

Solomon Henderson Antioch school shooter was in contact with Nashville Christian school shooter, Natalie Samantha Rupnow as self hating incel followed Wisconsin shooter, with both revering extreme ideologues and expressing fascination with other school shooters. Both were known in extreme forums.
A 17 year old self hating incel who fatally gunned down a female student at his Nashville, Tennessee area high school on Wednesday before killing himself appears to have been in contact with fellow Christian school shooter Natalie ‘Samantha’ Rupnow, who fatally gunned down two fellow classmates last month before also killing herself.
The online accounts of Solomon Henderson, the 17 year old ‘top student’ alleged to have gunned down 16-year-old girl Wednesday, Josselin Corea Escalante, showed ties with Rupnow, the 15-year-old who also killed herself after fatally shooting two teens at her school in Madison, Wisconsin, law enforcement sources told ABC News.
The Antioch High School shooter was seen commenting under Samantha Rupnow’s post before she started shooting, this is all connected pic.twitter.com/7AOUgIsRqO
— Lanza (@TheLanza00) January 23, 2025
Shared fascination of extreme ideologues and other school shooters
Rupnow even appears to have been following Henderson online before she died — a month before he also shot up his Christian school more than 600 miles from her, the sources said.
A Bluesky account linked to Henderson also posted an edited image of Rupnow a day before the shooting, the outlet said, without making clear which of the attacks it meant.
Another post on the same Bluesky account mentioned intentions of carrying out a shooting with a second person that day, the report said, again without making clear if it meant Rupnow’s attack in December or Henderson’s school shooting this week.
Both teens died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds after carrying out separate shootings — along with both teens showing interest in neo-Nazi ideology and violence in their online search histories, ABC News reported.
Henderson belonged to online communities that promote violence and extremism, police sources revealed to ABC, with some people in those groups publicly identifying Henderson as the school shooter long before his identity was confirmed by authorities.
Of note, both Henderson and Rupnow also revered other school shooters, with both posting about the massacre at Parkland, Florida.
Henderson also made Pinterest posts about the horror at Uvalde, Texas, while Rupnow posted about the Columbine school shooting, according to the outlet.
Henderson purportedly posted a 51-page manifesto expressing hatred towards Jewish people and self-hatred as a black person, which he blamed for him being an incel, a male unable to gain sexual validation from a female.
Henderson carried out the shooting just after 11 a.m. Wednesday at Antioch High School – about 45 minutes southeast of downtown Nashville – where he “confronted” 16-year-old Josselin Corea Escalante and shot her multiple times, killing her. It remained unclear if the teen had specifically targeted the 16 year old girl and if so, why?
One other student was hit in the arm and was taken to the hospital, while another suffered a face injury that wasn’t from the gun. Henderson then turned the gun on himself.
An artificial intelligence system meant to detect weapons at Antioch High School failed to spot the gun, according to Metro Nashville Public Schools.
‘In this case, the system didn’t work because of where the shooter was and the position of the gun,’ school district spokesperson Sean Braisted said Thursday. He added that the system did go off later when armed officers entered the school.