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Nashville Christian school killer Audrey Hale, a transgender artist who gunned down three 9-year-olds and three adults last week, kept journals on other school shootings under her bed – which were seized along with a trove of documents and electronic devices, court filings reveal.
The 28-year-old apparently left behind a suicide note on a desk under one of several laptops police recovered, near a list of passwords. They also found two “memoirs,” a 12-gauge Mossberg 590 and a 20-gauge Winchester Model 1200. One of them had been sawed off, police said previously.
Hale also kept notes on firearms training, according to the warrant.
But whatever that training involved, heroic Nashville police officers intercepted the active shooter within minutes of rushing into the Covenant School, a private school that educates children from preschool through sixth grade.
NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SHOOTING TIMELINE: AUDREY HALE’S 14 MINUTES OF MAYHEM
Images of Audrey Hale’s Nashville home that were included in the police department’s application for a search warrant. Photos from after the raid show it boarded up. (Davidson County Criminal Court)
Moments later, bodycam video showed Hale crumpled on the floor near a window where she had been perched and fired at police officers outside.
Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives identified Hale with facial recognition technology, the search warrant reveals.
The technology quickly gave them a name and driver’s license, which along with the registration of the Honda Fit parked outside, led investigators to Hale’s parents’ house in Nashville. In addition to the passwords on a sticky note, they seized a cache of electronics there, including six laptops, seven cellphones, a tablet and 11 computer drives.
Read the warrant inventory (Mobile users go here)
They also found 20 journals throughout the basement, 14 videos and a Tennessee man’s driver’s license in a bookcase along with photographs of the Covenant School,…
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