Josh Hawley Calls on Feds to Investigate Nashville School Shooting as Hate Crime

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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has called on the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security to investigate the shooting at a private school in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 27 as a hate crime against Christians.

The Nashville Police Department (NPD) identified 28-year-old Audrey Hale as the shooter of six people, including three 9-year-old children, who were confirmed to have been killed at The Covenant School.

Police Chief John Drake identified Hale as transgender, and a LinkedIn page that was allegedly associated with Hale indicated that she used โ€œhe/himโ€ pronouns in her biography.

The NPD said Hale was also a former student at the school and was being treated by a physician for an โ€œemotional disorder.โ€

In his letter to the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Hawley called the shooting a targeted attack (pdf).

โ€œAn individual identified by police killed six peopleโ€”students Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, and employees Cynthia Peak, Katherine Koonce, and Michael Hillโ€”in a murderous rampage at a Christian school known as The Covenant School,โ€ Hawley wrote.

Surveillance footage shows Hale, wearing camouflage pants and a red baseball cap turned backward, shooting through the glass doors of the school to enter the building.

The NPD later released body-camera footage of the departmentโ€™s response to the shooting, capturing a search that led officers to the second floor where police shot and killed Hale at 10:27 a.m.

โ€˜Premeditated and Targetedโ€™

Though Hawley said incidents like this are frequently labeled as โ€œsenseless violence,โ€ he argued Hale targeted Christians, and pointed to federal law which criminalizes acts of violence against people with religious affiliations as hate crimes.

โ€œAccording to Nashville law enforcement, Haleโ€™s attack was both premeditated and โ€˜targetedโ€™ against this Christian school, its students and employees,โ€ Hawley said. โ€œNashville police chief John Drake announced yesterday that โ€˜we have a manifesto, we have some writings, that weโ€™re going over that pertain to this date, the actual incident . . . . We have a map drawn out of how this was all going to take place.’โ€

Hawley added that police believe Hale had โ€œsome resentment for having to go to that school.โ€

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