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 the work of 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 the police are unable to confirm that Hale wrote the manifesto but said they are looking into the matter.

"We stand by our reporting," Crowder told Newsweek following the response from the Metro Nashville Police Department.

An FBI spokesperson told Newsweek: "As this matter is being addressed by the courts, the FBI will not be commenting on the reported documents."

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, police said that they had recovered a manifesto thought to have been written by Hale and that she identified as transgender.

"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."

Several other social media users also shared posts showcasing portions of the manifesto.

Conservative commentator Andy Ngo wrote on X, "BREAKING: I have reviewed the manifesto of the Nashville trans school shooter (scoop first obtained by @scrowder). Audrey 'Aiden' Hale expressed a violent hatred of those 'little crackers" [children] with "white privilege.'"

GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene reposted the photos from Crowder and said on X, "Every shooter's manifesto should be public. There is absolutely no reason to hide this. Unless of course our government wants to hide the fact that these shooters are on SSRIs and usually brainwashed by leftist's propaganda."

X user DC_Draino wrote on X: "This is why the DOJ suppressed the Nashville Manifesto. It shows how Leftist ideology radicalized a Trans shooter to murder Christian children. This was political terrorism & the Biden regime tried to cover it up We will not be silent after these children were slaughtered."

Update 11/6/23, 2:10 p.m. ET. This story has been updated with comments from Crowder and the FBI.