The woman suspected of shooting dead six people in a horror massacre at a US school has been pictured.
Audrey Elizabeth Hale, 28, was killed by police at the scene and has since been confirmed as the shooter who shot dead six people at the Covenant School in Tennessee.
Images have emerged that appear to show Hale, who police said was transgender, though officials are yet to formally release any photograph of the shooter.
Police had searched her house and found a detailed map of the school, including potential entry points, and evidence she had clearly done surveillance before the shooting.
Authorities also described her as a "lone zealot", who had written a manifesto ahead of the attack.
Hale is believed to be a former student at The Covenant School in Nashville, where she used two assault rifles and a pistol to kill six.
Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake said: “We have a manifesto, we have some writings we’re going over that pertain to this day, the actual incident.
“We have a map drawn out of how this was all going to take place.
“There’s right now a theory that we may be able to talk about later but it’s not confirmed, and so we’ll put that out as soon as we can.”
The three children killed were Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all 9 years old.
The adults killed were identified as Cynthia Peak, 61, a substitute teacher, Mike Hill, 61, a janitor, and Katherine Koonce, 60, who was the head of the school.
Police, who previously said the female gunman appeared to be in her teens, have revealed the woman was gunned down by officers who engaged her on the second floor of the Covenant School in Nashville, where she was firing on staff and students in a lobby.
Meanwhile, it has also emerged that the mum of the woman identified as the Nashville school shooter had vehemently campaigned to prevent mass shootings in the classroom.
Audrey Hale’s mum urged her friends to join her in signing petitions to ‘Keep Guns Out of Schools” and “Make large-capacity gun magazines illegal’ on her Facebook page.
Devout Christian Norma Fort Hale, a church worker, told her followers backing the campaigns was “so important”
She made the pleas to her friends in February and March, spurred on by the tragic 2012 Sandy Hook massacre in which 26 pupils and staff were shot dead by Adam Lanza.
