Nearly 100 pages of the manifesto of the transgender shooter who killed three children and three staff members at Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, in March of 2023 were released on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, Michael Patrick Leahy, editor-in-chief of The Tennessee Star, released 90 pages of “The Covenant Killer’s 2023 Journal,” which was written by Nashville school shooter Audrey “Aiden” Hale. According to The Tennessee Star, the 90 pages were written between January and March of 2023, prior to the mass shooting in Nashville.
The Tennessee Star reported that Hale’s journal was obtained legally in June from a source familiar with the investigation and that the journal was discovered by the Metro Nashville Police Department in Hale’s vehicle after the mass shooting.
Pictures of the manifesto shared on X, formerly Twitter, show a red notebook with the name “Aiden” featured on the cover. The Tennessee Star reported that the trans-identifying shooter often went by the name Aiden instead of Audrey.
Inside the cover of the notebook, Hale wrote, “Darkness,” “Everything hurts,” and “Why does my brain not work right?? Cause I was born wrong.” “Nothing on Earth can save me,” Hale added, “Never-ending pain. Religion won’t save me.”
Multiple pages of the manifesto include drawings of broken hearts, statements about loving someone, transgender ideology, and suicidal comments.
Additional pictures of the shooter’s manifesto were shared by conservative host Steven Crowder. One of the pages states, “No brown girls, no love,” and “brown love is the most beautiful kind.” Another page features the statement, “Audrey is not my name but when you say it I am just as the little 1 I was back then. I can be a kid again with you alongside you even if I can’t really be w/ you.”
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Crowder also pointed out that the shooter wrote, “If God won’t give me a boy body in heaven then Jesus is a f-ggot” and “I can’t be happy. I am meant to die.”
On January 16, Hale wrote, “I’m so sorry Nikki. I didn’t mean to plan my massacre on the 17th. I’m going to be a terrible sh-t for leaving you. How bad my heart hurts. Tomorrow is my last day on Earth. I love you. I am so sorry, Audrey.” However, the next day, Hale added, “PS – Not leaving yet. I couldn’t do it. I don’t want to ruin your day. I’ll wait as planned.”
According to The Post Millennial, multiple pages of the school shooter’s manifesto include the phrase “white nothingness.” Other pages include the statements, “Society + politics are scum in this world that nature should wipe clean” and “W/o my creativity, I am useless + meaningless to society. I am of no society. And I have society b/c society ignores to see me. I’m a queer; I am meant to die.”
