NBC was criticized by victims’ families in 2007 for airing videos the Virginia Tech shooter mailed to the network in the midst of his killing spree. In other cases, killers have sent documents directly to news outlets, leaving them the decision of what to publish. Five months later, a man who killed 23 at a Texas Walmart published a racist diatribe on the same message board. In 2019, the white supremacist who killed 51 worshippers at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, posted his anti-immigrant screed online. Shooters sometimes release their writings themselves over the internet, prompting a race to suppress their spread. But there is no national standard governing if, or how, such writings are made public. The person who killed three 9-year-old children and three adults at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville on March 27 left behind at least 20 journals, a suicide note and a memoir, according to court filings. (AP) - In Tennessee, a request for police to release a school shooter’s private writings has morphed into a complex multiparty fight that pits the parents of traumatized students against a coalition of local news outlets, nonprofits, and a Republican lawmaker - with both sides claiming their position is in the public interest.
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