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Solomon Henderson: Everything we know about Nashville black teen named as Antioch High School shooter

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Nashville school shooter Solomon Henderson was an intelligent, but quiet 
student at Antioch High School where he was a member of the school's ROTC 
program before he opened fire on Wednesday.

The 17-year-old was described by an unidentified classmate to WKRN as a 
'smart person [at the] top of the class' who 'was quiet and to himself.'

He was also in the military training program, and may have had at least 
one 'prior incident' at the high school, Chief John Drake of the Metro 
Nashville Police Department said at a news conference - though he said he 
was unsure of the details.

The day on Wednesday started like any other, with Henderson arriving at 
the school in the Nashville suburb on a bus.

It is believed he then entered a bathroom, where he retrieved a weapon.

The teenager was then seen wearing a hoodie just after 11am, when he 
'confronted' Josselin Corea Escalante, 16, and fired multiple rounds using 
a pistol, before he turned the gun on himself.

Another student was also injured with a graze wound to her arm, and was 
rushed to Vanderbilt University Hospital in stable condition.

Police also said a fourth boy was being treated for an injury to the face 
caused during the commotion, but they were not shot, Channel 5 reports. 

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Metro Nashville Police Department spokesman Don Aaron said the department 
received its first call just two minutes after Henderson opened fire.

Two school resource officers were also inside the building, but were not 
in the immediate vicinity of the cafeteria, and by the time they arrived 
at the scene, Henderson had already killed himself. 

He livestreamed the shooting online, and had written on his X page that he 
saved up enough money to buy a GoPro camera 'but it was hard to explain to 
my parents why I needed it, so I couldn't buy it,' according to Raw Story. 

Following the shooting, school officials asked parents to pick up their 
kids at a nearby hospital - where they were busing teens after cops 
cleared them.

Escalante's father, German Corea, was then seen leaving the hospital with 
tears in his eyes, according to WSMV. 

He said he never would have imagined his eldest daughter wouldn't return 
home after she left for classes that morning.

'It's not fair,' Corea told News Channel 5 of his daughter's untimely 
death. 

It remains unclear whether the students were targeted, and a motive for 
the shooting remains unclear.

But a manifesto posted online purportedly belonging to the school shooter 
suggested he may have been influenced by racism at the majority black and 
Hispanic high school.

Chief Drake noted there were online materials that the police department 
is investigating. 

'There are some materials on the Internet that we're looking at, that's 
under investigation,' he said, according to The Tennessean.

'We believe there's some materials out there, and maybe they were seen,' 
he continued, adding that if someone 'said something, maybe more could 
have been done.' 

Terrifying footage showed the shooting unfold inside the cafeteria, with 
gunshots and screams echoing through the lunch room. 

An unidentified cameraman can be seen edging closer to the scene of the 
shooting then saying: 'Oh, he shot himself.'


The edge of what appears to be a person lying down on the tiled floor is 
visible for a moment before the clip ends. 

A student in the cafeteria at the time of the incident also described the 
terrifying scene.

'People in the cafeteria they use chip bags to make it sound like a gun, 
but it was repeatedly going off and I turned around and I saw the shooter 
shooting people I knew,' 12th grade student Ahmadsallah told WZTV.

'The shooter was kind of covered, he had a hoodie on. It was just a rush, 
it made me want to do something crazy I was trying to run out there and 
help people, but my mind was so cluttered, I didn't know what to do.

'There was a lot of screaming, a lot of terror. People were scared to die, 
there was running like someone was chasing them, like he was a monster 
just killing people.

'I feel relieved and safe but I feel bad for the victims who lost their 
lives,' he added.

Chante Frye, whose daughter is in ninth grade at the school, says she got 
a text from the youngster to say she'd been locked down inside her 
classroom.

'But it's almost not surprising because it's getting worse with the fights 
and the violence at school,' Frye told The Tennessean. 

Adrienne Battle, the superintendent of Nashville schools, said the 
district had already implemented a 'range of safety measures' including 
partnerships with the police for school resource officers, security 
cameras with weapon-detection software, shatter-resistant film for glass 
and security vestibules that provide a barrier between visitors and the 
main entrance.

'Unfortunately, these measures were not enough to stop this tragedy,' she 
lamented.

Battle also noted there were questions about installing metal detectors.

'While past research has shown they have had limitations and unintended 
consequences, we will continue to explore emerging technologies and 
strategies to strengthen school safety.'

In the meantime, police said they will conduct tests on the gun used in 
the shooting, and will search Henderson's home.

Antioch High School will also remain closed for the rest of the week. 

Comments:

TarnPacketBelt
Newyork, United States
5 hours ago

Switzerland has a very high gun ownership rate and yet an extremely low 
gun crime rate. How is that possible if guns are the problem?

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