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JANUARY 30, 2025 | VOLUME 37 | NUMBER 3
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Scenes following a shooting at Antioch High School, Jan. 22, 2025 PHOTO: HAMILTON MATTHEW MASTERS
Relatives of Antioch High School shooting victim Josselin Corea Escalante advocate for gun reform at the Tennessee General Assembly Jan. 27. PHOTO: HAMILTON MATTHEW MASTERS
Scenes following a shooting at Antioch High School, Jan. 22, 2025 PHOTO: HAMILTON MATTHEW MASTERS
Two dead in Antioch High shooting
Antioch community mourns victims of nation’s first school shooting of 2025 HAMILTON MATTHEW MASTERS, JULIANNE AKERS, HANNAH HERNER, ELI MOTYCKA
Two students are dead and two are injured following a shooting at Antioch High School on Jan. 22. Metro Nashville Police Department confirmed that 17-year-old Solomon Henderson fired multiple shots in the school’s cafeteria at 11:09 a.m. 16-year-old Josselin Corea Escalante was killed and another male student was wounded when a bullet grazed his arm. Another student fell in the cafeteria and injured his face. The shooter then shot himself in the head and died.
Caiden Taylor, a senior at Antioch High School, was in a lunch line in the cafeteria when he heard five shots in quick succession. He told reporter Hamilton Matthew Masters, who was on the scene the afternoon of Jan. 22, that he dropped to the floor and didn’t look back up. “I just ran out from the cafeteria through the exit … and I just went to my vehicle and just left,” Taylor said. “I heard it, I heard everything.” Taylor’s mother Stephanie Honeywell —
who was waiting to be reunited with Taylor’s brother, another Antioch student — was among the roughly 200 parents waiting at the reunification site at Ascension Saint Thomas Medical Partners Antioch. Sen. Charlane Oliver (D-Nashville), who represents the area where the shooting took place, released a statement. “My heart is broken over the devastating shooting at Antioch High School today,” said Oliver. “As a mother and a representative of this community, I grieve with the families,
students, and staff who are enduring this unimaginable tragedy. My heart goes out to the victims who were shot, their loved ones, and everyone impacted by this horrific act of violence. No child should ever feel unsafe in their school, and no family should face the anguish of such a senseless loss.” Ibtihal Cheko, a Nashville student involved with gun reform advocacy group Students Demand Action and one of the The News sister publication the Nashville Scene’s 2023 Nashvillians of the Year, >> PAGE 2
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