The Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) is investigating after an unidentified man was allegedly captured on video trespassing on the campus of Covenant Presbyterian Church and School on two suspected occasions beginning last month.
On Friday, MNPD released four photos of the suspect, who is seen on surveillance video wearing a hooded sweatshirt and carrying a video camera, allegedly trespassing on the church and school’s property in the 1:00 a.m. hour earlier that day.
This man, carrying a video camera, trespassed on the Covenant Church campus at 1 a.m. today videoing & taking selfies. He's suspected of trespassing inside the church just after midnight on 12/26 before an alarm caused him to run out. Know him? Please call 615-742-7463. REWARD pic.twitter.com/s6CClvlpCy
— Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) January 9, 2026
The suspect, MNPD said, “appeared to take photos and videos of the campus as well as selfies in front of the building before walking away toward a wooded area.”
MNPD said the suspect’s presence at Covenant on Friday was the second time an individual has been caught on surveillance video trespassing on the campus, with the first occurrence taking place shortly after midnight on Friday, December 26.
During the December incident, according to MNPD, the individual caught on surveillance footage was seen carrying a camera and entering the church building through an unsecured door, when they proceeded to walk through the church until tripping an alarm and immediately fleeing once the alarm sounded.
MNPD said it believes both occurrences involve the same individual and is asking the public for help in identifying the male suspect.
Those with any identifying information about the suspect are asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 615-742-7463.
MNPD is offering a cash reward for information leading to the identity of the suspect.
The trespassing incidents come nearly three years after the Covenant School was the site of a deadly shooting on March 27, 2023, when 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale, a biological woman who identified as a transgender man, gunned down six inside the school before being fatally shot by MNPD officers.
The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy, Executive Editor Christina Botteri, and Lead Reporter Tom Pappert were nominated for the prestigious 2025 Dao Prize for The Star’s series on the Covenant Killer Manifesto.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
Image “Man Recording Covenant Grounds” by Metro Nashville P.D.
