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Only 14 minutes passed between the alarm being raised for an active shooter targeting The Covenant elementary school in Nashville, Tenn. and the assailant being killed in a hail of bullets by two police officers.
But in that time Audrey Hale — a 28-year-old transgender former student of the private Christian school – unleashed complete chaos, leaving three 9-year-old students and three employees dead.
Twisted Hale, who had started using he/him pronouns in online profiles, had sat in her car in the parking lot of the school and sent messages about the act she was about to commit to a friend.
“I’m planning to die today … You’ll probably hear about me on the news,” Hale wrote to a former classmate.
Authorities have revealed the attack was pre-planned and targeted, and Hale had a further cache of weapons hidden throughout the brick-faced home she shared with her parents.
Hale’s parents had thought she sold the legally-bought firearms after they expressed their disapproval, police said, but instead, she used two assault rifles and a handgun to carry out her heinous suicide mission.
This is how it unfolded: 9:54 a.m.
Hale’s gray-colored Honda Fit is seen pulling into the parking lot of the Covenant School and church grounds, and past at least one person standing on the sidewalk, according to footage released by the Metro-Nashville Police Department.
She drove through the parking lot before apparently parking the vehicle.
Hale’s parents later told police they saw her leaving their shared home with an unusual “red bag,” officials revealed.9:57 a.m.
Hale sends a series of Instagram messages to her former classmate, Averianna Patton, in which she writes, “So basically that post I made on here about you, that was basically a suicide note.
