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Nashville School Shooter Planned to Hit Other Targets, Police Believe

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The shooter who killed six people including three children at a Christian private school in Nashville planned to strike other targets, according to police.
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD) Chief John Drake told CBS News on Tuesday that 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale, who on Monday stormed into The Covenant School and went on a killing rampage before responding officers fatally wounded her, had other targets.
“We strongly believe there was going to be some other targets, including maybe family members, and one of the malls here in Nashville,” Drake said. “And that just did not happen.”
Police earlier said that Hale’s attack was “calculated and planned,” including a detailed map of the school showing potential entry points, and that she conducted surveillance of the building before carrying out the massacre.
Hale was heavily armed with two semi-automatic rifles and a 9 millimeter handgun and a “significant” amount of ammunition, police said. A search warrant executed at her home uncovered more evidence, including a sawed-off shotgun.‘Emotional Disorder’
Authorities do not yet have a clear motive for the shooting but Drake told NBC News that investigators believed the shooting stemmed from “some resentment” Hale harbored “for having to go to that school” when she was younger.
Speaking at a news conference, Drake said Hale “was under doctors’ care for an emotional disorder … law enforcement knew nothing about the treatment she was receiving.

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