Audrey Hale: Suicide note, ammunition, shotgun among 47 items recovered from Nashville shooter's home
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE: A suicide note and other evidence were recovered in a new search conducted by investigators at Audrey Hale's residence. On Monday, April 3, the Metro Nashville Police officers who searched the Nashville school shooter's home found the note, a shotgun, and ammunition among 47 items discovered.
Notably, Hale's journals, laptops, and cell phones were other items recovered from her home she shared with her parents Ronald and Norma Hale. The 28-year-old who recently began using he/him pronouns fatally shot three staffers and three children on March 27 at the Covenant private elementary school, reported NY Post.
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A day before the note and ammunition were recovered, police stated that the mass shooter left behind several writings and also revealed that he had "considered the actions of other mass murder." On Monday, the MNPD said, "In the collective writings by Hale found in her vehicle in the school parking lot, and others later found in the bedroom of her home, she documented, in journals, her planning over a period of months to commit mass murder at the Covenant School."
Investigators also found detailed maps and a manifesto by Hale in connection to the killing spree. John Drake, the Metro Nashville Police Chief said that her vehicle was found left in the school's parking lot.
Audrey Hale's parents were unaware she owned guns
Previously, Hale's parents claimed that they thought their trans daughter sold her guns as they did not approve of weapons. From five local stores, she allegedly made a legal purchase of the different weapons which also included the three guns - a handgun and two rifles and the handgun she used during the 14-minute tragic shooting where he fired 152 rounds, according to the NY Post.
Police also revealed that Hale who targeted the school had planned the mass murder months before the incident. Hale was ultimately fatally shot by officers Michael Collazo and Rex Engelbert during the horrifying shooting.
The shooting victims identified by police were the school headmistress Katherine Koonce, 60, substitute teacher, Cyntia Peak, and custodian, Mike Hill, both 61, and three nine-year-old children namely Hallie Scruggs, Evelyn Dieckhaus, and William Kinney. Hale's "writings remain under careful review by the MNPD and the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit based in Quantico, Virginia," as per the department's statement.