[Update] Nashville School Transgender Shooter's Chilling 'Suicide Note' To Friend
Audrey Hale(a.k.a. Aiden) revealed her murderous intentions to her friend before she shot and killed 6 people at the The Covenant School in Nashville.
In her messages on Instagram on Monday, at 9:57 a.m local time, to Averianna Patton, her former middle school basketball teammate, Hale reportedly wrote what amounts to a chilling “suicide note.”
“So basically that post I made on here about you, that was basically a suicide note," she wrote. "I’m planning to die today.”
“THIS IS NOT A JOKE!!!” Hale continued. “You’ll probably hear about me on the news after I die.”
She added: “This is my last goodbye. I love you … See you again in another life.” She signed the missive “Audrey (Aiden).”
Patton replied: “Audrey! You have so much more life to live. I pray God keeps and covers you.”
In response, Hale wrote: “I know but I don’t want to live. I’m so sorry. I’m not trying to upset you or get attention. I just need to die. I wanted to tell you first because you are the most beautiful person I’ve ever seen and known all my life.”
She added: “My family doesn’t know what I’m about to do. One day this will make more sense. I’ve left more than enough evidence behind. But something bad is about to happen.”
Nashville Shooting Footage Released By Police, As Calls Grow To Make The Transgender Shooter's Manifesto, Public
Police released the footage showing Hale drive to the Christian school, shot her way through the glass door before searching for and killing 3 adults and 3 children.
Another footage also shows the moment she was shot and killed by responding police officers.
Police reportedly found where Hale hid a cache of seven guns from her parents, during a search at their home. The transgender extremist brought three of the deadly weapons -- two assault rifles and a handgun -- to her rampage at The Covenant School.
A manifesto written by Hale in which she apparently stated her motive, has yet to be released by police. Critics online say her radical anti-Christian woke ideology may be behind the reason for the authorities' reluctance to release the manifesto.
Critics online also called out mainstream media for their apparent lack of curiosity in Hale's manifesto, arguing that many reporters and talking heads aid and abet transgender extremism and activists who call for violence against conservatives.
Far-left media outlets like CBS and New York Times were slammed on social media Tuesday, over there obsession with appeasing LGBTQ activists who claimed that Hale is being 'misgendered' in news reports.
"Update: Police identified the suspect as a 28-year-old Audrey Hale, who they shot and killed at the scene. CBS News is still working to confirm Hale's gender identity," the outlet tweeted Tuesday, several hours after authorities already confirmed the deceased shooter is a woman.
Some conservative states in America like Tennessee, have passed laws against transgender surgery or genital mutilation of minors, the so-called 'gender-affirming care' pushed by LGBTQ activists and promoted by woke corporations and the media.
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Audrey Elizabeth Hale, 28, reportedly killed 6 people Monday, at The Covenant School, a private Presbyterian Christian institution for students up to 6th grade, in Nashville, Tennessee. Apparently the radical transgender shooter who identifies as a man, entered the building through a side door and fired shots before moving to the second floor. She was then confronted by responding police officers.
Nashville police say officers engaged with and killed the shooter who was armed with two AR-style weapons, including a rifle and pistol, and a handgun,. Investigators are searching a home connected to her. Police Chief John Drake said Hale possibly prepared for the shooting, including having written a manifesto.
"We have also determined that there were maps drawn of the school in detail of surveillance entry points. At one point she was a student at that school," Drake said at a press conference. "There was a vehicle nearby that gave us a clue as to who she was."
Officials at the local medical center say three young students were transported to Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt with gunshot wounds. All three were pronounced dead after arrival. Three more adults were also pronounced dead following the attack -- all three were staff at the school.
Hale's victims include: Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all age 9, Cynthia Peak, 61, head of school at Covenant, Katherine Koonce, 60, and 61-year-old Mike Hill. One reported injury following the attack was an officer who suffered a glass wound to his hand.
The Metro Nashville PD confirmed that the school was already working on reunifying parents and children a safe distance away from the Burton Hills Blvd the school is on.
"An active shooter event has taken place at Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, on Burton Hills Dr. The shooter was engaged by MNPD and is dead. Student reunification with parents is at Woodmont Baptist Church, 2100 Woodmont Blvd.," the department wrote in a statement.
Nashville Mayor John Cooper said in a statement: "In a tragic morning, Nashville joined the dreaded, long list of communities to experience a school shooting. My heart goes out to the families of the victims. Our entire city stands with you. As facts continue to emerge, I thank our first responders and medical professionals."
United States senators from Tennessee, Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty, both released statements mourning the tragedy and praising law enforcement.
"Devastated and heartbroken about the tragic news at Covenant School," Hagerty tweeted Monday. "I'm grateful to law enforcement and first responders for their heroic actions. I am monitoring the situation closely, and my office is in contact with local officials & available to anyone needing assistance."
"Chuck & I are heartbroken to hear about the shooting at Covenant School in Nashville. My office is in contact with federal, state, & local officials, & we stand ready to assist," Blackburn wrote. "Thank you to the first responders working on site. Please join us in prayer for those affected."
President Joe Biden was slammed online after his remarks to the press in the East Room of the White, on Monday's shooting. He started by casually joking about chocolate chip ice cream with the audience, and politicized the incident.
“We know there are a number of people who did not make it, including children.” Biden said. “We have to [do] more to stop gun violence. It’s ripping our communities apart, ripping at the very soul of the nation. We have to do more to protect our schools, so they aren’t turned into prison[s]. The shooter, in this situation, reportedly had two ‘assault weapons’ and a pistol, two AK-47s.”
He added, “I call on Congress again to pass my ‘assault weapons’ ban. It’s about time that we begin to make more progress.”
Monday's incident was one of several recent shootings involving radical transgender extremists, including the Colorado Springs shooter who identified as non binary; the Denver shooter and the Aberdeen shooter identified all of whom identified as transgender.
Critics online point out that while far-left LGBTQ+ activists ratchet up their scaremongering tactics over potential threats faced by transgender people, it seems that the ones being radicalized are the transpeople themselves.
"One thing is VERY clear: the modern trans movement is radicalizing activists into terrorists," podcaster Benny Johnson tweeted.
Conservative firebrand and commentator Candace Owens tweeted: "Transgenderism is a mental illness. Keep your children away from transgendered individuals and their parents. People that support and encourage this are monsters and should similarly be kept away from children."
"The question is why this culture is producing so many people who want to carry out attacks like this" Daily Wire host Matt Walsh wondered on Twitter. "Take the guns and you'll still have a country infested with homicidal sociopaths. Where are they coming from? What is creating them? These are the questions we should be asking."
WATCH police press conference on the Nashville school shooting