2023 Nashville school shooting
| 2023 Nashville school shooting | |
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A CCTV still of Hale, carrying his pistol-caliber carbine, walking around the second floor of the school during the shooting | |
| Location | 36°05′35″N 86°49′32″W / 36.09306°N 86.82556°W Green Hills, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| 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 |
| Motive | |
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, United States, when 28-year-old Aiden Hale (born Audrey Elizabeth Hale), a transgender man, killed three nine‑year‑old children and three adults before being shot and killed by two Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD) officers. Hale was a former student of the school who had been planning the attack for years. 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 numerous factors, including a desire for notoriety and media attention. Hale had chosen The Covenant School because he considered the years he attended the school to be the happiest of his life and he wanted to die somewhere that made him happy.