Posted on 04/04/2025 12:13:39 PM PDT by lightman
After two years of "meticulous" detective work, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD) is closing its investigation into the Covenant School mass shooting on March 27, 2023, the agency's Chief John Drake announced Wednesday.
Upon closure of the case, the MNPD's Homicide Unit has released a 48-page final report detailing the probe's findings.
Among them, on a page titled "What She Didn't Leave Behind," the police agency disputes that the "transgender"-identified shooter, Audrey "Aiden" Hale, had ever left a manifesto divulging her motive.
This manifesto in question was the subject of several public records requests and ensuing litigation on multiple fronts over its release. After authorities refused to make the manifesto publicly available, parts of it were leaked, including excerpts of Hale's writings showing she wanted to shoot white children in particular.
By definition, the MNPD asserts, a manifesto is "a mission statement or other document written and disseminated by an individual or group to enumerate or expound upon the guiding principles and beliefs that inform their actions." Regardless of length, a manifesto is "a single document that outlines all the factors, intentions, and objectives of an individual act or a series of actions," according to the MNPD.
"In this case, a manifesto didn't exist," the MNPD concludes. "Hale never left behind a single document explaining why she committed the attack, why she specifically targeted The Covenant, and what she hoped to gain, if anything, with the attack."
What did exist, per the MNPD, was simply "a series of notebooks, art composition books, and media files" documenting Hale's planning and preparation, the events in Hale's life that motivated her to carry out the mass murder, and her hopes related to the outcome of the attack.
"No single document, notebook, or digital device contains the answer to those questions," the MNPD says. "The answer is scattered throughout all the assembled material, which required a careful review of the material to understand Hale's motive."
According to the MNPD, she chose the Covenant School not for racial, religious, or economic reasons, given the affluent area. "It is certainly true she raged over these topics at times in her writings," the MNPD says. "But none of those motives impacted her decision to attack The Covenant."
"Kill those kids!!! [T]hose crackers going to fancy private schools with those fancy khakis + sports backpacks w/ their daddies mustangs + convertibles," Hale wrote on February 3, 2023, more than a month before the mass murder. "[F]**k you little s**ts. I wish to shoot you weak a** d**ks w/ your mop yellow hair. Wanna kill all you little crackers!!! Bunch of little f****ts w/ your white privilege. [F]**k you f****ts."
In other entries, Hale wrote about wanting "a boy body in heaven" and craving "brown love."
Initially, in the lead-up to her shooting spree, Hale had intended to target Creswell Middle, a black-majority magnet school for the arts, which she also attended and where she was bullied for being "a rich white girl." But by March 2020, Hale became concerned about the racial demographics of the school since the student body is predominantly black. Hale was worried she might be "branded as a racist" for committing a massacre there, so she switched to targeting the Covenant School instead.
Though investigators never officially classified the attack as a hate crime, the MNPD found Hale had believed that followers of the Christian faith were "meek and afraid," hence why she set her sights on the private Christian elementary school, "a soft target." She was further emboldened by the fact that the students were "too young to effectively fight back or flee far," the MNPD says. Moreover, the age of the children and the school's Christian affiliation would ensure she'd attain infamy.
As for Hale's motive, MNPD suspects that she solely sought "notoriety" by leaving behind years of material, including 16 composition notebooks containing nearly 1,300 pages of content, to be discovered and analyzed.
"There have been numerous theories proposed by parties outside the investigation as to why Hale committed the attack," the MNPD laments. Some of those speculations have been based on snippets of Hale's writings leaked to the media, while others were "wildly posited for no other reason than to elicit controversy or attention," according to the MNPD, adding that those theories can "easily be debunked" by the trove of material handwritten by her.
Flood the zone tactic of misinformation.
It is probably locked up in a warehouse somewhere with the Lost Ark and Hunter Bidenskyyy's lap top.
Bkmrk
Is this a Babylon Bee article?
The polices were given their orders on how to respond.
Must be in accordance with the liberal narrative about mentally ill deviants
Deep state actors pulling the strings again
"Lots of separate documents saying why, but not a single one. See? Not a manifesto." ~ the morons of the MNPD.
She was a cowardly little attention whore. That’s the motive.
The Nashville Mayor’s wife is the main driver of the cover-up.
She was affiliated with the transitioning enterprise at Vanderbilt Hospital.
The Nashville Police Department hierarchy is carrying the Mayor’s water.
Among them, on a page titled "What She Didn't Leave Behind," the police agency disputes that the "transgender"-identified shooter, Audrey "Aiden" Hale, had ever left a manifesto divulging her motive.
Lying even after the truth has been told. I suspect the MNPD was told to report this garbage, so they did as they were ordered. Question is... who told them to lie?
The real word has already gotten out, so this report means less than nothing.
Also, this does NOT diminish the excellent police work done that day to take out the shooter. The cops there were boss!
Have you noticed that the only time the MSM uses a singular pronoun it is when it is reporting on a trans case, and it’s always the wrong gender?
BUMP
MNPD says. “But none of those motives impacted her decision to attack The Covenant.”
Wow. They are mind readers, aren’t they, if they can decipher motive from a pile of hate messages and determine, “NOPE, nothing to see here.”
She was fine with killing a lot of innocent people but didn’t want to branded as a racist? If that makes sense to you, you should probably talk to somebody.
“ Hale never left behind a single document explaining why she committed the attack, why she specifically targeted The Covenant, and what she hoped to gain”
So silly. Few murderers do. Some do. Most don’t. That’s why cops investigate. They shouldn’t cover up. Release all her writings and let the true crime podcasters do their thing.
Bttt.
5.56mm
So if I change the definition then something that isnt a vaccine becomes a vaccine.
If I invent a new definition of a manifesto then nothing I dont want to release is ever a manifesto.
If this money shouldnt count as income then I shouldnt have to...
PMP!PMPM!
Hello? Aaaah!
You have the right to remain silent. C-C-C-C-C-K!
Guilty! Bang! Slam!
($4!+)
Remember when we were told that the writings were “a guidebook to total destruction”, and that they were FAR too dangerous to be released?
I do, and having read some of them I wonder what they saw that we didn’t, as that’s not how I would describe ANY of this.
This sounds like the dead parrot sketch from Monty python. - it's a manifesto! No it's not, yes it is, it says right there why she did it! Does not, yes it does, ok it does but she didn't say it was a manifesto!! She wasn't " pining for the fjords was she!?
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