Just over two years after three children and three staff members were killed at the Covenant School, the Metro Nashville Police Department closed the investigation believing the shooter's primary motive to be notoriety.

The shooter behind the 2023 Nashville elementary school attack that killed six people, including three children, had been planning it for years while hiding their mental health issues from medical providers and hoping the carnage would bring notoriety and fame,

A summary of the police investigation, released two years after the attack, found that the shooter had spent years planning the violence and covering up mental health problems.