Thursday, January 23, 2025 - The Nashville school shooter who killed a teenage girl before turning the gun on himself has been identified as 17-year-old Solomon Henderson.
He allegedly left a dark trail of hateful online postings
and appeared to be a “self-loathing incel,” according to the Anti-Defamation
League.
Solomon Henderson expressed a wide array of troubling views
in a purported manifesto and on social media before gunning down 16-year-old
Josselin Corea Escalante at Antioch High School on Wednesday, Jan. 22, ADL
representative Carla Hill told The Post Wednesday night.
“What happens on the incel forums … is that people of colour
are told the only reason they’re incels is because of their colour and so it
pushes them toward other extreme ideology that he apparently took on,” Hill
said.
“He picked up antisemitism, he posted a lot of anti-black
content because of that … internalized racism,” said Hill, who is senior
director of investigative research at the organization.
Metro Nashville police said Wednesday night that
investigators were probing “very concerning online writings and social media
posts” as they attempt to determine a motive behind the attack that was
partially streamed online.
Josselin Corea Escalante was fatally shot inside the
cafeteria of the school and another student was injured after being grazed in
the arm.
Henderson then fatally shot himself.
Alleged online writings reviewed by outlets included
Henderson stating that he “was ashamed to be black,” WTVF reported.
Other materials tied to Henderson obtained included a layout
of Antioch High School, photos of handguns and cartridges to load the weapon.
Henderson also posted antisemitic writings and posted a
flyer from the Goyim Defense League, which is a neo-Nazi white supremacy group,
WTVF reported.
“I was so miserable. I wanted to kill myself,” he also
allegedly wrote at one point.
“I just couldn’t take anymore. I am a worthless subhuman, a
living breathing disgrace. All my (in real life) friends outgrew me act like
they didn’t f–king know me. Being me was so f–king humiliating. That’s why I
spend all day dissociating.”
He also had a photo of the Covenant School
shooter who killed three children and three staffers in 2023 before also killing
herself.
Purported writings made by Henderson included
statements against “race-mixing” with a desire to “take revenge” on society.
Henderson also had statements praising Adolf Hitler and jarring photos from
past school shootings.
The ADL Center on Extremism reviewed the purported manifesto
and social media posts from the shooter, as well as a forum he allegedly
participated in that promoted white supremacy and accelerationism, which is the
desire to see a hastening to the collapse of modern society, according to the
civil rights organization.
“He’s in an incel forum that’s telling him he’s an incel
because he’s black, no one wants you because you’re black,” Hill, of the ADL,
said of one online space.
Henderson was also part of a g0re forum where mass killers
of all ideologies are often celebrated, including the recent Madison, Wisconsin
shooter, according to the ADL.
The shooter partially livestreamed the shooting on the online platform Kick, according to the company.
Watch a video of the aftermath of the shooting below.
Tragedy at Antioch High School, Nashville, TN: A heartbreaking shooting in the school cafeteria left 2 dead, including 16-year-old Josselin Corea Escalante, and 2 injured. pic.twitter.com/9AMp7jwnob
— Pulse Gazette (@PulseGazette) January 23, 2025
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