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Manifesto of Nashville school shooter finally released, becomes clear ‘why they tried to keep it closed’

September 3, 2024 | | Print Article

The full release of “The Nashville Manifesto” prompted less than surprised reactions as the contents led to calls for “a serious national discussion about trans extremism.”

Despite efforts to memory hole the March 27, 2023 tragedy that saw three nine-year-old children and three adult staff killed at Nashville, Tennessee’s Christian Covenant School, on Tuesday The Tennessee Star made the entire journal available for download.

As the documents were released, commentator Steven Crowder, whose “Louder with Crowder” team had been among those pushing back against the stonewalling for information, shared some of the 90 pages from the writings and highlighted messages that read; “If God won’t give me a boy body in heaven then Jesus is a f*ggot,” “I can’t be happy. I am meant to die,” “No brown girls, no love” and “Brown love is the most beautiful kind.”

Along with the pages that had repeatedly been referred to as a “manifesto” of Audrey Hale, the 28-year-old female killer who identified as a male named Aiden, The Star made note of additional journals obtained by Metro Nashville Police Department officers during an authorized search of the home she lived in with her parents. Alongside FBI and ATF agents, MNPD had seized 20 journals that contained roughly 1,000 pages penned between 2007 and 2022.

“We have documented a massive failure of the mental health system as a root cause of Hale’s reprehensible actions,” said The Star Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy in a statement Tuesday.

The newspaper had made note of entries referencing her therapist and police documents that revealed that “she was twice evaluated for commitment.”

At least one entry was referred to as a “political rant” by The Star as, a month prior to the murders, Hale spoke out about the government’s treatment of “disabled people, gun owners, and transgender people.”

“So now [because] of you, I wish death on myself cause of the pure hatred of my female gender…with no rights, anyone’s country is a s***** dictatorship,” wrote the killer who was shot dead by the police the day she attacked the school.

Among numerous writings that included fantasies about sex, her final entry had the message: “There were several times I could have been caught, especially back in the summer of 2021.”

The CEO of Star News Digital Media’s legal battle to see the documents released had included a threat of jail time that was ultimately reversed when Judge I’Ashea Myles had, according to Leahy, “changed the purpose of the hearing — claiming it was for her to determine ‘the landscape’ of the case — and again refused to identify my counsel the court order she thought I might be violating.”

Leahy’s statement noted, “Our reporting on the Covenant Killer investigation has served the public interest.”

“We legally obtained writings by Audrey Elizabeth Hale, MNPD investigation documents, and MNPD crime scene photos from a source familiar with the MNPD investigation in June 2024. These documents and photos have helped us inform the public about the underlying reasons for this heinous attack, and have helped drive the public discussion of what should be done to prevent such acts of violence in the future,” he said.

To his point, commentator Rogan O’Handley was among those who took to X shortly after the writings were published and shared Crowder’s post with the caption, “The Nashville Trans Terrorist manifesto has been released in full…Spoiler alert: This lady was a foot soldier for the radical trans movement and targeted white Christian children to murder…We need to have a serious national discussion about trans extremism…Children are dying.”

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