It’s been 17 hours since Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old woman who identified as transgender, shot her way into a Christian grade school and killed six people, including three 9-year-olds — but the Department of Justice doesn’t seem to care.
The DOJ has yet to acknowledge the tragedy even happened, despite Attorney General Merrick Garland previously issuing same-day statements in response to mass shootings. After a shooter murdered 21 people in a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school last May, Garland rightly slammed the “act of unspeakable violence.”
“The Justice Department is committed to providing our full support to our law enforcement partners on the ground in Texas and to the Uvalde community,” Garland promised.
After a gunman killed 10 people at a Buffalo, New York grocery store the same month, the DOJ issued a similar day-of statement, adding that “The Justice Department is investigating this matter as a hate crime and an act of racially-motivated violent extremism,” due to racist sentiments the shooter had posted on social media.
But despite the depravity of yesterday’s bloodbath in Nashville and the red flags hinting at Hale’s motive, the DOJ doesn’t seem interested in investigating why a mentally unstable transgender person might shoot up a Christian school.
Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake told reporters that Hale, a former student of the school, had a “manifesto” relating to the shooting as well as a “map drawn out of how this was all going to take place.” Drake also confirmed the shooting was a “targeted attack.”
