An alleged transgender cyberstalker in Tennessee who made threatening remarks directed at a Christian school was freed by a federal judge.
A transgender-identifying woman named McKenzie McClure, who goes by Kalvin McClure, has been calling Nashville, Tennessee’s Christ Presbyterian Academy (CPA) with alarming abandon. The call was placed in March of this year, a few days before the anniversary of the Covenant School shooting, in which six people were killed, three of whom were nine-year-olds.
Former CPA student McClure mentioned a Marvel film in which a man kills an abusive headmaster by returning to the orphanage where he was nurtured. McClure left a voicemail for the school. The message led to the closure of nearby Currey Ingram Academy and CPA the next day. A month later, federal investigators detained McClure on suspicion of cyberstalking.
The school’s security cameras also seemed to capture McClure making lewd gestures while strolling about campus in the days preceding her arrest.
Magistrate Judge Chip Frensley of the U.S. District Court has now freed McClure from federal prison. At the Pasadena Villa mental health facility in East Tennessee, where McClure was being held, the judge heard testimony from mental health doctors. According to the experts, McClure is taking her medication now, has stopped having delusions, and is feeling regret.
Nonetheless, a parent who works as a CPA clarified that he requested that the court maintain the accused cyberstalker in federal custody. He said to The Tennessee Star, “I didn’t think there would be any response that could stop her if she was determined.”
McClure will now receive out-patient care while living at home with her parents near the school.