How the Covenant Shooter Hid a Deadly Plan
The 28-year-old who gunned down three third graders and three staff members at The Covenant School in Nashville “used a great deal of manipulation” to conceal the extent of her mounting mental health struggles from her parents and therapists for years while planning a mass shooting, a police investigative report said.
Bent on infamy and obsessed with mass killings and school shootings, Audrey Hale extensively chronicled her grievances against her parents and others she blamed for her fraught life as she stocked up on firearms and meticulously prepared for the March 27, 2023, massacre, according to the 48-page report released Wednesday.
“She used a great deal of manipulation to convince those she interacted with she wasn’t a threat to anyone, including herself,” said the report, which described Hale as female though the killer “identified as a male and used he/him as preferred pronouns” on social media.