A 28-year-old, who was a female but started identifying as a transgender male several months ago, shot and killed three children and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville, Tenn. on Monday.
Audrey Elizabeth Hale was formerly enrolled at Covenant School, a Presbyterian campus. A team of five officers entered the campus at 10:13 a.m. and 14 minute later had taken down Hale, according to police. She had fired at police.
“Two MNPD officers who entered the building and went to the sounds of gunfire engaged the shooter on the second floor and fatally shot her,” police reported.
This is in stark contrast to the police response last year in Uvalde, Texas, when 376 officers descended on a school during an active shooting in late May, but didn’t go inside and confront the shooter, who killed 19, while police waited outside.
Nashville Chief John Drake said that detectives think Hale identified as trans, “but we’re still in the initial investigation into all of that and if it actually played a role into this incident.”
ABC News and other news organizations inaccurately that Hale was “assigned” female at birth:
“A police spokesperson told ABC News that Hale was assigned female at birth, and pointed to a social media account linked to Hale that included use of the pronouns he/him.”
Scientifically, there is no such thing as an “assigned” sex at birth, but the mainstream media has begun to report this as a biological fact.
To that point, USA Today accused the Nashville police of having “misgendered” the shooter.
The shooter was said to be a graphic designer and illustrator. Among the three children that she shot dead, one was the daughter of the church pastor. Of the adults, one was the head of the school and another was a 61-year-old custodian at the school.
Although the motive of the killing is not clear, police believe that some sort of resentment stemming from Hale’s attendance at the school is likely. Police said it was a targeted attack.
It’s not been revealed if Hale had been on hormones or had had surgery to become more masculine in her quest to live as a trans man.
Covenant School, founded in 2001, has an enrollment of about 200 students, from pre-k through sixth grade. The student-teacher ratio is 8-to-1, according to the school’s website.
In Colorado Springs, Colo. in November, a man who identifies as “non-binary” is the suspect in a mass shooting at a nightclub for LGBTQ customers. After that shooting, the mainstream media reported, “Clear spike in anti-trans rhetoric sets stage for violence like Colorado Springs shooting, experts say. Club Q hosts the kind of all-ages drag shows that have been targeted by anti-LGBTQ protesters, spurred on by conservative media claiming kids are being ‘groomed'”. But, in fact, the shooter had an alternate gender identity, as did the victims.
In 2018, transgender Snochia Moseley, 26, shot three people and then killed herself at the Enterprise Business Park in Aberdeen, Maryland.
Later this week, a “Transgender Day of Vengeance” is planned across the country.
