After Nashville’s Covenant School shooter, Audrey Hale shot and killed 6 people in Tennessee, the internet has developed a keen interest in the mass killer’s shoes.
According to an ongoing conspiracy on the internet, Hale was seen wearing different shoes when they were walking into the school to attack it compared to 14 minutes later when they were shot dead by the police on the second floor of the building.
Among the Twitter users who believed that the Nashville school shooter was wearing a certain pair of shoes while walking around the school campus, and appeared to change the same just before they were killed, was @JRobFromMN. The user tweeted images of Hale on the school campus along with a blurred image of Hale being shot at by the police.
Can someone please tell me I’m a crazy conspiracy theorist and offer a perfectly normal explanation as to why the Nashville shooter had one pair of shoes on when they walk in and a different pair on when they are killed? pic.twitter.com/79tw9usYcD
— Jason Robertson (@JRobFromMN) March 29, 2023
“Can someone please tell me I’m a crazy conspiracy theorist and offer a perfectly normal explanation as to why the Nashville shooter had one pair of shoes on when they walk in and a different pair on when they are killed?” the user wrote. The claim was that Hale was initially wearing Puma shoes which were changed to Vans when they were shot at.
However, the same has since been debunked online. Twitter user @robbystarbuck confirmed that the photos where it appeared as if Hale was wearing different shoes at separate timings, which were going viral, were digitally altered. The user elaborated that the Vans logo was clearly visible when Hale entered the school building and also explained why netizens thought that Hale was wearing Puma shoes.
There’s a conspiracy going around about the shoes of the Nashville shooter changing from Pumas to Vans. I want to address it because I got a lot of messages about it. It’s not true. I’ve debunked it below. You can see the Vans logo on the back of the shoes after she enters the… pic.twitter.com/Yw82V9emFw
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) March 29, 2023
“The screenshot being used to say they were Puma shoes was slightly believable on first glance for some without further investigation due to a combination of video compression artifacts and rolled up camo pants obstructing the full Vans line on the side of the shoe. The bright flames seen on another screenshot going around are digitally altered,” the user said.
