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School yearbook photographs have revealed trans mass killer Audrey Hale in her teenage years beaming alongside her basketball teammates - as former players speak out about her 'obsessive and stalkerish' behavior. 

During her time at Isaiah T. Creswell Middle School in Nashville, Hale, 28, was part of the successful Lady Comets hoops team. Hale's coach Antoine Buchanan told The Tennessean that Hale was 'bench warmer' who would only play if the team was 'really winning' or 'really losing.' 

In the wake of the Nashville mass murder this week, which left six people including three nine-year-olds dead, former teammates have now spoken out about trans school shooter Audrey Hale's odd behavior. 

Mia Phillips told The Tennessean the killer was 'shy' but that the team had 'befriended' her during their time playing together. After the pair went their separate ways to different high schools, Phillips said Hale persistently messaged her on social media and once found an email sent from an account that had just been set up. 

'I'm trying to be as respectful and also as honest as possible. It felt obsessive. It felt like stalkerish behavior,' Phillips told the newspaper. 

Investigators have not disclosed what motivated Hale to kill students Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all 9 years old as well as Katherine Koonce, 60, the head of the school; substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, 61; and Mike Hill, a 61-year-old custodian at the Covenant School in Nashville on Monday. 

In her interview with The Tennessean, Mia Phillips described an incident from February 2022 when Hale pretended to be drunk at a party despite not consuming any drinks. 

'Everybody was confused. It was just rubbing us in a weird way of, like, giving us a really negative feeling. It didn't feel right,' she said. 

After Phillips left the party, Hale texted her in a coherent manner asking her to come back. 

Following the death of one of their teammates, Sidney Sims, 22, in August 2022 following a car accident, Phillips said Hale followed her to her car in order to continue hanging out. 

'I was expressing to her that it was not the time or the place, that we were all grieving,' Phillips told the newspaper. 

Another former teammate of both Hale and Patton's called 911 on the day of the tragedy after she received disturbing Instagram messages from the killer. 

After receiving one particular message from Hale saying: 'I'm planning to die today – you'll probably hear about me on the news', Patton called a suicide hotline, which then encouraged her to contact the authorities to alert them to the situation.

In her 911 call at around 10:12am - when armed officers had already arrived on the scene - she said: 'I'm just trying to see if anybody can help. I just don't want it on my conscience.

'If somebody can go check on her - the only thing I have is her Instagram. Can I give you her Instagram so y'all can find her or track her that way?'

Hale's former basketball teammate was told there was nothing officers could do to help without an address for the gunman.

But the Metropolitan Nashville Police has confirmed to Fox17 that at the time of the call, police were already arriving at the private Christian school to tackle the shooter.

Hale, who went by both Audrey and Aiden, had already shot and killed six people by the time police arrived.

At 9.57am, 16 minutes before cops were first notified of the shooting, Audrey wrote: 'So basically that post I made on here about you, that was basically a suicide note.

'I'm planning to die today. THIS IS NOT A JOKE!!! You'll probably hear about me on the news after I die.

'This is my last goodbye. I love

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