Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto Released by Steven Crowder: What We Know

Conservative social media personality Steven Crowder teased the release of a manifesto allegedly written by an accused school shooter in Nashville, Tennessee, where six victims died earlier this year.

In a video posted Monday to YouTube, Crowder said the manifesto was leaked and shared screenshots of portions of the document, which was believed to be written by Audrey Hale, 28, whom authorities identified as the shooter. They also said Hale, who died at the scene, once attended the school.

“I will be reading the manifesto here on this show. I wish that I wouldn’t have to,” Crowder said in the video.

In a post to X (formerly Twitter), Crowder shared other images of the manifesto, including one part that said, “I hope I have a high death count.”

Newsweek has been unable to independently verify that that manifesto was written by Hale. A Metro Nashville Police Department spokesperson told Newsweek that the police are unable to confirm the manifesto but said they are actively looking into the matter.

In March, Hale, 28, fatally shot three children and three adults at Nashville’s Covenant School. She later died from gunshot wounds after police responded to the incident. Shortly after the shooting occurred, police said that they had recovered a manifesto believed to have been written by Hale.

“The ongoing investigation into the March 27 murders of six persons inside The Covenant School continues to show, from all information currently available, that killer Audrey Hale acted totally alone,” the Metro Nashville Police Department said in a press release in April.

The release continued: “In the collective writings by Hale found in her vehicle in the school parking lot, and others later found in the bedroom of her home, she documented, in journals, her planning over a period of months to commit mass murder at The Covenant School.”

This is a developing news story and will be updated when more information becomes available.