• Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale sent a friend, former middle school basketball teammate Averianna Patton, a chilling “suicide note” minutes before murdering three children and three adults.
• “So basically that post I made on here about you, that was basically a suicide note. I’m planning to die today,” Hale wrote. 
• “THIS IS NOT A JOKE!!!” wrote Hale, who identified as transgender. “You’ll probably hear about me on the news after I die.”
• Patton tried to comfort Hale and contacted the Suicide Prevention Help Line minutes before Hale shot out the front doors of the school.
• Patton later learned that Hale was the shooter at The Covenant School.

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