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The mom of the transgender school shooter who murdered six people including three nine-year-olds at a Nashville private school Monday said ‘I think I just lost my daughter’ – as her own calls for increased gun control emerged.
Norma Hale spoke to ABC News shortly after her daughter Audrey Hale, 28, was named as the shooter.
She said: ‘It’s very, very difficult right now. I think I lost my daughter today.’ Norma then requested privacy as her family struggles to cope with the magnitude of her late daughter’s actions.
Hale was born female, and is believed to have been living as a man called Aiden. But Nashville officials continue to refer to the killer using female pronouns. They’ve also released footage of Hale carrying out the rampage, as well as images of three of the guns she used to do so.
Hale left a detailed manifesto and plan for the shooting at her home, and another in her car. Cops have yet to disclose its contents or a motive, but Nashville Metro PD Chief John Drake told NBC News he believed ‘resentment’ lay at the core of her behavior.
Norma’s own posts decrying school shootings and calling for increased gun control have emerged in the wake of Hale’s massacre at the school she once attended.
On February 21, 2018, she posted a petition to make large-capacity gun magazines illegal to her page as a response to the horrors at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.