

Solomon Henderson, Antioch High School shooting suspect described as self hating black incel in 47 page manifesto which celebrated other school shootings. Shooting left gunman and Josselin Corea Escalante dead & two others injured.
A 17 year old student gunman who allegedly killed a fellow student and injured another two before taking his own life at a school cafeteria in Nashville, Tennessee purportedly left behind an online manifesto documenting the reasons behind Wednesday’s attack.
Solomon Henderson prior to going on a shooting at Antioch High School left a 47 page manifesto online showing a layout of the school, photos of a handgun, a lock picking kit and cartridges to load the handgun, channel5 reported.
The manifesto hinting at what may have motivated the school shooting also included the gunman’s purported struggle with race and racial issues, including the gunman stating he was ‘ashamed to be black’.
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At a school in the city of #Nashville, Solomon Henderson, 17, killed a student, wounded another child and shot himself. The moment of the shooting was recorded on video. Nashville police found the teen’s social media posts “extremely disturbing.” pic.twitter.com/qmLBswoJkN
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Self hating black who idolized white superiority
‘I was so miserable. I wanted to kill myself. I just couldn’t take anymore. I am a worthless subhuman, a living, breathing disgrace,’ the 17-year-old gunman allegedly wrote.
‘All my [in real life] friends outgrew me, act like they didn’t f***ing know me. Becoming me was so f***ing humiliating. That’s why I spend all day dissociating.’
Henderson said he was inspired by Candance Owens, a conservative Black pundit who previously called Nashville home.
‘Candance Owens influenced me above all each time she spoke,’ Henderson wrote.
Henderson is alleged to have also posted a flyer from the Goyim Defense League, which is a neo-Nazi white supremacy group that visited Nashville this summer, along with sharing writings praising Adolf Hitler. In other areas the 17 year old is alleged to have used repeated homophobic and racial slurs, along with admiration for other school shooters.
‘The difference between good and bad criminals depends on how well they were dressed. It depends on what weapon they used. It depends on their posture, their voice, their plan of attack,’ Henderson wrote in one passage.

Question and answer profile
Wrote the 17 year old in one passage: ‘It depends on how they carried it out. It depends on their height, their bone structure, their body fat percentage, their haircut. It depends on who their victim was.
‘Even the very worst of criminal acts are forgiven by simply looking good. Or cool. Or interesting in some way,’ he wrote, before listing his plans to get in better shape.
In a question-and-answer section of the document, Henderson noted that he did not plan to kill any law enforcement officers and did not consider himself a victim of bullying.
‘Personally in my life, I can’t remember a single instance of being bullied, at least not [conventionally],’ the manifesto stated. ‘I was bullied in the culture sense, which everyone is bullied in.’
He then went on to share his thoughts about Antioch High School, just outside of Nashville, which has a majority of black and Hispanic students.
‘School is a daycare,’ he wrote. ‘It’s impossible for you to actually think. You say things because other people have said it before, then go repeat ad nauseum somewhere else.
‘In school, we’re taught to wake up early, shut up, sit for long periods of hours, do tasks you hate, then repeat.’

Self hating incel who couldn’t get laid
Henderson even allegedly included links to other manifestos, a link on how to carry out a mass killing with targets ranked by how easy it would be to murder them, as well as photos of a handgun, a lockpicking kit and cartridges to load into a handgun he planned to use in the shooting.
Investigators allege on the morning of the school shooting, Henderson arriving to the school by bus before entering a bathroom and retrieving a weapon.
Henderson who livestreamed the shooting online, is seen wearing a hoodie just after 11am, when he ‘confronted’ female student, Josselin Corea Escalante, 16, and fired multiple rounds using a pistol, before turning the gun on himself.
Henderson posted on his X page that he saved up enough money to buy a GoPro camera used ‘in the the livestreaming, while stating ‘it was hard to explain to my parents why I needed it, so I couldn’t buy it,’ Raw Story reported.
Another student was also injured with a graze wound to her arm, and was rushed to Vanderbilt University Hospital in stable condition. A fourth boy was being treated for an injury to the face caused during the commotion, with police saying were not shot, Channel 5 reported.
In whether Escalante was intentionally targeted remained unclear, nevertheless the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) stated Henderson was a self hating incel, an acronym for heterosexual male unable to gain the sexual validation of females.
‘What happens on the incel forums … is that people of color are told the only reason they’re incels is because of their color and so it pushes them toward other extreme ideology that he apparently took on,’ an ADL spokesperson told the nypost.
Nashville police have yet to confirm whether the manifesto posted online was that of the school shooter as they continue to investigate its authenticity, WSMV reported.
Commenting on the school shooter, a fellow classmate said of Henderson, ‘he was a smart person,’ adding, ‘he was at top of the class,’ and was ‘quiet.’