Former MNPD police officer due to leaky Covenant shooting documents

Nashville, Tenn. (WTVF) – A former lieutenant of the Metro Nashville Police Department was charged with two charges for official misconduct after allegedly taking up documents in connection with the shootout at school.

Garet Davidson was instructed with theft, two cases of burglary and 36 cases of official misconduct in Davidson County's prison. According to a press release from Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, six cases of misconduct were connected to the shootout at school.

Six people – including three children – died in March 2023 at the Covenant School shootout. The shooter died through the police. At the beginning of April this year, MNPD published a final report on the shootout with a 48-page summary of the executive.

“In the course of the investigation, the agents found that Davidson used his position as a lieutenant for the Office for Professional accountability in the Metro Nashville police authority in order to receive access to limited areas that he had not authorized to access within MNPD,” said the TBI in a press release. “Then he took several criminal matters, internal investigation cases, original case files and other documents that he could not keep.”

Davidson previously accused of misconduct against MNPD.

All of this began in November 2023, when the metro presented an examination of how some pages were leaked from the shooting magazines to a conservative podcaster. Davidson resigned from the Metro police next month.

In May 2024, Davidson published his report full of allegations against MNPD. Then Davidson gave an interview with New Schannel 5 to talk about the report.

“I hope that there are important changes in leadership,” said Davidson at the time.

The next day, June 4, Davidson appeared in Michael Patrick Leahy Show. Only instead of the allegations they mainly talked about the shooting documents of the federal lesson.

In November, the TBI confirmed an investigation by Davidson by searching his house in Robertson County.

Chris Davis' reporting contributed to this story.

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