Final Report on Trans Shooter at Christian School Released, Confirming What We Already Knew

If ever there was a story that exposed the rot festering beneath the polished veneer of evangelical respectability, it is the story of Audrey Hale, a woman who, in the twilight of March 2023, calmly armed herself to the teeth and unleashed a demonic massacre at The Covenant School in Nashville.

But what she left behind—not merely in blood, but in pages, paragraphs, and digital footprints—was a trail so damning, so ideologically inconvenient, that the Southern Baptist Convention's top ethicist, Brent Leatherwood, practically sprinted to the microphones to demand silence.

Not transparency. Not truth. Silence.

You see, Leatherwood, the president of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, was quick to offer his condolences after the attack. And to be fair, his own children were enrolled at Covenant—a deeply personal connection. But what followed was a textbook case in narrative management. When the public clamored for the shooter's "manifesto"—or whatever sanitized euphemism the SBC now prefers—Leatherwood instead championed its suppression. He argued that releasing the document would re-traumatize the victims and risk inciting copycats.

Sounds noble, right? Except it wasn’t. It was convenient. Convenient for a man whose job is to appease the secular powers that be while pretending to represent the gospel of Christ.

Because now we have the final investigation report. The real one. Not the talking points. Not the deflections. Not the politicized psychobabble. The final investigative summary by the Metro Nashville Police Department, dated March 31, 2025. And it confirms what every rational person already knew but what Leatherwood couldn't admit: Hale didn't just snap. She hunted. And she hunted Christians.

"She believed the Christian faith of those inside would make them less likely to resist... she also believed killing children from a Christian background would earn her more notoriety" (Page 37) and that their faith would make them “meek and afraid” (Page 39).

Let that quote roll around for a second. She didn’t pick a school at random. She didn’t target Covenant because of a grudge. She chose it because it was Christian. And in the warped ideological calculus of a mentally disturbed, trans-identified woman drunk on grievance and isolation, killing Christian children was her ticket to immortality.

But it gets worse.

She had another school in mind first. Creswell Middle. But, as the report details, she discarded that option because the student body was "predominantly black... she was afraid she would be seen as a racist, which would affect how much control she had over the narrative after her death" (Page 38).

Read that again. She intentionally avoided murdering black children to preserve the optics of her attack. Let me put it in simpler terms: she wanted to kill, but she wanted to kill in a way that wouldn’t ruin her posthumous PR. In the progressive pecking order of intersectional sainthood, white Christian kids are expendable. They don't trend.

And so she targeted them.

But it gets even worse still.

According to the report, Hale believed that she had a personal connection with the school, and since she was miserable at home, she chose this school because it was peaceful and “made her genuinely happy.”