Chilling 911 call from Nashville school shooter’s friend after shooter sent haunting messages

• Averianna Patton, a previous basketball colleague of Hale’s, called the cops minutes after she had actually begun contending the school
• She at first called the suicide avoidance hotline who informed her to call the closest authorities
• Hale shot and killed 3 kids and 3 members of staff throughout the event in Nashville on Monday 

A chilling 911 call has actually been launched from a friend of the trans school shooter who got messages from the mass killer minutes prior to the rampage.

Averianna Patton got a number of troubling messages from Audrey Hale, 28, on Instagram soon prior to she began spraying bullets inside the Covenant School in Nashville.

She shot and killed 3 trainees, 9, and 3 team member at 10:10am – sending out the messages to Patton at 9:57am.

After getting a message from Hale stating, ‘I’m preparing to pass away today – you’ll most likely find out about me on the news’, Patton called the suicide hotline, who then motivated her to call the authorities to inform them to the scenario.

In her 911 call at around 10:12am – when equipped officers showed up on the scene – she said: ‘I’m simply attempting to see if anyone can help. I simply do not desire it on my mindful.

‘If someone can go examine her –  the only thing I have is her Instagram. Can I provide you her Instagram so y’all can discover her or track her that method?’ 

Hale’s previous basketball colleague was informed there was absolutely nothing officers might do to help without an address for the shooter. 

But the Metropolitan Nashville Police has actually verified to Fox17 that at the time of the call cops were already coming to the personal Christian school to deal with the shooter.

Hale, who passed both Audrey and Aiden, had actually already shot and killed 6 individuals by the time cops showed up. 

At 9.57am, 16 minutes prior to polices were very first informed of the shooting, Audrey composed: ‘So essentially that post I made on here about you, that was essentially a suicide note.

‘I’m preparing to pass away today. THIS IS NOT A JOKE!!! You’ll most likely find out about me on the news after I pass away. 

‘This is my last bye-bye. I enjoy you. ‘See you once again in another life. Audrey (Aiden)’. 

It follows a previous pastor of the school declared that their existing pastor, Chad Scruggs, was targeted by the killer.

Authorities said Hale had actually prepared to assault more than one place – consisting of a shopping center and another school – and now Bachmann has actually informed InsideEdition that she might have been targeting Pastor Scruggs’ other 3 kids.

He declared that Pastor Scruggs had actually been supplying her with therapy, including that Hale ‘seemed searching the school’ for him.

However he was not on-site at the time, and Bachmann hypothesized that Hale would have ‘left his child alone’ had she had the ability to discover Scruggs.

Bachmann said: ‘I’m hearing he was supplying therapy for her, and something didn’t sit best with her, therefore she targeted his child and possibly his 2 children that go to another independent school.

‘If she’d discovered Chad and attempted to eliminate him, perhaps she would have left his child alone, I do not understand.

‘She was an extremely regular, happy-go-lucky little lady who liked to play kickball with the kids, and her moms and dads were fantastic individuals.’

However these claims have actually been rejected by the Covenant School, with a representative informing DailyMail.com: ‘Metro Nashville Police have actually been clear that nobody was targeted in the shooting, and Pastor Scruggs was not counseling the shooter.

‘The previous pastor had actually said on a tv program he had actually heard that, however it is not precise and is based upon rumor, not truth.’

A representative for the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said that they still do not have a main intention for the shooting.

Pastor Scruggs and his other half likewise share 3 children older than Hallie, with a minimum of one formerly going to the Covenant.

It is uncertain where Pastor Scruggs was at the time of the shooting.

A relative of Audrey Hale informed DailyMail.com she had actually ‘heard absolutely nothing’ about the shooter allegedly going through therapy sessions with Chad Scruggs, pastor at The Covenant School and daddy of victim Hallie, 9.

‘I do not’ understand anything about that. I have not heard anything like that, ‘ said the relative.

Friends and next-door neighbors at the Scruggs’ family home said they were likewise shocked to become aware of the claims made by previous Covenant pastor, Jim Bachmann, in an interview Wednesday night with Inside Edition.

Bachmann hypothesized that Hale was targeting Scruggs however shot Hallie rather after stopping working to find her daddy on school properties.

‘They have actually requested for some space. We have not heard anything about that at all,’ said a family friend.

