A Pathological Vendetta Against Children

"There is video from the school that we are viewing now to try to learn exactly how all of this happened."

Don Aaron, police spokesperson

 

"In a tragic morning, Nashville joined the dreaded, long list of communities to experience school shooting."

"M heart goes out to the families of the victims. Our entire city stands with you."

Nashville Mayor John Cooper

 

"We have a manifesto, we have some writings that we're going over that pertain to this date, the actual incident."

"We have a map drawn out of how this was all going to take place."

“Our police officers have cried and are crying with Nashville and the world. I have cried and continue to cry and I have prayed for Nashville as well."

Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake

Monday marked yet another shooting atrocity in a school in the United States. It is unfathomable that disturbed minds are able to access firearms. It is beyond difficult to mentally ingest that anyone would set out deliberately to deprive children of their futures. To leave families in a state of permanent bereavement. To leave surviving children with the living memory of the fear and terror instilled in them by psychopaths who used automatic rifles to hunt down and kill children.

Two "assault-style" rifles along with a pistol in the hands of a woman who considered herself a man. A manly thing to do, taking lethal weapons into a school with the intention of murdering children and their adult protectors. Three nine-year olds and three adults in a virtual blink of an eye lost their lives at The Covenant School where several hundred children are educated from preschool through to the sixth grade.

All the sorrow and grieving revolves  around a 14-minute event that unfolded rapidly and violently by a mind vicious enough to plan every detail of the attack.The 28-year-old had emailed someone just before embarking on her fatal excursion, for she too died, just as she meant to. A mind in turmoil seeking death and the method of suicide carefully thought out; death by police fire. But to draw that police fire she would first kill six people. An obvious choice made by a diseased mind.

 

The attacker's body is shown lying on the ground after officers opened fire    Sky News

 

A video was in fact released a day later, from a body-worn camera. The six-minute video follows on an earlier video release. 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale smashed through the glass doors of the elementary school and made her way into the school where she had once been a student. She had carefully drawn a map of action with several entry points. This born female identified as transgender making use of the pronouns that have become formulaic in rejecting one's birth gender.

 

She murdered Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, three nine-year-old children. She murdered 51-year-old Cynthia Peak, 60-year-old Katherine Koonce, and 61-year-old Mike Hill. One woman, Ms. Peak, was a school volunteer, Mr. Hill a school custodian, and Katherine Koonce was the school head. None of them  could begin to imagine that before the day was over they would no longer be alive.

 

The second of the two videos cane from a camera worn by Officer Rex Engelbert. A woman greets police on their arrival: "The kids are all locked down, but we have two kids that we don't know where they are", she says then directing them to where people had heard gunshots, "Upstairs are a bunch of kids", she tells them. Rooms are searched, one by one by the three officers. Alarms are sounded in the school and one officer says, "It sounds like it's upstairs".

 

They enter a lobby area after climbing the stairs to the second floor. A barrage of gunfire follows. "Get your hands away from the gun", one officer orders. The video then shows the killer of children lying motionless on the floor. Her firearms were bought legally in the Nashville area. A search of her home saw a sawed-off shotgun, another shotgun and other evidence discovered.

"I doubt that there's anyone you can talk to who would even be able to answer why. It's not logical,"

"I'll never understand, it because it's not a logical thing to do. I'm very sad for the loss of my friend, and I'm very sad for the families and the loved ones of the victims."

"I'm very sad for her parents, because they lost their child." 

Anonymous High School friend

The Covenant School shooting victims (top row) Katherine Koonce, Mike Hill, Cynthia Peak, (bottom row) Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney.   From The Covenant School/Covenant Presbyterian Church/Facebook/KMOV/Dieckhaus Family