BREAKING: Nashville shooter’s manifesto release to be DELAYED ‘pending litigation’: police

"Covenant investigation update: Due to pending litigation filed this week, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department has been advised by counsel to hold in abeyance the release of records related to the shooting at The Covenant School pending orders or direction of the court," the Nashville police said.

It was only a week ago that the Metro Nashville Police Department’s Public Information Office said "The investigation has advanced to the point that writings from the Covenant shooter are now being reviewed for public release. That process is underway and will take a little time."

Metro Nashville Council Member Courtney Johnston said that per her sources, Hale's manifesto was "a blueprint on total destruction," adding that "it was so, so detailed at the level of what [Hale] had planned." For these reasons, Johnston cautioned against releasing it in full, saying that redactions were necessary because "in the wrong person's hands would be astronomically dangerous."

Hale, who killed 3 children and 3 adults after driving to the school, which she had attended, in March, had left behind extensive documentation as to the reasons for her actions. In the hours leading up to the shooting, Hale had contacted a friend and told her that the reasons for her pending actions would be made known. She did not specifiy what those actions were.

There was much speculation after Hale's massacre as to why she had undertaken such a bloody crime, which led to her own death. There has been speculation that Hale's intention was to push back against Christians, who she may have seen as a threat to her trans ideology.