Female ex-student identified as Christian school shooter as six victims named
Audrey Hale, a former student of The Covenant School, has been identified as the 28-year-old female shooter who killed six individuals at the Christian school.
Hale, of Nashville, identified as transgender, according to authorities.
The victims of the shooting have been named as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all 9 years old; head of the school Katherine Koonce, 60; substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, 61; and custodian Mike Hill, 61.
Hale was armed with two assault-style rifles and a handgun and had entered the school by shooting her way through a side door before opening fire on the first and second floors.
She was later gunned down by the police.
Investigators said that Hale had detailed maps of the school, and they had found a manifesto and other writings at her home. The authorities have communicated with her father and continue to gather evidence.
The weapons used in the assault appeared to have been legally purchased.
President Joe Biden has called for more gun control legislation in light of the 129th mass shooting in the US this year, and the fastest rate of shootings in the last decade.
Female mass shooters are rare, with only four cases of female assailants since 1966, according to the Violence Project, and this marks the first time a female school shooter has killed four or more people.
