# March 27, trans man, initially identified as Female shooter kills 6 @ Nashville Christian school **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** breaking-news\ **Created:** [March 27, 2023, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-27-trans-man-initially-identified-as-female-shooter-kills-6-nashville-christian-school/981720 "2023-03-27T17:55:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-27-trans-man-initially-identified-as-female-shooter-kills-6-nashville-christian-school/981720/1 "2023-03-27T17:55:00Z")
> **[Nashville school shooting: six shot dead by former student](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/multiple-victims-reported-after-school-shooting-nashville-officials-say-2023-03-27/)** > > A heavily armed 28-year-old fatally shot three children and three adult staffers at a private Christian school the suspect once attended in Tennessee's capital city before police killed the assailant. > … > The shooter had at least two semi-automatic rifles and a handgun, Aaron said. Two officers from a five-member team shot at her in what Aaron described as a lobby area and she was dead by 10:27 a.m… > > “We do not know who she is at this juncture,” Aaron said. > > Deadly mass shootings have become commonplace in the United States, but a female attacker is highly unusual. Only four of the 191 mass shootings since 1966 catalogued by The Violence Project, a nonprofit research center, were carried out by a female attacker. > … One almost every day now… ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-27-trans-man-initially-identified-as-female-shooter-kills-6-nashville-christian-school/981720/2 "2023-03-27T17:58:10Z")
The shooter was a teenage female. The shooting took place in a Christian school. Maybe those two facts will spur some action from our legislators. Just kidding. As usual, nothing will happen. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-27-trans-man-initially-identified-as-female-shooter-kills-6-nashville-christian-school/981720/3 "2023-03-27T17:58:51Z")
It is a Monday, after all… ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-27-trans-man-initially-identified-as-female-shooter-kills-6-nashville-christian-school/981720/4 "2023-03-27T18:00:15Z")
No silicone chip has been found yet, though. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-27-trans-man-initially-identified-as-female-shooter-kills-6-nashville-christian-school/981720/5 "2023-03-27T18:01:10Z")
I’m hoping this will be their “come to Jesus” moment. ---
**Author:** ![TruePisces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/truepisces/32/13628_2.png) [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-27-trans-man-initially-identified-as-female-shooter-kills-6-nashville-christian-school/981720/6 "2023-03-27T18:07:35Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Just kidding. As usual, nothing will happen. No, something will. Because this is in one of the ritzy parts of town where the kids are moneyed and white. Which is all our f\*cking Tennessee government gives a site about. Of course, whatever is done won’t benefit our public schools in any way, because our asshole governor wants all the kids out of public schools and into private it charters. It’s not my kids’ schools, not even in the same cluster as where either of my kids’ schools are. But I’m angry and depressed and so damned sick of it all! I shouldn’t have to worry - no one should have to worry - that their kids won’t ever come home from school. We shouldn’t be afraid to send out kids to school because some mentally ill person with a gun decides that spring up a school is a good way to make a name for themselves. But tell me again how Trans kids and drag queens are the big problem in our state… ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-27-trans-man-initially-identified-as-female-shooter-kills-6-nashville-christian-school/981720/7 "2023-03-27T18:13:01Z")
Is this the first teen girl (acting alone) shooter? I can’t recall another one. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-27-trans-man-initially-identified-as-female-shooter-kills-6-nashville-christian-school/981720/8 "2023-03-27T18:14:40Z")
Sorry, I assumed it was common knowledge. Brenda Spencer, 16, shot up an elementary school back in the late 1970s and gave, as her reason, “I don’t like Mondays”. Hence the song by the Boomtown Rats. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-27-trans-man-initially-identified-as-female-shooter-kills-6-nashville-christian-school/981720/9 "2023-03-27T18:19:26Z")
