On Wednesday morning, a scholar at Antioch Excessive Faculty in Nashville walked into the college’s cafeteria and fatally shot a scholar earlier than injuring one other scholar after which turning the gun on himself. It was yet one more mindless gun-related tragedy — and the second high-profile faculty capturing in Nashville throughout the final two years — however, this time, the deceased shooter’s profile may shock some individuals, though his ideology shouldn’t.
Antioch scholar Solomon Henderson, 17, the teenager recognized by Metro Nashville Police because the shooter, was Black. Nonetheless, 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 might be 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 taking a look at that’s below the investigation.”
A virtually 300-page doc posted on the X social media platform incorporates 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 images from earlier faculty shootings.
Social media accounts linked within the doc and scattered throughout many platforms together with X, Kick, TikTok and extra targeted 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 professional, 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 known as “n*gger tradition” and declared that “Candace Owens influenced me above all every time she spoke,” in accordance with WTVF. He additionally allegedly talked about different distinguished right-wing speaking heads like loud and proud white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who, by the best way, virtually appears proud to have his identify dropped by the shooter.
“Our analysts positioned a sprawling manifesto stuffed 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 “Dying Sentences” 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 professional, it’s yet one more instance of white supremacist extremism turning lethal, whatever the shooter’s race.
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