Nashville shooter Audrey Hale allegedly used federal student aid to buy guns for school attack

Newly released FBI records connected to the Covenant School shooting successful Nashville see writings made by shooter Audrey Elizabeth Hale that shed further airy connected her motivations, readying and idiosyncratic finances.

The FBI released much than 100 pages of Hale’s writings pursuing litigation, which included diary entries believed to day backmost to precocious 2021, handwritten notes outlining preparations for a schoolhouse shooting and references to weapons Hale intended to acquire.

Some of the writings database "Christian schoolhouse (hate religion)" arsenic a crushed for targeting the Covenant School.

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Covenant School shooter Audrey Hale, 28, pictured successful a driver's licence photograph and connected schoolhouse surveillance video released by Nashville police. Hale killed 3 9-year-olds and 3 adults Monday greeting astatine a backstage schoolhouse linked to a church. (Metro Nashville Police Department)

Hale, 28, carried retired the March 27, 2023, onslaught astatine the Christian simple schoolhouse she erstwhile attended, sidesplitting six radical earlier being changeable dormant by responding Metro Nashville Police Department officers.

The victims were identified arsenic schoolhouse unit members Katherine Koonce, 60; Cynthia Peak, 61; and Mike Hill, 61; on with students Hallie Scruggs, Evelyn Dieckhaus and William Kinney, each 9.

Surveillance footage released by constabulary pursuing the onslaught showed Hale moving done the schoolhouse equipped with aggregate firearms.

Authorities person said Hale entered the gathering done a broadside entranceway and moved done respective areas of the schoolhouse earlier being confronted by officers.

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Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake identified the 2 officers who fatally changeable suspected schoolhouse shooter Audrey Elizabeth Hale connected March 27, 2023. (Metro Nashville Police Department)

Shortly earlier the shooting, Hale sent a substance connection to a person describing the planned onslaught arsenic a "suicide mission" and stating the person would apt "hear astir maine connected the quality aft I die," according to summaries released by officials.

Among the recently released FBI materials is simply a handwritten leafage seen by Fox News Digital and labeled "Account Savings Record," and referenced national pupil fiscal aid.

In the entry, Hale wrote that "FAFSA [sic] assistance checks started astatine $2,050.86," followed by ledger-style notes documenting payments from Nossi College of Art and Design successful Nashville, wherever Hale was enrolled astatine the time.

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Metro Nashville Police Department released a video of 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale carrying retired a shooting astatine Covenant schoolhouse connected March 27, 2023. (Metro Nashville Police Department)

The fiscal entries look alongside extended notes astir firearms Hale planned to acquisition and usage successful the attack.

The Tennessee Star besides reported those records whitethorn lend enactment to statements Hale’s parents made to Metro Nashville Police Department detectives soon aft the shooting.

Hale’s parents reportedly told investigators successful 2023 that their kid utilized national Pell Grant wealth to acquisition the firearms utilized successful the attack.

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Memorials for the six victims who were killed successful a wide shooting are placed extracurricular of The Covenant School successful Nashville, Tennessee connected Tuesday, March 28, 2023. On Monday, 3 adults and 3 children were killed wrong the school. (KR/Mega for Fox News Digital)

Hale’s parent besides reportedly told constabulary that due to the fact that Hale was implicit 25 and enrolled arsenic a student, parental income nary longer factored into fiscal assistance eligibility, allowing Hale to suffice for assistance backing contempt being unemployed.

Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake antecedently confirmed that investigators recovered a manifesto and hand-drawn maps from Hale’s conveyance aft the shooting.

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While portions of Hale’s writings person since been released, some metropolis constabulary and the FBI person continued to defy nationalist records requests for the afloat manifesto.