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Nashville Christian school shooter’s clothes covered in mysterious notes, numbers when she opened fire

July 27, 2023 | | Print Article

The clothes of Nashville Christian school shooter Audrey Hale were covered in mysterious “handwritten words, drawings and numbers,” according to a recently released autopsy report.

As BizPac Review reported, on March 27, 28-year-old Hale, who identified as transgender, entered The Covenant School, a Christian elementary school in Nashville, and gunned down three 9-year-old children and three staff members.

Upon raiding her home, authorities recovered ammo, weapons, several journals, a dozen school yearbooks, several writings, and a suicide note.

Four months later, the autopsy report reveals, in addition to the notes on her clothing, Hale carried a knife inscribed with her preferred name, “Aiden,” and was wearing an orange plastic anklet with the number 508507 etched on it, the Daily Mail reports.

It is unclear what was written on her clothes. No drugs or alcohol were reportedly detected in Hale’s system.

In mid-May, a judge read Hale’s as-yet-unreleased, unredacted manifesto after the National Association of Police and former Trump administration official Stephen Miller’s law firm, America First Legal, filed lawsuits to access the disturbed woman’s writings.

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“A deranged transgender psychopath took six innocent lives and struck at the heart of a tight-knit community,” America First Legal vice president and general counsel Gene Hamilton said in a statement at the time. “While we grieve for the families and pray for God’s peace, righteousness, and perfect justice to prevail upon all affected by this horrible situation, the fact remains that the public has a right to see these documents.”

“This is not the time for gamesmanship for ideological reasons—and we will fight to help our client obtain the documents he requested and is entitled to under the law,” Hamilton added.

In June, Hale’s parents transferred ownership of their daughter’s manifesto to the families of Covenant School students in a bid to stop its release, the New York Post reported.

“One of the lawyers for the parents introduced a criminal defense lawyer who says that he represents the parents of the shooter,” said National Police Association attorney Doug Pierce at the time. “He said that the shooter died without having a will and therefore has no other heirs, so … he says [the writings] belong to the parents, and the parents are going to assign their interest in those writings to the school.”

However, argued Pierce, “If public officials take them into custody as part of their duties, which is what happened here when police took them, they become part of the public record.”

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“[I]n n an unprecedented move, Chancery Court Judge I’Ashea Myles ruled 100 of The Covenant School’s 112 families had a right to intervene in the litigation, and said she would consider arguments from the families’ camp,” The Post reported, adding, “The Covenant School and Covenant Presbyterian Church have also been allowed to weigh in.”

The groups seeking access to the documents filed an appeal, “However, the Metro Nashville Police Department remains in control of the manifesto, regardless of who technically owns the file,” The Post noted. “And police have said Hale’s writings are part of an ongoing investigation, which could take another year.”

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