Audrey Hale didn’t care that The Covenant School was a Christian school. The 28-year-old woman wanted to kill children and get famous, Nashville police have concluded after a two-year criminal investigation into the March 2023 shooting that left three students and three staff members dead.

A new police report shines more light on the person who killed three 9-year-olds and three adults at a private Nashville Christian elementary school in 2023

A summary of the police investigation, released two years after the attack, found that the shooter had spent years planning the violence and covering up mental health problems.