Nashville school shooter praised Hitler in manifesto, planned to kill more

Authorities successful Nashville are reviewing the online writings and societal media of alleged precocious schoolhouse shooter Solomon Henderson, who constabulary accidental killed 16-year-old Josselin Corea Escalante earlier fatally shooting himself successful the Antioch High School cafeteria connected Wednesday.

One pupil suffered a graze coiled portion different suffered a facial wounded but was not shot.

Police are inactive investigating whether the victims were targeted.

An online diary kept by the 17-year-old shooter included praise for wide murders and a program to termination “at slightest 10 people” successful bid to articulation their ranks, according to Nashville’s News Channel 5.

Henderson’s diary — described arsenic a “sprawling manifesto afloat of anti-Black content, references to accelerationism and antisemitism” — begins successful October and allegedly details his “slipping” intelligence authorities arsenic helium feared “being fedded [stopped by instrumentality enforcement] before” his program could travel to fruition.

The diary reportedly includes photos of Adolf Hitler and selfies of Henderson, who is Black, making white-power gestures.

“I’m burning with hate,” Henderson wrote successful his archetypal entry. “Hate volition alteration the world. Race mixing is simply a misdeed against God.”

“Only the sick mentally volition praise maine aft my decease and the lone bully n—-r is simply a dormant n—-r, which includes me,” helium besides wrote.

Other revelations successful the diary see accusation astir Henderson’s societal media accounts being suspended for praising acts of wide unit and other schoolhouse shootings, including astatine the massacre astatine a Nashville simple school successful 2023.

He wrote of his alleged steps toward gathering a bomb, reasoning astir sidesplitting his parents and mounting up bombs astatine different schools arsenic a diversion during his attack.

As “Day Zero” approached, Henderson described having to alteration his archetypal plans.

“Tomorrow is the day,” helium wrote immoderate clip connected Tuesday, on with a selfie of himself successful a Junior ROTC uniform. “I was readying connected Thursday but I request to velocity things up. I don’t person a batch of time. Holy s–t I’m nervous, frightened and excited astatine the aforesaid time.”

According to the Anti-Defamation League, portions of the alleged manifesto were plagiarized from akin documents, including 1 written by the 2019 wide shooter successful Christchurch, New Zealand and 1 from erstwhile UCLA doctrine prof Matthew Harris, who was arrested successful 2022 aft calling for unit against achromatic and Jewish people.

The enactment said it was an denotation that Henderson was apt radicalized connected the internet.

“These online spaces not lone glorify convulsive fantasies, extremist ideologies, and wide killers but besides substance offline unit — acts that are often arsenic incomprehensible arsenic the ideologies that thrust them,” Oren Segal, VP of the ADL Center connected Extremism, said successful a statement.