The transgender Covenant School shooter wrote a list of the “advantages” and “disadvantages” of attacking another Nashville school she attended — but ultimately backed out because the student body was mostly black, according to twisted journal entries released by the FBI this week.
Audrey Hale, who killed six people before at the Christian elementary school in 2023, was considering carrying out the carnage at I.T. Creswell Middle School, according to an entry penned sometime in 2021, but was concerned she would “influence rasist [sic] white shooters.”
“[Predominantly] black school (black people I love),” Hale wrote the first among the “disadvantages” of attacking the middle school, which she attended between 5th and 8th grades and listed as her “1st choice” for her planned massacre.
Her second reason for not attacking that school was because “Black community in despair [and] suffering (I don’t want to cause that) = don’t want to harm them = dread.”
“Black friends [and] black community will hate me,” she listed as her third reason.
She also wrote she was worried that murdering black students would “likely to influence rasist [sic] white shooters in future.”
Hale ultimately chose the Covenant School as her target, listing among its “advantages” that it’s a “predominantly white school” because “white people I hate!”
She also noted that it’s a Christian school — underlining for emphasis that she “hates religion.”
The cold-blooded killer also mentioned that she was familiar with the layout of the school, which she attended from Kindergarten to 4th grade.
Hale’s parents suggested in an interview with police after the shooting that Hale became interested in black culture during her time at Creswell Middle School, where she played basketball on the mostly black team as a student, according to audio obtained by conservative outlet the Tennessee Star.
“I think, somehow, maybe in her mind — you know, she felt because of being in this school, and on this athletic team, and these girls, you know, liked her and were on the team… she felt accepted,” the killer’s mother told detectives.
Hale, a woman who identified as male, was 28 years old when she stormed into the Covenant School with a 9mm carbine on March 27, 2023 and gunned down three students and three adults.
She was shot dead by Nashville police within 15 minutes of opening fire.
