Pastor walks back claim Audrey Hale was undergoing counseling with man whose daughter she killed
By Stephanie Pagones
March 30, 2023 11:59amA former pastor at the school where Nashville shooter Audrey Hale killed six people on Monday claimed she was being couseled by Chad Scruggs, the father of one of the victims, only to later say he had been mistaken.
Jim Bachmann said in an interview with Inside Edition that Hale appeared to be searching for Scruggs, the current pastor at the Covenant School, in surveillance footage the police released.
However, when approached by The Post on Wednesday, Bachmann said he had since realized he was wrong.
“I understand that they were not counseling, actually,” Bachmann said.
“I think there’s just some confusion because she had, years earlier.
“But these last two days, I’ve had several messages from an assortment of people that not only was there no counseling between those two, that he didn’t even know her,” Bachmann said.
Bachmann confirmed that representatives from Covenant, a private Christian school, had been in touch to tell him him he was incorrect, and added that he had been influenced by social media and the way he had perceived surveillance video of Hale released by the police.
He added that since making the claims, he had been contacted by various people who worked at the school who had assured him that Scruggs was not counseling Hale.
One of Hale’s victims was 9-year-old Hallie Scruggs, the current pastor’s daughter.
Bachmann said he reached out to Scruggs after the tragedy and he had texted him back saying “God is good.” Scruggs did not reach out to Bachmann following his interview.
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