An alleged portrait is beginning to emerge of the year-old boy who opened fire at his Nashville high school on Wednesday, killing one student and wounding a second student, according to police. Solomon Henderson, who was armed with a pistol, fired multiple shots in the cafeteria at Antioch High School around a. Henderson confronted a year-old girl, Josselin Corea Escalante, in the cafeteria and shot and killed her, Nashville Police Chief John Drake said at a news conference.
Another victim, a year-old boy, was injured with a graze wound and has been treated and released from the hospital, Drake said. The suspect died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head while he was in the cafeteria, police said.
Another student was transported to the hospital after suffering a facial injury from a fall, police said. The suspect rode the bus to school Wednesday morning and later went to the bathroom to "retrieve his weapon," Drake said. According to a detailed analysis conducted by SITE Intelligence, the suspected shooter praised mass shooters and showed an affinity for extremist views.
Online material allegedly written by Henderson "detailed the individual's apparent far-right politics, shaped by fringe online forums," SITE reported. Across these sites and his writings, Henderson expressed admiration for far-right and incel mass shooters," SITE reported. According to the intelligence group, Henderson claimed online that the school shooter in the Abundance Life Christian School attack in December, Samantha Rupnow, followed him on his X accounts.
Additionally, documents online allegedly written by Henderson "detail his admiration" of Christchurch, New Zealand shooter Brenton Tarrant, the suspect in the Slovakian gay bar shooting in and other mass shooters, according to SITE. The intelligence group reported that Henderson also appeared to "post photos of himself in attire commonly associated with neo-Nazis.
