Antioch High School students recount chaotic scenes as shooting unfolded, victim's family speaks out

A pupil astatine Antioch High School successful Tennessee says helium saw radical "getting changeable connected the ground" arsenic helium and his classmates raced for the building’s exits during the fatal onslaught that unfolded determination yesterday. 

The accounts describing the chaotic scenes that transpired wrong the Nashville school Wednesday are emerging arsenic investigators are looking for a motive down the attack. Police accidental a 17-year-old pupil shooter – who had posted "very concerning" writings online – killed Josselin Corea Escalante, 16, and wounded different pupil earlier turning the weapon connected himself. 

"We were successful the cafeteria conscionable getting luncheon similar each different day, and we kept proceeding gunfire successful the beforehand of the cafeteria and past radical looked astir screaming. We ran down the garbage cans," 1 pupil told WSMV, recounting the infinitesimal shots rang out. 

"I saw radical getting changeable connected the ground, bleeding," helium added, mentioning however helium and his friends crouched down and ran to a broadside doorway to fly the cafeteria. 

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Jordan Hebert leaves flowers astatine a memorial for the victims of a shooting astatine Antioch High School connected Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, successful Nashville, Tenn. (AP/George Walker IV)

In a separate interrogation with WZTV, the pupil said the shooter "was a monster, conscionable sidesplitting people." 

"Everybody conscionable got separated – a batch of students were outside, inside. He was not a kid that you would think would bash thing similar that, helium stayed connected task, helium did his work, helium was quiet," different pupil told WMSV. "So I was truly wondering what was going done his head. I felt similar conscionable a full speech could person ended each of that, conscionable not led to that." 

One Antioch pupil told WKRN News 2 that she and the alleged gunman "were successful ROTC unneurotic this year, too, and helium was ever apical of the class." 

"I knew him personally. He was successful my class, and I didn’t deliberation helium was thing similar that. I conscionable thought helium was a sweet, quiescent person, but helium wasn’t," said another. 

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The Metro Nashville Police Department responds Wednesday to the shooting astatine Antioch High School. (X/ @MNPDNashville)

The begetter of Josselin Corea Escalante, identified by WTVF arsenic German Corea, said to the presumption that "Every time I told her however overmuch I loved her." 

"It's not fair," helium reportedly added. 

Escalante’s aunt, Maria Corea, besides said to WTVF that "She was a precise calm miss and well-behaved." 

Dasia Pleitez prays arsenic she waits for her girl astatine a unification tract aft a shooting astatine Antioch High School connected Wednesday. (AP/George Walker IV)

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"She had bully grades in school. She was a miss who loved her parents and each her family," Corea added.