Newly obtained recordings take us into the interview room with the parents of The Covenant School shooter.
This was only hours after the shooting, but it was the first opportunity for Metro Nashville Police Department detectives to understand why Audrey Hale was compelled to commit one of the worst school shootings in state history.
Covenant School students Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, were all killed in the shooting. Covenant staff members Cynthia Peak, Katherine Koonce, and Mike Hill, also died.
The shooter was dead by then, but police asked the shooter’s parents about Hale’s history of mental health issues long before the shooting.
You can hear that audio in the player above.
“Do any of the treatments she went through, any of the therapists, if you’re able to say so, did they ever express to you guys that she was having homicidal ideations or anything like that?” a detective asked.
“None of the therapists ever felt that they had a duty to warn anybody,” Hale’s father, Ronald Hale, responded.