Webdesk: Before the shooting, Audrey Elizabeth Hale, a former student at a Christian primary school in Nashville, Tennessee, US, wrote messages to Averianna Patton, her former classmate.
Police murdered the heavily armed 28-year-old. The suspect had made extensive maps of the school, including entry locations, and left a “manifesto” and other writings, local police chief John Drake told reporters. The motive was unknown.
According to BBC News, Hale sent Patton a “depressed and desperate” Instagram message on Monday morning.
“She stated that I would see her on the news later on… and something awful was about to happen,” Ms Patton told BBC News.
According to the report, she called the local sheriff’s office immediately.
“I don’t know what she was battling… but I knew it was a mental thing,” Patton told BBC.
“Just something in my spirit, when she reached out, I just got into trying to call around make sure that I’m doing everything that I could.”
She told BBC News that “Hale did this.” It’s heavy.
Patton said officers reviewed Hale’s communications at her house that afternoon.
“I’m trying to wrap my head around what we’re going through as a city and find measures to avoid this from occurring again,” she said.
Nashville TV personality and influencer Patton said that she and the shooter were middle school basketball teammates.
Patton called the suspect “standoffish” at times.
Over time, the shooter kept in touch with comrades and attended Patton’s city activities.
Patton saw the shooter this month.
She’s left wondering why, like Nashville and the rest of the nation.
“I’m asking the same thing. I think you know, just we’ll never know. And I’m truly sorry. I would have never in a million years imagined this.”
