![]() The shooting came weeks after Tennessee's legislature thrust the state to the forefront of a political furor over LGBTQ rights by voting to ban gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender children and to place new restrictions on drag performances. Investigators "don't have a motive at this time," he said Tuesday. The chief declined to elaborate and did not say what role, if any, Hale's gender identity, educational background or other social or religious dynamics might have played. On Monday, Drake said Hale identified as a transgender person, and said investigators believe the suspect harbored "some resentment for having to go to" the Covenant School as a child. ![]() Under Tennessee law, mental illness is not grounds for police to confiscate weapons, unless a person is deemed mentally incompetent by a court, "judicially committed" to a mental institution," or placed under a conservatorship "by reason of mental defect." Hale "was under care, a doctor's care, for an emotional disorder," the chief told reporters during a news briefing, without elaborating. ![]() The mother, on seeing Hale leave the house with a red bag Monday morning, had questioned what was in the bag, the chief said. The chief added that the mother and father felt Hale should not have owned any weapons due to mental health concerns. Hale's own parents did not know that Hale possessed multiple firearms, mistakenly believing that Hale had owned just one gun, then sold it, Drake said. The three weapons used on Monday were among seven firearms that Hale had legally purchased in recent years from five Nashville-area stores, Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake told reporters on Tuesday. mass shootings that have turned schools into killing zones and added fuel to a national debate over gun rights and regulations. Hale was armed with two assault-style weapons and a handgun, the latest in a long string of U.S. New details about assailant Audrey Elizabeth Hale, 28, emerged hours after police released harrowing video showing officers storming the Covenant School in the midst of Monday's rampage and conducting a room-to-room search before confronting and fatally shooting Hale.Īuthorities said they were still trying to pin down a motive as detectives pored over various writings and other evidence left by Hale. (It pans a bit faster than desirable.NASHVILLE, Tennessee, March 28 (Reuters) - The former student of a Christian grade school in Nashville who killed three 9-year-olds and three adults in a shooting spree there was under a doctor's care for an "emotional disorder" and had amassed a collection of guns, the city's police chief said on Tuesday.
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