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The Tennessee Star has released all 90 pages of the “manifesto” of Audrey Hale, the trans-identified shooter who killed six people at Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee last year. The journal had remained under seal from the Metro Nashville Police Department after the FBI sent the local law enforcement agency a memo stating that it “strongly discourages” the release of so-called “legacy tokens” because of concerns that future mass shooters would “immerse themselves in and study these materials for inspiration and tactics.” Critics of the move to keep the document confidential theorized that there was an effort to hide that...

Audrey Hale, the 28-year-old transgender artist turned school shooter who killed three children and three adults at the Covenant School in Nashville last week, plotted the attack for months, police revealed Monday. Hale fired 152 shots during the attack, police said, 126 from 5.56 rifles and 26 from a 9mm handgun. Police had recovered two rifles and a pistol from the scene and several more at the suspect's home, including a sawed-off shotgun. "In the collective writings by Hale found in her vehicle in the school parking lot, and others later found in the bedroom of her home, she documented,...