The Tennessee Star has obtained dozens of handwritten pages authored by Audrey Elizabeth Hale, who committed the horrific Covenant School shooting on March 27, 2023.
The Star reviewed nearly four dozen images of notebook pages written by Hale that were recovered from the vehicle she drove to the Covenant School which were obtained from a source familiar with the Covenant investigation.
One of the pages reviewed by The Star is a journal or diary entry, written by Hale, that is dated February 20, 2023, or just 35 days before Hale committed the attack.
In the highly political entry, Hale makes a series of claims about the rights afforded to gun owners, transgender people and non-binary people in the United States.
Biologically a female, Hale identified as a transgender man at the time of her devastating attack on The Covenant School, which claimed the lives of three 9-year-old students and three faculty members.
“So now in America, it makes one a criminal to have a gun or, be transgender, or non-binary,” wrote Hale. She added, “God I hate those s***head politicians.”
After warning about rights for the disabled, Hale wrote, “Disabled have rights, civil races have rights, LGBTQ have rights, gun owners have rights.”
Hale’s rant did not appear to overtly reference a major political party, and at one point warned against the United States curtailing its Second Amendment in an effort to become like the United Kingdom or Europe, but closed with remarks expressing frustration over her gender identity.
“So now [because] of you, I wish death on myself cause of the pure hatred of my female gender,” Hale declared. She added, “with no rights, anyone’s country is a s***** dictatorship.”
On the next page, Hale left a two-sentence entry that could indicate she previously planned to commit her attack on the Covenant School on Friday, February 17, 2023.
“Covenant was closed yesterday.” Hale wrote in an entry that appears to be dated February 18, “I guess it was [because] of the weather.”
There is no public information indicating Covenant School was closed on that date, but Metro Nashville Public Schools students did not attend classes the following Monday.
Both Michael Patrick Leahy, who is the editor-in-chief of The Star, and Star News Digital Media, Inc., which owns and operates The Star, are plaintiffs in separate lawsuits which seek to compel both the FBI and the Metro Nashville Police Department to release the written materials left by Hale.
Among Hale’s handwritten documents obtained by The Star is at least one of the pages that was previously leaked and published in November 2023. Sometimes called part of a manifesto, those pages have since been confirmed authentic by The Star, MNPD, and other sources who have viewed Hale’s full writings.
On Wednesday, The Star published the memo sent by the FBI’s Behavioral Threat Assessment Center (BTAC), which is the home of the agency’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, addressed to MNPD Chief John Drake, which”strongly” urged the department not to release “legacy tokens” left by Hale.
According to an FBI definition, “legacy tokens” likely include all of Hale’s written materials, including those that have been called a manifesto.
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Tom Pappert is the lead reporter for The Tennessee Star, and also reports for The Pennsylvania Daily Star and The Arizona Sun Times. Follow Tom on X/Twitter. Email tips to [email protected].
I”‘m no shrink but I would think if you’re born a female and then start pretending you’re a man, that would be proof of some mental issues.
I remember we used to have mental hospitals for people like this, what happened to them?
I was also hoping for a link to the actual images. Trying to piece it together across 20 articles day by day is mildly frustrating.
Back in 2012 the APA altered its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to delist being transgender as a mental disorder. This is an amplification of the downward spiral which began back in 1973 when the APA issued a resolution stating that homosexuality was not a mental illness.
These female-to-male trannies can’t seem to get it through their heads that when you choose to be a man, you get ALL of the conditions that being a man entails. This includes “nobody noticing you” and “nobody caring” about you. This is just part of the male experience. you would THINK that whomever is encouraging this “decision” would let them know. Welcome to being a man: you are now generic and disposable.
I was hoping for a link to the actual documents
Steve Allen, I can answer your question.
Yes, transgenderism is a sign or symptom of mental illness.
Is there really any question that this person had serious psychological issues. Which leads to the question; is transgenderism a sign or symptom of mental illness.