‘Resentment’ may have driven Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale: chief

Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale may have been driven to kill by “resentment,” according to the city’s top cop.

Police have said Hale was a former student at the Covenant School, a private Christian elementary school, where Hale slaughtered three 9-year-old students and three adults Monday morning before police closed in and killed her.

But they have yet to pinpoint a clear motive.

“There’s some belief that there was some resentment for having to go to that school,” Police Chief John Drake told NBC News’ Lester Holt on Monday evening. “Don’t have all the details to that just yet and that’s why this incident occurred.”

At an earlier press conference, Drake said Hale identified as transgender, though police referred to her as a woman.