Nashville school shooter’s identity may make them an exceptionally rare perpetrator
by Ed Pilkington from US news | The Guardian on (#6A8TF)
According to all recorded data, the US epidemic of mass shootings are committed overwhelmingly by cis males
In the immediate aftermath of Monday's gun rampage at a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, which left three nine-year-old children and three adults dead, local police described the shooter as a young female teenager.
Within hours that description had changed to that of a 28-year-old woman. And shortly after that, the authorities pivoted again, revealing that the shooter, Audrey Hale, had in recent times identified on social media, including a LinkedIn account, as a transgender male.
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