Mass Casualty Events Are Not Always What You Think | Nashville Part III
Case closed?
This is the third part of a deep dive into the Nashville shooting at Covenant School. You should peruse the first part here and the second part here before proceeding. This part is inspired by my follower Jim who sent me some additional findings that I will relay to you here. Many thanks to him.
I have personally noticed a pattern with orchestrated events. Most of the people who end up being key players in the “official story” fall under one or more of the following categories:
Artists/performers or aspiring artists/performers
Mainstream media
Criminals (with records)
People with close ties to Washington D.C. (intelligence, lobbying, activism, etc.)
Another sign of a manufactured event are the GoFundMe fundraisers that pop up before the alleged bodies are even cold. Sometimes, we even get unemotional interviews from friends and/or family way to soon after what is meant to be an extremely traumatic event.
The Beasley Family
In my first piece on the Nashville shooting, I pointed out that gun control activist Ashbey Beasley just happened to be on vacation in Nashville and just happened to be headed to lunch with her gun control activist friend Shaundelle Brooks.
Beasley is also well aware that people are watching her moves. She has pointed it out on her Facebook page.
Not only does she fall under the aforementioned category that includes activists, but Beasley also falls under the artist category. Going by what I presume to be her maiden name, Ashbey has remnants of a former family photography and film studio in Chicago. The website has been down for some time now but the Vimeo remains. Ashbey’s husband, Richard “Chip” Beasley is also a filmmaker and had his own media company. At the time of writing this, his Vimeo is still up, he has a profile on a film professionals website called Stage32, and his LinkedIn page says he was a freelance journalist for a few years. The couple also had a short-lived endeavor called The Human Love Project meant to be an “interactive social experiment that was created to find how alike we are.” These days, Ashbey Beasley is much more interested in divisive wedge issues. On top of all of that, Ashbey was a contributing writer with The Huffington Post so we can tick the mainstream media box as well.
In 2020, the now '“anti-racism activist” Beasley made waves when she was allegedly told about counter-protestors at a BLM event and drove all the way to Lake Forest to confront conservatives of a group formerly known as the Lake Bluff Militia. At a Trump rally later that year, Beasley would organize a counter-protest of her own, but she tells the story as if the parade was specifically organized to harass her at her home.
After allegedly surviving a shooting on July 4th in Highland Park, the Beasley family would gravitate towards the media in their city.
Chip would go on to write about gun control and Ashbey would make several appearances on mainstream news channels. That fall, Ashbey would pop up at a Lindsey Graham event to confront him about the abortion ban citing a baby she lost due to a prenatal anomaly she was made aware of 16 weeks into her pregnancy.
Most recently, she covered her Nashville media tour as a contributor for USA Today in an article linking gun control to the opioid crisis. Who is this person?!? She wouldn’t be everywhere if she wasn’t useful.
Jason Hoffman
The “Good Samaritan” witness Jason Hoffman—who was there when actress Melissa Joan Hart was allegedly helping small children that were running into oncoming traffic—made appearances on CNN and News Nation where he shared some unconvincing footage. Ironically, Jason owns Music City Aerial, a professional drone videography and photography company whose client list just so happens to include NBC. Well, it looks like he ticks a couple boxes, too.
GoFundMe Pages
The fundraiser for the Kinney family, posted just the day after the incident, quickly blew past the $20,000 goal, exceeding more than 10 times that.
It’s interesting to note that there are several anonymous high-dollar donors. It’s not damning, but it sure does raise eyebrows. Premier Radiology and the Tennessee Radiological Society are two of the top donors, but it’s unsurprising considering the mother is a doctor.
The organizer of this page is Rachel Freitas, formerly an actress represented by CAA known as Rachel Kahne. She was also a Press Office Aide at The White House during George W. Bush’s tenure and was later the Press Site Lead for the McCain/Palin campaign of 2008.
Also launched the day after the alleged tragedy is this page for Evelyn Dieckhaus, which blew past the initial goal set at $10,000. Evelyn is known as the girl who was shot as she pulled the fire alarm (heard in the body cam footage) trying to save her classmates. This story is oddly reminiscent of Sandy Hook’s Jesse Lewis who, according to law enforcement, sacrificed himself by shielding several of his classmates from gunfire. Evelyn also has a parent that is a doctor.
The organizer of this fundraiser is Jill Talbert who is a lobbyist that has operated Talbert Government Relations LLC for over a decade.
The family of Hallie Scruggs had two friends that also started a highly successful fundraiser the day after the event. Hallie’s father is a pastor at the Covenant Presbyterian Church and her mother is a calligraphy artist who works on weddings and collaborates with a water color artist.
