How Antioch high school shooter Solomon Henderson evaded AI weapon detection system before opening fire

Antioch High School shooter Solomon Henderson managed to debar an artificial intelligence weapons detection strategy successful the moments earlier helium opened occurrence and killed 16-year-old Josselin Corea Escalante.

Metro Nashville Public Schools had invested much than $1million into the Omnilert system, which works with each of the district's cameras to instantly admit weapons and alert the section constabulary department, the Tennessean reports.

But erstwhile Henderson, 17, retrieved a handgun from the men's room Wednesday morning, the camera strategy did not announcement his weapon.

'In this instance, based connected the determination of the shooter and the presumption of the weapon, it did not activate the system,' schoolhouse territory spokesperson Sean Braisted said astatine a quality league Thursday.

However, erstwhile constabulary and schoolhouse assets officers arrived connected the scene, the strategy did activate.

Omnilert CEO Dave Fraser besides emphasized to NBC News that 'this is not a lawsuit of the firearm not being recognized by the system,' and instead, 'the determination of the shooter and the firearm meant that the limb was not visible.'

Police person said Henderson opened occurrence wrong the schoolhouse cafeteria soon aft 11am, firing respective rounds using a pistol, earlier taking his ain beingness with the weapon.

Another pupil was besides injured with a graze coiled to the arm, and was rushed to the infirmary successful unchangeable condition, portion a 4th lad was injured during the commotion to fly the scene.

Adrienne Battle, the superintendent of Nashville schools, said successful the aftermath that the district implemented a 'range of information measures' including partnerships with the constabulary for schoolhouse assets officers, shatter-resistant movie for solid and information vestibules that supply a obstruction betwixt visitors and the main entrance.

'It each works unneurotic arsenic a system, but 1 strategy unsocial is not going to support radical safe,' Braisted said Thursday.

'And there's besides conscionable the wide nationalist concerns astir however a 17 twelvemonth aged has a weapon.

'I mean, these are questions that are beyond the scope of Metro Schools, but they request to beryllium addressed by the broader community.

'But we are doing what we tin arsenic a territory to instal and equip our schools with the information protocols and resources that we tin usage to beryllium safe.' 

Donald Maye, caput of operations astatine surveillance exertion probe institution IPVM, said Wednesday's shooting 'highlights the challenges schoolhouse districts face'.

'They'll marque these announcements that they've invested millions connected a solution and past determination are inactive galore cases that tin hap wherever the strategy is not going to  beryllium a origin successful preventing violence.'

Amy Klinger, the manager of programs for nonprofit Educator's School Safety Network, added that the astir effectual safeguard schools tin usage to forestall unit are based connected gathering spot among students, teachers and administrators to stock aboriginal signs of imaginable threats - similar erratic behaviour oregon troubling societal media posts.

'In the immense bulk of cases determination is thing of interest - behaviors, disclosures, conversations, informing signs - that if idiosyncratic is paying attraction you could prime up on,' she said. 

'If you harvester that with technology, great. But you can't regenerate it with technology.'

It is present believed Henderson was 'significantly influenced' by web-based materials recovered connected sites constabulary said 'most would find harmful oregon objectionable.'

There are besides online materials that constabulary are investigating, Police Chief John Drake said Wednesday. 

'There are immoderate materials connected the Internet that we're looking at, that's nether investigation,' helium said, according to The Tennessean.

'We judge there's immoderate materials retired there, and possibly they were seen,' helium continued, adding that if idiosyncratic 'said something, possibly much could person been done.' 

Henderson adjacent livestreamed the shooting online, and had written connected his X leafage that helium saved up capable wealth to bargain a GoPro camera 'but it was hard to explicate to my parents wherefore I needed it, truthful I couldn't bargain it,' according to Raw Story. 

But classmates described Henderson to WKRN as a 'smart idiosyncratic [at the] apical of the class' who 'was quiescent and to himself.'

He was besides successful the subject grooming program, and whitethorn person had astatine least one 'prior incident' astatine the precocious school, Drake said astatine a quality league - though helium said helium was unsure of the details.

On Wednesday, constabulary said they received a telephone telephone astir a shooting astatine the schoolhouse wrong conscionable 2 minutes of Henderson opening fire.

Two schoolhouse assets officers were besides wrong the building, but were not successful the contiguous vicinity of the cafeteria, and by the clip they arrived astatine the scene, Henderson had already killed himself. 

Police had initially claimed the teenage shooter took the autobus to schoolhouse that day, authorities person since learned that his parent drove him to the precocious school, according to Fox News.

Officers person besides determined that Henderson fired 10 shots from a 9mm pistol wrong conscionable 16 seconds of entering the cafeteria.

The handgun was loaded with 9 rounds erstwhile it was recovered from the scene, and a mag loaded with 7 rounds was besides recovered from the cafeteria floor. 

The Metro Nashville Police Department's probe has not recovered immoderate transportation betwixt the shooter and the victims.

'It whitethorn beryllium that they were struck by his random gunfire successful the cafeteria,' the section said, WSMV reports. 

But constabulary person determined that the pistol utilized successful the shooting was purchased by an unidentified idiosyncratic successful Arizona successful 2022 and had not been reported stolen. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is present helping the constabulary find however Henderson acquired the weapon.