The Nashville highschool shooter was a Black teen revealed to have embraced neo-Nazi beliefs akin to being a “Groyper incel,” in keeping with his social media.
The male scholar who shot two fellow college students, killing one at a highschool in Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday morning (January 22) was revealed to be an African-American scholar who left a manifesto posted to social media displaying his embrace of white nationalism and self-hate. He was recognized as Solomon Henderson, a 17-year-old within the Reserve Officers Coaching Corp at Antioch Excessive Faculty. Henderson would take his personal life after the taking pictures.
The 300-page manifesto was posted to Henderson’s account on X, previously Twitter, 4 hours earlier than he walked into the cafeteria on the faculty at 11 A.M. Central time and fired a number of rounds with a pistol, killing 16-year-old Josselin Corea Escalante and grazing one 17-year-old unidentified male scholar. The doc confirmed that Henderson’s motivation for the taking pictures was a hatred of Black individuals. “I’m ashamed to be black. I really feel like s*** being a n******”, he wrote within the textual content.
One other message within the doc posted earlier than the incident learn, “God I’m ugly. 4 hours to go,” which was imposed over a photograph of Henderson. The doc additionally revealed that Henderson thought-about himself a “Groyper Incel,” a time period utilized by followers of the neo-Nazi determine Nick Fuentes and members of the involuntarily celibate motion. Henderson cited Fuentes as a significant affect, along with far-right determine Candace Owens and Kanye West aka Ye, together with different white nationalist mass murderers in inspiring his violence.
Henderson’s manifesto was additionally crammed with notes on his plans for the taking pictures, stating that he initially deliberate to commit the act on Thursday however moved it up as a result of he was terrified of “failing to kill myself or go to jail” and that he aimed to “kill no less than 10 individuals.” He additionally detailed his embrace of Neo-Nazi beliefs, writing: “We should assist the Aryans no matter our race.”
Henderson additionally was confirmed by police to have live-streamed the taking pictures on a number of platforms, together with Kick which shut down his account shortly after the incident. “We prolong our ideas to everybody impacted by this occasion,” the corporate mentioned in a press release on X, previously Twitter. “Violence has no place on Kick. We’re actively working with regulation enforcement and taking all acceptable steps to help their investigation.”