Hallie’s grandma Sharon Scruggs decreased to comment.

Tributes have actually flooded in for little Hallie, and for the 2 other kids killed in the shooting – William Kinney and Evelyn Dieckhaus, both 9.

Headmistress Dr Katherine Koonce, 60, replacement instructor Cynthia Peak, 61, and chef Mike Hill, 61 were likewise killed in the mass shooting. 

Hale utilized the names Audrey and Aiden however her favored pronouns were he/him according to a ConnectedIn page.

Police verified on Tuesday that she had actually formerly participated in the school in Nashville, Tennessee, however her intention for the shooting was uncertain.

Police Chief John Drake included that Hale had actually been experiencing an ’emotional condition’ at the time of the shooting.

Hale has actually been referred to as having ‘high-functioning’ autism and cops verified she was under medical professionals’ care.

Her moms and dads – Norma and Ronald Hale – understood that she had a weapon at one time, however informed her to offer it due to the fact that they believed she could not be relied on with it.

Instead, she concealed her stockpile and contributed to it, purchasing 7 various weapons in overall from 5 regional shops, cops said.

Chief Drake included: ‘Law enforcement understood absolutely nothing about the treatment, and it appears that she ought to not own weapons.’

Authorities likewise verified that Hale’s mom, Norma, had actually asked her what remained in a red knapsack she was continuing the early morning of the murders however she dismissed her concern. 

She took 3 of her weapons to The Covenant School – 2 rifles and a pistol. 

Another 2 weapons were seen being gotten rid of from your house the other day in a video obtained specifically by DailyMail.com. 

It follows Hale was said to have actually been ‘enamored’ with Sydney Sims, who used the very same basketball group as her in intermediate school.

Sims’ abrupt death in a scary head-on smash last August left Hale ‘sad’ and might have sent her into a homicidal spiral, according to a report released Wednesday.

But Sims’ twin sibling Taylor Sims, 28, has actually ripped the story on a personal Instagram message obtained by DailyMail.com.

‘Please do not connect such a nasty, horrible disaster to my sibling’s name,’ she composed. ‘This is extremely ill and simply goes to reveal individuals talk. Please leave my sibling out of it.’

Samira Hardcastle, who went to the Nashville School of Arts with both ladies, informed the New York Post that Hale appreciated Sims and published ‘sad’ messages about her death on her now-deleted social networks accounts.

She likewise went to the unveiling of a painting committed to Sims and published a clip of herself calmly bouncing a ball on TikTok with the caption: ‘For Syd. I search for the sky is brilliant. It’s a lovely day. I want you were here…’

Former good friends have actually informed DailyMail.com that while Hale might have had a crush on Sims in the previous there was never ever any recommendation it was reciprocated.

Hale revealed likewise lost love to another youth friend, Averianna Patton, simply 20 minutes prior to beginning her psychopathic shooting spree Monday at The Covenant School, eliminating 3 kids and 3 grownups.

‘This is my last bye-bye. I enjoy you,’ she messaged her on Instagram. ‘You are the most gorgeous individual I’ve ever seen and understood all my life.’

Patton informed CNN’s Don Lemon that she had not had a relationship with the shooter given that they were kids.

Investigators are yet to launch the manifesto deformed Hale left prior to storming her previous grade school.

DailyMail.com revealed previously today that her trans identity triggered friction with her devout Christian moms and dads who prohibited her from impersonating a male in their rural Nashville home.

A school friend of Hale likewise declared that she liked to dress up as Page’s renowned character Juno – a pregnant teen – throughout their time as freshmen at The Nashville School of Arts.

Hale’s schoolmates said that they weren’t shocked when she came out as gay or when she later on chose to shift.

A yearbook picture obtained by DailyMail.com revealed Hale winning ‘Most Athletic’ along with another schoolmate.

Church organizer Norma, 61, and her partner Ronald, 64, declined to let Hale as a man in their home.

The loner would rather wait up until she left their $700,000 Nashville property to alter attire, according to a well-placed source.

It follows the 6 victims of the disaster have actually been recognized, with homages flooding in for Evelyn who frantically attempted to save her schoolmates from the disaster.

Her family has actually explained her as a ‘shining light’ and said that they are ‘totally broken’ by her death.

They included that she had actually been frantically attempting to pull the emergency alarm to get help when the shooting unfolded on Monday.