Nashville School Shooting victims - Photo by Mark Zaleski / The Tennessean
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) – The transgender school shooter in Nashville had a fierce loathing for “little c*******” and “white privilege,” according to her leaked manifesto.
According to The Post Millennial, the three-page handwritten letter, which was first discovered and made public by the right-wing YouTube program Louder with Crowder, reveals that Audrey “Aiden” Hale, 28, carefully planned her final moments as well as the mass shooting at The Covenant School on March 27. Before the police shot and killed Hale, three small children and three members of the school staff had perished.
The manifesto is written in a spiral notebook with different ideas and heavily racial language jotted down. On one sheet, Hale drew a pistol and a target reticle and scribbled the words “DEATH DAY” along with the date “3/27/23.”
Several news sources have reported that both Google and Meta (Facebook) have removed people’s ability to share the stories or images of the manifesto, despite no claims or evidence that the pages below are not authentic.
Nashville’s Fox 17 “confirmed through a source” that these photos, obtained and released by Steven Crowder on Monday morning, “are authentic.”
🚨 BREAKING: Nashville School Covenant Shooter Audrey Hale’s “DEATH DAY” Manifesto Targeted “Cr*ckers” with “white privlages”
“wanna kill all you little cr*ckers”
“I hope I have a high death count”
"I'm ready…I hope my victims aren't."
"Ready to die."#NashvilleManifesto pic.twitter.com/89Ie6TlgRf
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) November 6, 2023
“The day has finally come!” Hale continued. “I can’t believe it’s here. Don’t know how I was able to get this far, but here I am. I’m a little nervous but excited too. I have been excited for the past two weeks. There were several times I could have been caught, especially back in the summer of 2021.”
Hale further stated that she hated kids who went to “fancy private schools with those fancy khakis + sports backpacks w/ their daddies mustangs + convertibles.”
According to a search warrant, officials found 20 notebooks, five computers, a suicide note, and other notes written by Hale during a search of the home she lived in with her parents. They also found two memoirs, five Covenant School yearbooks, and seven cell phones.
Over the summer, local and federal authorities with access to the manifesto refused to make its contents public, despite most mass shooters’ manifestos going public within hours following an attack if one was made.
“As this matter is being addressed by the courts, the FBI will not be commenting on the reported documents,” FBI Memphis Field Office Public Affairs officer Elizabeth Clement-Webb wrote in an email to the Daily Wire’s Gregg Re.
Hale’s family also released a statement through their attorney on the leak saying, “I represent Mr. Ron and Mrs. Norma Hale. We have never seen a manifesto at any time. We’re not in a position to authenticate these pieces of paper. We have absolutely not released anything, but we certainly did not release this. It’s inappropriate for me to make any further comment about it.”
Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell said in a statement that the city has opened an investigation into how the leak happened, which all but confirms the authenticity of the pages, according to WSMV. “I have directed Wally Dietz, Metro’s Law Director, to initiate an investigation into how these images could have been released. That investigation may involve local, state, and federal authorities. I am deeply concerned with the safety, security, and well-being of the Covenant families and all Nashvillians who are grieving.”
Nashville police stated back in August that the manifesto was in the process of being released, telling Fox News Digital, “The investigation has progressed to the point where the Covenant shooter’s writings are now being reviewed for public release. This process is currently underway.”
Back in March, FBI officials also stated that they would release the manifesto to the public after a highly skilled team of criminal profilers could analyze it. However, it has been nearly 8 months since that press release, and no follow-up from the unit was ever given.
LGBTQ organizations also attempted to prevent the manifesto from being made public in the spring, citing concerns that it could harm those who identify as trans and encourage imitation killings.
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