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Police ‘strongly believe’ Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale had other targets

By
Allie Griffin
Published March 29, 2023
Updated March 29, 2023, 10:30 p.m. ET

The shooter who gunned down six victims at a private Christian school in Nashville Monday sought to inflict violence on other targets, police said Tuesday.

“We strongly believe there was going to be some other targets, including maybe family members, and one of the malls here in Nashville,” Nashville Police Chief John Drake told CBS News Tuesday. “And that just did not happen.”

The shooter, identified as 28-year-old Audrey Hale, stormed into the Covenant School Monday morning and began firing at victims indiscriminately.

Hale shot and killed three 9-year-olds and three staffers before police fatally shot her inside the building.

Following the deadly tragedy, police searched Hale’s Nashville home and recovered a stockpile of guns as well as a manifesto and “some more maps pertaining to maybe some thinking about some other incidents,” Drake told the news station.

Hale also had a map of the school, where she was once a student years ago.

Drake said the killer “had some history there” and that the attack was “targeted and planned.”

Police do not believe any of the victims were specifically targeted.

“What detectives have said so far is there’s possibly some resentment for having to go to that school,” he added.

However, investigators have not determined an official motive and have not revealed the contents of Hale’s manifesto.

Police searched Aubrey Hale's home and recovered more guns, a manifesto, and maps pertaining to possible other planned attacks the killer had in mind.
Police searched Audrey Hale’s home and recovered more guns, a manifesto, and maps pertaining to possible other planned attacks the killer had in mind. Linkedin/Audrey Hale
Footage shows suspect Audrey Hale holding an assault rifle at the Covenant School building at the Covenant Presbyterian Church, in Nashville, Tenn.
Footage shows suspect Audrey Hale holding an assault rifle at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tenn. Metropolitan Nashville Police De/AFP via Getty Images
Audrey Hale is spotted face down, lying on the ground after being shot by police officers at the Covenant School building at the Covenant Presbyterian Church, in Nashville, Tenn. on March 27, 2023.
Audrey Hale was shot by police officers in the Covenant School building. Metropolitan Nashville Police De/AFP via Getty Images

Hale was undergoing treatment for “an emotional disorder” before the shooting, Drake previously said.

A friend whom Hale messaged from the parking lot of the school right before she began the violent rampage said Hale had been suicidal in the past.

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A woman hugs a police officer at the entrance of the Covenant School at the Covenant Presbyterian Church, in Nashville, Tenn., on March 28, 2023.
A woman hugs a police officer at the entrance of the Covenant School at the Covenant Presbyterian Church. AFP via Getty Images
Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake speaks to the media following the mass shooting at Covenant School on March 27, 2023 in Nashville, Tenn.
Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake spoke to the media following the mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tenn. AP

The dead have been identified as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all 9, as well as custodian Mike Hill, 61, substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, 61, and headmistress Katherine Koonce, 60.