2023 Nashville school shooting
| 2023 Nashville school shooting | |
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Hale carrying a Kel-Tec SUB-2000 | |
| Location | Green Hills, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 36°05′35″N 86°49′32″W / 36.09306°N 86.82556°W |
| Date | March 27, 2023 10:11 – 10:24 a.m. (CDT; UTC−05:00) |
| Target | Students and staff at The Covenant School |
Attack type | Mass shooting, mass murder, school shooting, pedicide |
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| Deaths | 7 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 2 (1 by gunfire) |
| Perpetrator | Aiden Hale |
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On March 27, 2023, a mass shooting occurred at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian Church in America parochial elementary school in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee, when 28-year-old Aiden Hale (born Audrey Elizabeth Hale), a transgender man and former student of the school, killed three nine‑year‑old children and three adults before being shot and killed by two Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD) officers. It is the deadliest school shooting in Tennessee history.
In April 2025, the MNPD closed its investigation into the shooting, concluding that Hale had been motivated by a desire for notoriety and media attention. He targeted the school specifically because it was Christian.