Josh Hawley Urges Biden Administration to Open Hate Crime Investigation into Christian School Shooting

Ashley Sadler : Apr 4, 2023
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"The full resources of the federal government must be brought to bear to determine how this crime occurred, and who may have influenced the deranged shooter to carry out these horrific crimes. Hate that leads to violence must be condemned." -Sen. Josh Hawley

(Washington, DC) — [LifeSiteNews.com] US Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri on Tuesday called on the Biden administration's FBI and Department of Homeland Security to open a hate crime investigation into the horrific Monday shooting at a Nashville, Tennessee Christian school carried out by a 28-year-old woman who identified as transgender. (Screengrab image)

In a letter addressed to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Hawley cited statements from the Nashville Metro Police indicating that the brutal shooting at private Christian Covenant School, which left three nine-year-old children and three school staff members dead, had been a "targeted" attack.

"It is commonplace to call such horrors 'senseless violence,'" Hawley said in his letter to Wray and Mayorkas. "But properly speaking, that is false. Police report that the attack here was 'targeted'—targeted, that is, against Christians."

Police have identified 28-year-old Audrey Hale, a woman who reportedly "identified" as a man, as the perpetrator of the Monday shooting rampage, LifeSiteNews previously reported... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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