Co-organizer Misty Hamilton has her own “photography and storytelling” company and her fellow organizer Shannon Hudson Cowart is a realtor whose husband is a photographer, painter and graphic designer. He’s taken the portrait of Barack Obama and his client list includes ABC, FOX and CNN. *tick* *tick*
The GoFundMe for substitute teacher Cindy Peak came two days later and was organized by the Kappa Alpha Order Nu fraternity chapter at Auburn University—known as the old school trust fund kids. Cindy’s son Matthew appears to be part of that frat. Her husband Chris is a territory manager for JOSCO, a company that provides sales, marketing and analytics services to major automotive and home improvement retailers. Cindy was apparently good friends with Tennessee Governor Bill Lee’s wife, Maria, who, according to the Democratic governor, taught alongside her many years ago.
Covenant School custodian Mike Hill’s GoFundMe was not only the fastest to pop up—launching the same day as his alleged death—but it has pulled in a jaw-dropping $618,249 with a slew of $5,000 anonymous donations at the time of this writing. Organizer Anne Puricelli is the director of marketing at Middleby Residential and is the co-owner/co-founder of the Nashville Design Collective for home decor. Nashville-based Steven J. Puricelli (presumably her husband) is a former supply chain executive who had clients in defense.
Nowadays, he is a partner at World Economic Forum collaborator PwC where he focuses on sales and asset development. He also had time to be a photographer at some point, although his website doesn’t seem to point anywhere. Who knew Nashville had so many photographers, amirite?!?
The school’s fallen headmaster Katherine Koonce doesn’t appear to have a GoFundMe, but there is a general fundraiser for Covenant victims approaching a half million in raised funds and The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee is also raising money for survivors.
Dr. Britney Grayson
Now, we move on to our grand finale. A missionary named Dr. Britney Grayson allegedly visited with children at the Covenant School mere minutes before the incident. She posted an 8-part Twitter thread, sharing her feelings about what went down. The first tweet included a photo of her interacting with a class, but she later deleted the tweet.
Whatever you say, doc. Let’s have a look at the rest of the thread, shall we?
She knew exactly what time she drove away? Impressive. But doc, did you know the shooter approached the building at 10:10am and opened fire at a pair of glass doors at 10:11am? Surely, you heard or maybe even saw something? No? Nothing? Okay. Good talk.
You were literally still there.
I don’t know? Are they? When people ask for hard evidence of this very strange phenomenon, it seems to be too sensitive of a subject to release any tangible proof.
Have you now? Not recently I’m guessing, seeing that you have been working in Kenya as of late.
Apparently there was only one survivor injured. Hmm.
She’s really personalizing this isn’t she? “Jambo” is a greeting in Swahili.
Ah, here we go. Look at all those organizations. I know when I think about saving children’s lives, I definitely think about supporting military contractor and shadowy think tank RAND. I’m surprised she didn’t throw in March For Our Lives for good measure.
Now, let’s have a look at that picture Dr. Grayson deleted. Did she really delete it because it “was not ours to share in light of the terribly senseless tragedy that followed” or because there were clues in that photo that she—or someone else—didn’t want us to see?
First, if we follow Officer Engelbert’s body cam footage, the opening dialogue with the officer and a woman outside is as follows:
“The kids are all locked down, but we have two kids that we don’t know where they are,” she tells police.
“OK, yes, ma’am,” Engelbert replies.
The woman then directs officers to Fellowship Hall and says people inside had just heard gunshots. “Upstairs are a bunch of kids,” she says.
Right off the bat, it’s impressive that this woman calmly standing outside the school has a headcount for all the classes, but I’ll let this one fly. She notes that there are a bunch of kids upstairs, but in the body cam footage you never see or hear a single child. Not one.
Comparing this frame to Dr. Grayson’s photo, it appears that the silver MacBook has been swapped out with a black laptop. You’ll see the tall chair behind it as a familiar reference point. I don’t think poor lighting is a good enough excuse in this instance. Also, where are the papers and trim we see affixed to the whiteboard in Dr. Grayson’s photo? The shamrock behind her suggests maybe the photo was taken earlier in March.
The second classroom they clear is way too tidy to have been in use by children just moments before. Did they just dress the other classroom attempting to match the photo they knew would be released?
For the rest of my body cam analysis, refer to my first post. The results from the poll on this post are in…
I have no evidence to dispute this outcome. That about does it, folks.
Wow Ricky. Amazing work, so obvious