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FBI Records Reveal Shooter's Motives in Covenant School Attack

12/30/2025

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Audrey Elizabeth Hale, the Covenant School shooter in Nashville, is the subject of newly released FBI records detailing motives.
The records contain over 100 pages of Hale's writings describing planning for the attack and a "suicide mission" text to a friend, with investigators not releasing the full manifesto.
The March 27, 2023 attack at the Covenant School killed six people, and Hale used federal grant money to buy firearms.

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Story summary

Audrey Elizabeth Hale, the Covenant School shooter in Nashville, is the subject of newly released FBI records detailing motives.
The records contain over 100 pages of Hale's writings describing planning for the attack and a "suicide mission" text to a friend, with investigators not releasing the full manifesto.
The March 27, 2023 attack at the Covenant School killed six people, and Hale used federal grant money to buy firearms.