Online posts related to the Antioch High School shooter in Nashville, Tennessee, included racist and anti-Semitic content, pictures of handguns, and praise for mass murderers, according to a report. It is said that
Local, state and federal investigators will try to determine why a 17-year-old boy opened fire Wednesday inside a Nashville-area high school, killing Joseline Coria-Escalante, 16, and wounding a 17-year-old. and examining the documents. A one-year-old boy shot himself and took his own life.
“Homicide detectives, along with MNPD law enforcement partners and federal/state agencies, are investigating highly concerning online posts and social media posts. [the teen] when they are trying to establish the motives behind [the teen]”This morning, shots were fired in the Antioch High School cafeteria,” Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) said in a statement.
“The investigation to date has not established a relationship between the two.” [the teen] and two shooting victims. They may have been attacked by his indiscriminate firing in the cafeteria,” police added.
Tennessee school shooting kills one, seriously injures another identified as a teenage student: police
Text posted to a social media account allegedly run by the gunman identified by police includes the layout of Antioch High School, a photo of a handgun, and a photo of a flyer from a neo-Nazi white supremacist group that visited Nashville this summer. Images were included. , According to WTVF.
The agency said the content was anti-Semitic and that the gunman had said he had been thinking about violence for several months.
Metro Nashville police are seen responding to Antioch High School in Antioch, Tennessee, following a shooting on Wednesday. (X/ @MNPDNashville)
The materials also include images of the gunman who killed three children and three faculty members at Nashville's Covenant School in 2023, as well as praise for other mass shooters, WTVF reported. It is said that
Nashville police said in a news conference that the gunman was armed with a pistol and fired multiple shots inside Antioch High School on Wednesday.
Antioch High School on lockdown after shooting
Students and their families leave Antioch High School after the shooting. (AP/George Walker IV)
Online streaming platform Kick said the attack was “partially livestreamed” and that it “quickly banned the account and removed the video.”
“There is no place for violence at KICK. We are actively cooperating with law enforcement and taking all appropriate steps to assist in the investigation,” the statement said.
MNPD said two school resource officers assigned to Antioch High School were in different parts of the building when shots rang out.
“They rushed to the cafeteria and quickly arrived [the teen] He committed suicide,” the police added.
Two people, including the assailant, were killed in the shooting at Antioch High School. (AP/George Walker IV)
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“On behalf of the entire police department, we extend our deepest condolences to the students, parents, and staff of Antioch High School,” Chief John Drake said in a statement. “Our staff and counselors will work to engage you in the healing process in the coming days and weeks.”
Fox News' Christina Shaw and Greg Wehner contributed to this report.
