SHE HATED BEING A GIRL; SHE HATED HER SCHOOL.

Nashville - sneakers, camouflage pants, red baseball cap on backward. Footage from surveillance cameras at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, shows the horrifying attack. In the middle of a hallway stands Audrey Hale (28), dark vest, heavily armed, holding a black rifle.

Three dead children. Three deceased school employees. Again a terrible bloody deed shook the USA. Police identified Audrey Elizabeth Hale, 28, as the shooter. But, according to investigators, she is said to have gone to school earlier and felt like a man.

It becomes clear: the 28-yearold had a detailed plan for the killing spree. Police Chief John Drake: “We have a manifesto; we have some writings that we’re going through that relate to that date, the actual incident.” And: “We have a map.”

She is said to have drawn them, marked possible entrances and exits, and scouted the site in an affluent area of Tennessee before the crime. Motive? It may be due to the 28-yearold’s school days. The police chief told NBC that investigators believe the shooter had “a certain resentment about going to this school.”

The first emergency call was received by the police shortly after 10 a.m. local time (just after 5 p.m. in Germany). When officers arrived, they were shot at. The 28-year-old fired from windows on the first floor of the school building and hit emergency vehicles. “When the officers got to the second floor, they saw a gunman, a woman, who was shooting,” said one officer. Then, 14 minutes later, the attacker was killed by police officers.

They found three weapons on her: two rifles and a Smith & Wesson pistol (9 mm caliber) from the M&P Nine Shield EZ model series, built for self and home security—cost point: around 600 US dollars. The weapons were covered with stickers on the buttstock of one of the guns that read “Aiden,” as Hale called himself on the Internet, among other things. According to the police, she had bought the guns legally.

After the crime, investigators flew into Hale’s house and, according to “ABC,” blew up an entrance. Inside: Two more shotguns.

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