The 28-year-old transgender shooter who killed three adults and three children during an attack on a private Christian school in Nashville was wearing clothes covered in handwritten messages, according to an autopsy report.
The report states that Audrey Hale, who identified as a transgender male but was a biological female, died after being shot multiple times by law enforcement officers, the New York Post reported.
According to the news outlet, the autopsy also stated that Hale carried a knife with her preferred name, Aiden, inscribed on the handle.
The Davidson County Medical Examiner report concluded that The Covenant School shooting suspect died on March 27 of multiple gunshot wounds to the head and torso. Hale was pronounced dead at the scene.
The autopsy report said Hale was hit three times, with one shot striking the torso and left arm, a second hitting the head, and a third entering the right thigh. A bullet also grazed Hale’s right shoulder, USA Today reported.
Police said Hale fired 156 rounds during the rampage.
The autopsy also revealed that Hale’s clothes were covered in notes, drawings, and numbers. She was also wearing a plastic anklet that had “508407″ inscribed on it, the New York Post reported.
Hale reportedly began the attack around 10 a.m. by firing through a glass door, killing custodian Michael Hill, 61.
Nashville police received a call about an active shooter and were on the scene within 10 minutes, clearing classrooms and searching for the shooter.
Hale killed five others before police found her. Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney were all 9. Cynthia Peak was 61, and Katherine Koonce was 60. All were killed by Hale in the attack, as previously reported by The Dallas Express.
Scruggs was the daughter of the school church’s pastor, Chad Scruggs.
Details about the shooter come as the City of Nashville reportedly faces public records lawsuits related to the case. Groups asked a judge to release Hale’s manifesto and other writings recovered from the crime scene and her parents’ home.
Doug Pierce, an attorney for the National Police Association, which is seeking to release the writings, told Fox News:
“If public officials take them into custody as part of their duties, which is what happened here when police took them, they become part of the public record.”
A Nashville judge is considering arguments from some of the victims’ parents against releasing the manifesto, as previously reported by The Dallas Express.
An attorney representing the shooter’s parents claimed they transferred ownership of Hale’s writings to the families of students at the school, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported.
