A summary of the police investigation, released two years after the attack, found that the shooter had spent years planning the violence and covering up mental health problems.

Bent on infamy and obsessed with mass killings and school shootings, Audrey Hale extensively chronicled her grievances against her parents and others she blamed for her fraught life as she stocked up on firearms and meticulously prepared for the March 2023 massacre at a Christian school,

Audrey Hale didn’t care that The Covenant School was a Christian school. The 28-year-old woman wanted to kill children and get famous, Nashville police have concluded after a two-year criminal investigation into the March 2023 shooting that left three students and three staff members dead.