NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As an investigation into the deadly shooting at Antioch High School continues, more details have come to light on the shooter.
The Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) identified the shooter as 17-year-old Solomon Henderson. Students at the school described Henderson as “quiet.” ABC News reported “the suspected shooter praised mass shooters and showed an affinity for extremist views.”
Gregory Lerime, the uncle of an Antioch High School student, told News 2 “pulled out a knife” on his niece about a month prior to publication.
“She called me and told me the situation. I guess the dude pulled out a knife on her probably about a month ago. They had court on the eighth for it,” Lerime said. “She called me and asked me do I think she should press charges for it. I was like ‘I don’t think you should press charges for it.'”
Lerime repeatedly said he questioned whether the family made the right call.
“It broke me down, in a way, because now, I don’t know if I did the right thing telling my sister, ‘Don’t press charges,'” Lerime added. “If she would have pressed charges, [I] don’t know if it would have kept him in jail or anything.”
Lerime said his niece has been shaken up by Wednesday’s shooting.
“Nowhere’s safe, honestly. She’s shaken up about the situation, especially, with what happened before. Fast forward to what’s going on now — she’s still shaken up. She has mentioned she doesn’t want to go back to another school, but we just gotta let things die down and move on from there.”
Lerime added that he thought metal detectors could have been useful in possibly preventing Wednesday’s shooting.
“If we had metal detectors, he wouldn’t have got into the school. He [would have] had to face security before he entered school, so metal detectors in school — I honestly believe — are very important,” Lermine said. “I have a kid in school. The mother of my child is an educator in school, so I don’t want to get no call one day — any of them — that something’s happened.”
News 2 reached out to the Juvenile Court of Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County. However, the court said state law prevented them from releasing information on specific cases.
