Yesterday morning at around 10:13 am, Audrey Hale, who identified as a “transgender,” entered the Covenant Elementary School by shooting her way through locked glass doors and then climbing through the broken glass to get inside. Once she entered the school, she began to walk the hallways of the school she once attended—where innocent children were attending their Christ-centered school; she began her hunt to snuff out the lives of innocent children and to forever change the lives of the surviving children and staff members who witnessed the carnage.
The Nashville Police Department shared some of the details – The shooter, Audrey Elizabeth Hale, 28, who attended the school years ago, arrived on campus in her Honda Fit. She was heavily armed with three guns, two of them assault-type weapons, and, as seen in surveillance video, shot her way into the church/school through doors on the side of the building.
Hale entered the Covenant building after shooting out the glass of these doors. pic.twitter.com/EC5e7bA5dN
— Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) March 28, 2023
The video below shows Hale entering the elementary school carrying an assault-type weapon through a hole that she shot through the glass doors. Hale can be seen carefully crawling through the broken glass and entering into the hallway. She returns to the area where she shot out the glass on the doors and then heads back to the hallway, where she appears to enter a room. Flashes of light can be seen on the walls in the hallway, indicating that she may be shooting her gun inside the room.
Active shooter Audrey Elizabeth Hale drove to Covenant Church/School in her Honda Fit this morning, parked, and shot her way into the building. She was armed with 2 assault-type guns and a 9 millimeter pistol. pic.twitter.com/mIk2pDmCwQ
— Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) March 28, 2023
The first call to 911 about shots being fired in the building came in at 10:13 a.m.
As officers responded to the Covenant campus, Hale fired on arriving police vehicles from a 2nd story window. pic.twitter.com/7JiLdCHhF1
— Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) March 28, 2023
Officers rushed to the campus, made entry, and began clearing the building. Shots were heard coming from the second level. It was on the second floor, in a common area, that a team of officers encountered Hale shooting (she had been firing through a window at arriving police cars).
Two members of an officer team fired on Hale and fatally wounded her. Those two officers are Officer Rex Englebert, a four-year MNPD veteran, and Officer Michael Collazo, a nine-year MNPD veteran.

The Nashville Metro Police Department has now released the chilling body cam footage from the police officer heroes that located the suspect and fatally shot her in a sitting area on the second floor of the school.
Here is the full six-minute body cam video showing the Nashville Metro Police officers arriving on the scene and moving quickly to take out the shooter.
Nashville Police release six minutes of body cam footage showing how officers engaged and stopped the shooter. While some details are blurred, this footage is graphic.
Absolute heroes. pic.twitter.com/RD8tyfFyic— Brick Suit (@Brick_Suit) March 28, 2023
Writings recovered from Hale revealed that her attack was calculated and planned.
A search warrant executed at Hale’s Brightwood Avenue home resulted in the seizure of a sawed-off shotgun, a second shotgun, and other evidence.