The shooter, identified by Metro Nashville Police as year-old Solomon Henderson, fired 10 shots within 17 seconds inside a cafeteria shortly after 11 a. One student, a year-old boy, suffered a graze wound to the arm and was treated and released, police said, while another male student sustained a facial injury but was not shot.
Police did not name those victims. There were 83 school shootings in , the most of any year CNN has tracked. School district director Adrienne Battle said the district will enhance security measures in response to the tragedy. The suspect livestreamed himself inside the school minutes before the shooting began, a video posted to the Australian streaming platform, Kick, shows. Authorities are investigating whether the victims were directly targeted by Henderson or struck by random gunfire, Metro Nashville Police said.
Two documents believed to have been created by Henderson were found online, authorities said Thursday. The page and page documents are under investigation, along with evidence recovered from his home Wednesday, according to police. Social media posts and videos posted by the suspect show a history of racist, antisemitic, and violent beliefs. The online writings include a long rambling look into the suspects views on race, religion and society.
They also include a detailed plan of the shooting and a layout of the school. Photos of tools the shooter claimed he would use to carry out his plans and photos of handguns with ammunition are also included in the writings. His writings mention connections with some of them on online messaging platforms. Rupnow, 15, died by suicide after police say she killed a staff member and a student, while wounding six others at her Wisconsin private Christian school.
Law enforcement officials are also working to determine where the handgun Henderson used came from and how he obtained it. The pistol was purchased in Arizona in and had not been reported stolen, Nashville police said Thursday.
