Covenant School Shooter’s Journal Provides Glimpse Into the Mind of a Killer

‘The day has finally come. I can’t believe it’s here,’ Audrey Hale wrote in an entry from the day of the mass school shooting.

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Covenant School parents and their attorneys huddle in prayer outside a courtroom before a hearing to decide whether documents and journals of a Nashville school shooter can be released to the public. AP/Travis Loller

The journal of the infamous Covenant School Killer, in which the mass shooter mused about having “no regrets by the gun,” was released to the public on Tuesday by a Tennessee-based news outlet.

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