Not a teenager: > The shooter has been identified as Nashville woman, who is 28. Two MNPD officers who entered the building and went to the sounds of gunfire engaged the shooter on the second floor and fatally shot her. > **[Seven dead, including three children at The Covenant School on Monday](https://www.newschannel5.com/news/police-responding-to-active-aggressor-situation-at-covenant-school)** > > Seven people are dead — including three children — at The Covenant School on Monday morning after a shooting inside the building. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-27-trans-man-initially-identified-as-female-shooter-kills-6-nashville-christian-school/981720/10 "2023-03-27T18:23:16Z")
**Moderator Note** > [@PastTense](#): > > The shooter has been identified as Nashville woman, who is 28. I have removed the word “teen” from the thread title. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-27-trans-man-initially-identified-as-female-shooter-kills-6-nashville-christian-school/981720/11 "2023-03-27T20:04:53Z")
Reporting is now saying she was a former student. No mention of how long ago. ---
**Author:** ![TruePisces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/truepisces/32/13628_2.png) [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-27-trans-man-initially-identified-as-female-shooter-kills-6-nashville-christian-school/981720/12 "2023-03-27T20:08:22Z")
It’s a K-6 school, so a minimum of 14 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-27-trans-man-initially-identified-as-female-shooter-kills-6-nashville-christian-school/981720/13 "2023-03-27T20:09:16Z")
How long 'til the chirpy “Thoughts and prayers!” tweets? … or have they already started pouring down? ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-27-trans-man-initially-identified-as-female-shooter-kills-6-nashville-christian-school/981720/14 "2023-03-27T20:10:25Z")
Clearly but no information if she attended for a brief period or for several years. I wasn’t as clear as I could have been I guess. ---
**Author:** ![TruePisces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/truepisces/32/13628_2.png) [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-27-trans-man-initially-identified-as-female-shooter-kills-6-nashville-christian-school/981720/15 "2023-03-27T20:11:48Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > How long 'til the chirpy “Thoughts and prayers!” tweets? > > … or have they already started pouring down? Oh, I’ve already seen a few of those from our “representatives”, word on the TV. ---
**Author:** ![TruePisces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/truepisces/32/13628_2.png) [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-27-trans-man-initially-identified-as-female-shooter-kills-6-nashville-christian-school/981720/16 "2023-03-27T20:13:54Z")
I’ll see if I can find out anything more locally. If I do, I’ll post it. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-27-trans-man-initially-identified-as-female-shooter-kills-6-nashville-christian-school/981720/17 "2023-03-27T20:36:20Z")
> ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-27-trans-man-initially-identified-as-female-shooter-kills-6-nashville-christian-school/981720/18 "2023-03-27T21:12:27Z")
Victims’ names and ages: > ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-27-trans-man-initially-identified-as-female-shooter-kills-6-nashville-christian-school/981720/19 "2023-03-27T21:29:50Z")
So did the shooter identify as he/him? Reports are their Linkedin page has the pronouns he/him. > **[‘Quiet’ Ex-Student in Nashville Massacre Had a ‘Manifesto’](https://www.thedailybeast.com/nashville-covenant-school-shooting-suspect-identified-as-audrey-hale)** > > Audrey Elizabeth Hale is accused of killing three children and three adults after storming a private Christian school on Monday morning. > While police described Hale as a 28-year-old white woman, social media profiles under Hale’s name list he/him pronouns. A LinkedIn profile says Hale started a freelance illustration and graphic design business last year after attending, and working for, Nossi College of Art in Madison, Tennessee. At Nossi, Hale won an award for “most improved” in 2015, according to the school’s site. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-27-trans-man-initially-identified-as-female-shooter-kills-6-nashville-christian-school/981720/20 "2023-03-27T21:38:38Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > So did the shooter identify as he/him? Reports are their Linkedin page has the pronouns he/him. Cripes, if that’s true, we’ll never hear the end of this. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-27-trans-man-initially-identified-as-female-shooter-kills-6-nashville-christian-school/981720.md?page=2)