, documents produced or received by government agencies conducting public business become public records unless they fall into an exempted category.However, with the shooter dead, attorneys for the NPA and other groups behind similar lawsuits argue there is no active law enforcement proceeding.
Earlier this week, the school involved itself in the lawsuit, seeking redactions on some documents, including Hale’s hand-drawn maps of the school. “The manifesto really has to be analyzed to the nth degree,” he told Fox News Digital. “Hopefully, it will give us some answers because he is a rare mass murderer, in being declaring himself a male – and we haven’t seen this before.”“He totally believed certain parts of society were the cause of negative events in his life,” Kelly said. “I think we’ll see this in the manifesto.”
Hale had no prior criminal record but was under a doctor’s care for an unspecified emotional disorder, according to police.Metropolitan Nashville Police De/AFP via Getty Images