John Drake, the police chief, said the shooter’s parents did not think their child should have weapons and wrongly believed they had only owned one gun, which had been sold. Nashville shooter was under a doctor's care for 'emotional disorder':
Silvia Foster-Frau,Joanna Slater,Mark Berman and Holly Bailey, 2023, The Washington PostNASHVILLE - The attacker who killed six people at a small Christian school in Nashville had been receiving treatment for "an emotional disorder" and hid several weapons from their parents before opening fire, police said Tuesday.
It appears, police said, that the school itself was the shooter's target, rather than any individual people there. Authorities said the six victims included three students - Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all 9 - as well as staff members Cynthia Peak, 61; Katherine Koonce, 60; and Mike Hill, 61.
"This is my last goodbye," the shooter wrote in the one of the Instagram messages, copies of which were shared with The Washington Post. Patton responded that Hale had much more life to live. "I just need to die," Hale replied. "Something bad is about to happen." Maria Colomy, 47, a former teacher at Nossi, said Hale's artwork stood out from the crowd. Colomy described it as whimsical and innocent, so much so that she thought Hale might end up illustrating children's books. Colomy stopped teaching at the school in 2017 but remained connected with Hale on social media. Hale had been posting about grief and missing a woman who had died, she said.
Drake, the police chief, said investigators had interviewed the shooter's parents. Hale was receiving a "doctor's care for an emotional disorder," Drake told reporters at a news briefing; he did not elaborate on what that disorder was or the nature of the treatment. Investigators have recovered what Drake called a "manifesto" from the shooter. On Tuesday afternoon, he described this as extensive writing that talked about the school, including a map and a drawing depicting the attack, along with "other locations." In a television interview earlier Tuesday, Drake said it appeared that other possible targets may have included "family members, and one of the malls here in Nashville.
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