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Posted by: Azya Thornton on May 7, 2025

A Metro Nashville police whistleblower has been indicted on charges of stealing documents related to the Covenant School shooting, according to WPLN news. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents arrested retired Lt. Garet Davidson following a yearlong investigation. Nashville District Attorney Glenn Funk authorized the probe in June 2024 after the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) alleged Davidson may have leaked pages from the Covenant School assailant’s journal to the Tennessee Star news outlet. Davidson, who served in the department’s Office of Professional Accountability, also accused MNPD leadership of mishandling an internal investigation into an earlier leak and claimed he faced harassment and discrimination within the department. He was booked into the Davidson County jail on a $150,000 bond.