Juvenile records show Nashville teen on probation at time of Antioch High School shooting

Juvenile court records of the teen who fatally shot a student before fatally shooting himself Jan. 22 at Antioch High School was on probation at the time of the shooting for pulling a box cutter on a student.
Two weeks before Solomon Henderson fatally shot 16-year-old Josselin Corea Escalante, a Jan. 8 ruling said Henderson required treatment or rehabilitation and was ordered to judicial diversion, a court-ordered program for juvenile offenders, after a 2024 incident when he brought a box cutter to school.
The records release comes after Tennessee lawmakers passed legislation this year allowing for such documents to be released.
Henderson was charged with carrying a box cutter on school property in October 2024 as well as reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon.
The file notes that Henderson was ordered to stay away from a student, whose name was redacted in the report. It also said Henderson would be home schooled and supervised by his mother.
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Records show the box cutter incident happened on or around Oct. 24, 2024, and the victim in the case was a female student..
When questioned by school administration, the female student said the two were walking to lunch when she said "hey" to Henderson. When he didn't hear her, the report said the female said "hey" again and her turned to her and pulled the box cutter from his jacket pocket and exposed the blade before walking to a table and sitting down.
The report said Henderson said he would "cut anyone" that walks up on him. Henderson told school officials the unnamed student came up with her friends saying they were going to "jump him."
A second incident reported in Henderson's file showed the teen was charged in November 2023 with one count each of aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor and sexual exploitation of a minor for downloading child pornography.
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The teen admitting to downloading sexual images and videos of minor children and posting them to various Discord server accounts, records show.
Henderson was released to his parents and was ordered to not use social media and not have access to the internet, cell phones or computers, according to filings.
Chaos unfolded at Antioch High School at 11:09 a.m. Jan. 22 as Henderson, armed with a pistol, opened fire in the school's cafeteria, fatally wounding Escalante before using the weapon on himself.
MNPD Chief John Drake said it was not clear if the shooting was targeted, or if there was a motive behind it. He said at the time that an investigation was underway, and there were a variety of leads.
In the wake of the shooting, Adrienne Battle, the MNPS director, said multiple safety measures were in place at Antioch High, including school resource officers, a secured vestibule at the entrance and cameras with weapon-detection software.
This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Nashville teen brought weapon to Antioch High before shooting

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