On Wednesday morning, a pupil at Antioch Excessive Faculty in Nashville walked into the varsity’s cafeteria and fatally shot a pupil earlier than injuring one other pupil after which turning the gun on himself. It was one more mindless gun-related tragedy — and the second high-profile faculty taking pictures in Nashville throughout the final two years — however, this time, the deceased shooter’s profile would possibly shock some individuals, though his ideology shouldn’t.
17-year-old Antioch pupil Solomon Henderson, the teenager recognized by Metro Nashville Police because the shooter, was Black. Nevertheless, if the alleged manifesto he left behind, which has been making the rounds on social media, proves to be genuine, he wished he wasn’t.
From The Tennessean:
Nashville Police Chief John Drake stated throughout a 2:30 p.m. information convention there are on-line “supplies” which are factoring into the police’s investigation.“As to a motive, we’re wanting into that,” Drake stated. “There are some supplies on the web that we’re that’s underneath the investigation.”
A virtually 300-page doc posted on the X social media platform comprises quite a few selfies of what seems to be the shooter with numerous alt-right paraphernalia scattered between statements towards “race mixing,” needs to “take revenge” on society, statements praising Adolf Hitler and pages of specific pictures from earlier faculty shootings.
Social media accounts linked within the doc and scattered throughout many platforms together with X, Kick, TikTok and extra centered closely on “groyper” content material — a nickname utilized by many on-line white nationalist and neo-Nazi teams — in addition to “incel” content material, a reputation referring to younger males who declare to be “involuntarily celibate” and espouse extremely violent misogynistic views.
Authorities are nonetheless investigating whether or not the written manifesto presupposed to be authored by Solomon is genuine, however whether it is reliable, it reveals that the shooter was a self-loathing Black conservative who referred to himself as Uncle Ruckus, stated he “was ashamed to be Black,” railed towards what he referred to as “n*gger tradition” and declared that “Candace Owens influenced me above all every time she spoke,” in response to WTVF. He additionally allegedly talked about different outstanding right-wing speaking heads like loud and proud white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who, by the way in which, nearly appears proud to have his identify dropped by the shooter.
“Our analysts situated a sprawling manifesto filled with anti-Black content material, references to accelerationism and antisemitism,” stated Carla Hill, senior director of investigative analysis on the Anti-Defamation League Middle on Extremism. “It additionally plagiarized from numerous far-right manifestos and publications, together with Terrorgram Collective and a manifesto by Matthew Harris.” (Harris is a former UCLA lecturer who was arrested in 2022 after circulating an 800-page manifesto titled “Demise Senetences” threatening violence towards 35 people.)
Once more, it’s unclear, at this level, the place investigators are in authenticating the alleged manifesto, but when it’s reliable, it’s one more instance of white supremacist extremism turning lethal, whatever the shooter’s race.
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