An active shooter event has taken place at Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, on Burton Hills Dr. The shooter was engaged by MNPD and is dead.

Nashville Police Identify Transgender Woman As Christian School Mass Shooter

An active shooter event has taken place at Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, on Burton Hills Dr. The shooter was engaged by MNPD and is dead.
An active shooter event has taken place at Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, on Burton Hills Dr. The shooter was engaged by MNPD and is dead. (Source: MNPD)

Three students and three adults died after an active shooter shot through a door and entered Covenant School, a private Christian school in Tennessee.

Police identified the victims:

  • Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9
  • Hallie Scruggs, 9
  • William Kinney 9
  • Cynthia Peak, 61
  • Katherine Koonce, 60
  • Mike Hill, 61

Police also identified the shooter as 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale, a Nashville resident. Nashville police Chief John Drake said Hale identified as transgender.

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Investigators were investigating a home connected to the shooter. Nashville police Chief John Drake said Hale possibly prepared for the shooting, including having written a manifesto. 

“We have also determined that there were maps drawn of the school in detail of surveillance entry points. At one point she was a student at that school,” he said. “There was a vehicle nearby that gave us a clue as to who she was.”

Hale was armed with two AR-style weapons, including a rifle and pistol, and a handgun. Two of the weapons may have been purchased legally in the Nashville area, Drake said. 

“My heart breaks with news of the school shooting at The Covenant School this morning,” Rev. Mark Spalding of the Diocese of Nashville said in a statement. Let us pray for the victims, their families, and the Covenant Presbyterian community.”

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