Months of continuing investigation into the murder-suicide inside Antioch High School one year ago has confirmed that shooter Solomon Henderson, 17, acted alone and had no co-conspirators.
Shortly after 11 a.m. on January 22, 2025, Henderson entered the school’s cafeteria during a lunch period, and within 17 seconds, randomly fired a total of ten shots from a nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol. Student Josselin Corea Escalante, 16, was shot in the back and fatally wounded. A 17-year-old male student suffered a graze wound to the arm.
As to the motive, detectives closely scrutinized on-line material left by Henderson, including writings on non-traditional websites and in journal entries, before concluding that Henderson idolized mass murderers from around the world, referred to them as “saints,” and longed to have the “sainthood” that he believed they had achieved. Henderson mirrored antisemitic and white supremacist ideologies, and was strongly influenced by satanic and violent extremist material on the Internet…