe she was inspired by the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, as evidenced by her writings.

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