Just over two years after three children and three staff members were killed at the Covenant School, the Metro Nashville Police Department closed the investigation believing the shooter's primary motive to be notoriety.

A summary of the police investigation, released two years after the attack, found that the shooter had spent years planning the violence and covering up mental health problems.

Audrey Hale didn’t care that The Covenant School was a Christian school. The 28-year-old woman wanted to kill children and get famous, Nashville police have concluded after a two-year criminal investigation into the March 2023 shooting that left three children and three staff members dead.