NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A new report released Wednesday shines more light on the person who killed three 9-year-olds and three adults at a private Nashville Christian elementary school in 2023.
According to the nearly 50-page report, Audrey Hale’s initial fascination with mass shootings and school shooters ballooned into planning his own type of attack. For nearly five years, Hale scoped and researched locations where he could unleash terror, and he stocked up on firearms.
All the while, Hale’s parents and therapists became increasingly concerned, causing Hale to become more manipulative. He even considered killing his mother so she couldn’t upend his mass shooting plan.
Hale sometimes used male pronouns and police say Hale identified as male but the report uses female pronouns due to a Tennessee law definition of “sex” as “determined by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth.”
Here is a timeline of what police have confirmed: