FBI yet to say whether Covenant killer’s Manifesto pages constitute hate crime

The FBI refuses to comment on whether Covenant killer Audrey Hale's leaked manifesto pages constitute a hate crime. 

Hale opened fire on a private Christian school in Tennessee earlier this year, killing six people. 

Pages of the manifesto were published by conservative commentator Steven Crowder last week.

On a page dated Feb. 3, 2023, Hale wrote: "Wanna kill all you little crackers!!! Bunch of little f*gg*ts w/ your white privileges [sic]."

The notebook has been authenticated but the material published is selective, according to The Tennessee Star, one of the news agencies that sued the FBI earlier this year for access to the memo. 

The FBI would not say whether investigation into the killing and the leaked manifesto pages were being investigated as a hate crime. 

“As this matter is being addressed by the courts, the FBI will not be commenting on the reported documents,” Elizabeth Clement-Webb, Public Affairs and Community Engagement officer for the FBI’s Memphis Field Office told the outlet in a Monday email. 

A spokeswoman for Metropolitan Nashville Police Department told The Tennessee Star that she wasn’t sure whether Hale’s actions would be classified under the state’s hate crime enhancer law due to her being dead. 

Hale died the day of the shooting when police came on the scene.