Antioch High School is a public high school located in
Antioch, Tennessee, a neighborhood of
Nashville.
Perpetrator photo of Henderson
Solomon Sahmad Charlie Henderson (March 23, 2007January 22, 2025) was identified as the perpetrator. According to the
Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, Henderson cited music such as "
incelcore" or "
shootercore" in his manifesto along with
Kanye West, as influencing his violence. He was also active on a forum dedicated to sharing depictions of
graphic violence. According to the
Anti-Defamation League, Henderson was self-described as a "mentalcel", defined as "someone who identifies as an involuntary celibate (
incel) on the basis of an intellectual or learning disability". He also appeared "to have been versed in the subculture of
Com". Instead, he was granted
judicial diversion on January 8, 2025, two weeks before the shooting. Records from Henderson's time as a student at nearby
John F.Kennedy Middle School stated that Henderson reportedly told something "troubling" to a teacher, and staff had found something described as "concerning" on his school laptop. However, the nature of these incidents is confidential since Henderson was only 14 at the time. The first emergency call was made in 2020 by Henderson's mother. She claimed that Henderson had
run away from home, not before allegedly punching his mother in the face and trying to throw a chair at her. He was later found and arrested in
Clarksville, Tennessee. Henderson's motive for fleeing his home remains unknown. Another visit occurred in October 2023 after Nashville police department received a theft report. A search of the home resulted in zero arrests, however two firearms were confiscated. A few days later on January 1, 2025, Henderson debated on carrying out the attack while he is still seventeen or waiting until his eighteenth birthday in order "to get better equipment like and better guns." This correlates with Henderson's self stated goal of murdering ten or more students at the High School. However, by January of 2025, Henderson seemed to have altered his plans out of paranoia of being arrested before he was able to carry out the attack. On January 16, 2025, Henderson wrote "The shooting will happen next Thursday. This is a complete failure and not the original plan I had. Due my , the law and family issues." == Shooting ==