GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is calling for the Covenant School shooter’s manifesto to be released to the public.
It’s been more than 4 months since a trans psychopath shot & killed 6 innocent people at Covenant High School in Nashville. 4 months and still no answers. The FBI & local police committed to releasing the shooter’s written manifesto, but now they’re quietly reneging and trying to… pic.twitter.com/lapD7PEOfe
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) July 31, 2023
More than four months ago, on March 27, Audrey Elizabeth Hale, 28, opened fire at The Covenant Presbyterian School in the Green Hills neighborhood in Nashville. Hale, who identified as transgender, shot her way into the school through doors on the side of the building and gunned down six victims, three of which were children, before she was fatally shot by MNPD officers.
Shortly after the shooting, MNPD confirmed that a manifesto from the shooter was recovered. That manifesto has yet to be released to the public more than four months later.
“No lies are noble – especially when they come from our government. That’s why one of the lies I want to get to the bottom of is what’s really going on with the Nashville shooter manifesto,” Ramaswamy said in a video statement released Monday morning.
Noting that the FBI and local police initially committed to releasing Hale’s written manifesto, Ramaswamy said that the agencies are now “quietly reneging and trying to sweep this under the rug.”
“We deserve to know what happened. If not, we can expect far worse in the future…We need a government that starts telling the truth to its people again. This example in Nashville is just another case of hiding and sweeping beneath the rug,” the GOP presidential candidate further explained.
Ramaswamy further announced that he will host a press conference at the Davidson County Courthouse this week to call for the release of the manifesto.
Ramaswamy’s press conference is scheduled for Wednesday at 1 p.m. CT where he will be joined by Candace Owens, Shawn Ryan, and a group of local community leaders.
Star News Digital Media Inc., parent company of The Star News Network and The Tennessee Star, and Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO of Star News Digital Media and a resident of Tennessee, filed a federal lawsuit in May to secure release of the manifesto after the FBI denied multiple Freedom of Information Act Requests for the manifesto’s release.
Star News Digital Media, Inc. and Leahy are also plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed in the Tennessee state court system against Metro Nashville Davidson County to secure release of the manifesto. The Tennessee Firearms Association and The Tennessean are also plaintiffs in that case.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network.
