Sydney Sims: Nashville shooter Audrey Hale was allegedly grieving death of partner who died in 2022
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE: The latest reports on Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale argue that the transgender attacker may have been mourning the death of her alleged lover. Both were on the same basketball team in school, but she died in a vehicle accident in 2022. One of the classmates who knew both of them said that Hale had been deeply impacted by the death of Sydney Sims. The 28-year-old school shooter, who was born biologically female identifies as transgender and preferred he/him pronouns, was reportedly heartbroken after her sudden demise.
Samira Hardcastle also claimed that “After Sydney’s tragic death, Audrey was really heartbroken over it … I just feel like she took it differently than some of us did. She was still posting about Sydney almost daily. What I knew of her was more admiring [Sydney]. Maybe even infatuation. That’s specifically who she really, really looked up to.” When she was asked about the time when she last saw Hale, Hardcastle told NY Post that they both met to tape together for their friend Avieranna Patton’s radio show. “I don’t think she was with anyone. She was just kind of by herself,” said Hardcastle before adding, “I don’t think that they were very close but I think Audrey looked up to [her] like she looked up to Sydney. But I don’t know that it was ever, like, a two-way thing.”
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'This is my last goodbye'
It was Patton whom he contacted in the minutes before his shooting spree. In his message the shooter wrote, “This is my last goodbye. I love you … See you again in another life.”In his message, he called Patton “the most beautiful person I’ve ever seen and known all my life,” and 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.”
'She had been openly grieving'
Maria Colomy, an ex-instructor at the Nossi College of Art & Design in Nashville, who used to be Hale’s teacher as well, said his transition began just at the time when he was grieving Sims’death. “She had been openly grieving about that on social media, and during the grieving is when she announced that she wanted to be addressed as a male,” reports New York Times.