Solomon Henderson: Everything we know about Nashville teen named as Antioch High School shooter

Nashville schoolhouse shooter Solomon Henderson was an intelligent, but quiescent pupil astatine Antioch High School, wherever helium was a subordinate of the school's ROTC program, earlier helium opened occurrence connected Wednesday.

The 17-year-old was described by an unidentified classmate 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, Chief John Drake of the Metro Nashville Police Department said astatine a quality league - though helium said helium was unsure of the details.

The time connected Wednesday started similar immoderate other, with Henderson arriving astatine the schoolhouse successful the Nashville suburb connected a bus.

It is believed helium past entered a bathroom, wherever helium retrieved a weapon.

The teen was then seen wearing a hoodie just aft 11am, erstwhile helium 'confronted' Josselin Corea Escalante, 16, and fired aggregate rounds utilizing a pistol, earlier helium turned the weapon connected himself.

Another pupil was besides injured with a graze coiled to her arm, and was rushed to Vanderbilt University Hospital successful unchangeable condition.

Police besides said a 4th lad was being treated for an wounded to the look caused during the commotion, but they were not shot, Channel 5 reports. 

Metro Nashville Police Department spokesperson Don Aaron said the section received its archetypal telephone conscionable 2 minutes aft Henderson opened 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. 

It remains unclear whether the students were targeted, and a motive for the shooting remains unclear.

But Chief Drake noted determination were online materials that the constabulary section is investigating. 

'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.' 

Terrifying footage showed the shooting unfold wrong the cafeteria, with gunshots and screams echoing done the luncheon room. 

An unidentified cameraman tin beryllium seen edging person to the country of the shooting past saying: 'Oh, helium changeable himself.'

The borderline of what appears to beryllium a idiosyncratic lying down connected the tiled level is disposable for a infinitesimal earlier the clip ends. 

A pupil successful the cafeteria astatine the clip of the incidental besides described the terrifying scene.

'People successful the cafeteria they usage spot bags to marque it dependable similar a gun, but it was repeatedly going disconnected and I turned astir and I saw the shooter shooting radical I knew,' 12th people pupil Ahmadsallah told WZTV.

'The shooter was benignant of covered, helium had a hoodie on. It was conscionable a rush, it made maine privation to bash thing brainsick I was trying to tally retired determination and assistance people, but my caput was truthful cluttered, I didn't cognize what to do.

'There was a batch of screaming, a batch of terror. People were frightened to die, determination was moving similar idiosyncratic was chasing them, similar helium was a monster conscionable sidesplitting people.

'I consciousness relieved and harmless but I consciousness atrocious for the victims who mislaid their lives,' helium added.

Chante Frye, whose girl is successful ninth people astatine the school, says she got a substance from the youngster to accidental she'd been locked down wrong her classroom.

'But it's astir not astonishing due to the fact that it's getting worse with the fights and the unit astatine school,' Frye told The Tennessean. 

Adrienne Battle, the superintendent of Nashville schools, said the territory had already implemented a 'range of information measures' including partnerships with the constabulary for schoolhouse assets officers, information cameras with weapon-detection software, shatter-resistant movie for solid and information vestibules that supply a obstruction betwixt visitors and the main entrance.

'Unfortunately, these measures were not capable to halt this tragedy,' she lamented.

Battle besides noted determination were questions astir installing metallic detectors.

'While past probe has shown they person had limitations and unintended consequences, we volition proceed to research emerging technologies and strategies to fortify schoolhouse safety.'

In the meantime, constabulary said they volition behaviour tests connected the weapon utilized successful the shooting, and volition hunt Henderson's home.

Antioch High School volition besides stay closed for the remainder of the week.