Police Say Nashville School Shooter Was Being Treated for ‘Emotional Disorder’ Prior to Carefully Planned Attack

‘We have a manifesto, we have some writings that we’re going over that pertain to this date, the actual incident,’ the Nashville Police chief says.

Metropolitan Nashville Police Department via AP
Audrey Elizabeth Hale points an assault-style weapon inside the Covenant School at Nashville on March 27, 2023. Metropolitan Nashville Police Department via AP

A day after the fatal shootings at the Covenant School in Nashville, police are beginning to uncover the motive of the shooter, who may have harbored resentments of the Presbyterian school prior to the carefully planned attack.

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