The Nashville School Shooters Journal is now in the public domain.

I'm Elizabeth Mitchell and this is the Daily Signal top news for Wednesday, September 4th. The Tennessee Star recently released the Nashville Shooters Journal.

Audrey Hale, the 28-year-old female who identified as male, opened fire at the Covenant

School in Nashville on March 27th, 2023.

Before police shot and killed her, Hale killed three children and three adults.

The Metro Nashville Police Department recovered 90 pages of Hale's writings,

which a source familiar with the investigation

provided to the Tennessee Star in June 2024. The Star published the journal

on Tuesday. The Daily Signals Tyler O''Neill, covered this story.

Thanks so much for joining the show.

Hey, my pleasure, thanks for having me.

Authorities originally said that the shooter's political and religious ideology was unclear,

but that is a large focus of the journal.

Can you please elaborate on the themes of the journal?

Yeah, so the themes are really strongly gender-related.

You know, it's, it really shows that this person is driven by a rejection of her physical body and a desire to be male.

And she, one of the most revealing aspects of it to me was a page where she wrote this.

She wrote, The Cocoon of my old self will die when I leave my body behind and the boy in me will be

free in my butterfly transformation, the real me.

And so what I think this is a very religious text. It shows that

Audrey Hale really identified as male and thought that you know when she died she would be entered into heaven as a boy because her real

self, this, you know, this spiritual concept of herself is male even though her body

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