Nashville faculty shooter Audrey Hale had handwritten notes on garments, numbered anklet: post-mortem

Audrey Elizabeth Hale, the 28-year-old trans artist killed by police after opening hearth on a personal Christian elementary faculty in Nashville, Tennessee, lined her garments in handwritten messages earlier than her lethal assault in late March, in keeping with an post-mortem report.

The report acknowledges that Hale recognized as a trans male however formally lists her as feminine.

She was carrying a knife inscribed together with her chosen title, Aiden, in keeping with the post-mortem.

Months after police launched bodycam video that confirmed responding officers take down the shooter in the course of the assault on the Covenant College, Hale’s trigger and method of dying had been unsurprisingly decided to be murder by gunshot wounds.

She additionally had bruises and abrasions and “minor” blunt power trauma.

Nevertheless, the report included new particulars in regards to the assault — together with the revelation that Hale’s garments had been lined in handwritten notes, drawings and numbers.

The report additionally famous that Hale wore a plastic anklet inscribed with “508407.”

It’s unclear what was written on her garments, and the revelation comes as the town faces public information lawsuits to demand the release of Hale’s manifesto and other writings, which had been recovered on the crime scene and at her mother and father’ dwelling.

The killer slept with journals on other school shootings under her bed, Fox Information Digital has beforehand reported, and police recovered dozens of notebooks and drawings, together with two “memoirs” and a hand-drawn map of the Covenant College.

That’s the place Hale barged in on March 27 and opened hearth on helpless college students and workers members, killing three adults and three kids.

Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake has mentioned that Hale suffered from an unspecified emotional dysfunction and that the controversial manifesto had been shared with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico, Virginia.

The kid victims had been all 9 years previous: Hallie Scruggs, the daughter of the college church’s pastor; Evelyn Dieckhaus; and William Kinney.

The adults included 60-year-old Head of School Katherine Koonce, and custodian Michael Hill and substitute instructor Cynthia Peak, each 61.

The forensic pathologist additionally discovered a scar throughout Hale’s brow however none on her wrists. The toxicology report got here again unfavourable for the presence of medication and alcohol.

The post-mortem was performed by Dr. Emily Dennison on March 28.

Hale was 5 ft 2 inches tall and weighed round 120 kilos.

One bullet handed via each lungs and Hale’s backbone, proper to left, again to entrance and barely downward, passing via an arm on its approach out, in keeping with the report.

A second bullet went via the shooter’s head, again to entrance, proper to left and upward.

A 3rd struck Hale within the femur, fragmented and got here out in two locations, additionally touring proper to left.