By Jen Smith, Chief Reporter For Dailymail.Com
12:58 28 Mar 2023, upgraded 18:19 28 Mar 2023
- Hale sent the messages on Instagram to Averianna Patton, a friend from school
- The shooter left an in-depth manifesto and extracted maps of the school
- Six individuals consisting of 3 kids were shot dead in the shooter’s rampage
- SEE: Police release 6 minutes of hellish bodycam video
The transgender school shooter who killed 6 individuals consisting of 3 innocent kids the other day prior to being assassinated by authorities sent a message to a friend minutes prior to the rampage, informing her: ‘I’m preparing to pass away today… you’ll most likely become aware of me on the news.’
Audrey Hale, 28, shot and killed 3 trainees and 3 instructors at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, soon prior to 10.30am the other day.
Audrey – who was transgender and likewise passed ‘Aiden’ – was then shot and killed by authorities.
Before taking a trip to the school, the killer sent a haunting last message to Averianna Patton on Instagram.
They had actually played intermediate school basketball together and stayed pals.
At 9.57am, 16 minutes prior to police officers were very first informed to 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 become aware of me on the news after I pass away.
‘This is my last farewell. I like you. ‘See you once again in another life.’
‘Audrey (Aiden)’.
Patton instantly called the police officers to report the messages however it was already far too late.
By the time she called, Audrey had actually started shooting kids at the little, church school.
Patton informed News Channel 5 Nashville that another message read: ‘One day this will make more sense. I’ve left sufficient proof behind.
‘But something bad will occur.’
During a look on CNN on Tuesday early morning, she said Hale had actually been self-destructive in the past.
‘Audrey has actually shown others that she had actually been self-destructive in the past and I understood to take this severe.’
She likewise revealed that she was on hold for 7 minutes prior to somebody addressed her call to the non-emergency authorities line.
‘I called Nashville’s non-emergency line at 10:14am and was on hold for almost 7 minutes prior to consulting with somebody who said that they would send out an officer to my home.
‘An officer did not concern my home up until 3:29 pm,’ she said.
The initially 911 call of a shooting was available in at 10.13am.
By 10.27am, authorities were at the school and had actually killed Hale on the 2nd flooring of the building.
Hale shot her method into the school, shooting through among the locked doors.
She then made her method through the very first flooring, and as much as the 2nd.
It stays uncertain precisely the number of shots she fired in overall, and whether anybody else was shot and hurt.
