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Solomon Henderson
Hendersonism
Hendersonism refers to the ideology of Solomon Henderson, the mentally ill
school shooter who committed atrocities at
Antioch High School in 2025. He holds
accelerationist,
white nationalist (despite being
African-American) and
neo-Nazi views, and has an obsession with other school shooters, whom he admires and praises.
Henderson has connections to many
extremist platforms, which includes
Soyjack.party,
Terrorgram, and the infamous
764. He has left behind a 288-page digital diary and various social media posts, all filled with hateful, mentally ill and extremist content. He also is interested in gore and
child porn
.
History & Life
Childhood
Solomon Sahmad Charlie Henderson was born to a middle-class family of
Black Hebrew Israelites on 23 March 2007. Solomon claims that his mom was abusing him for long as he can remember, even pointing a gun to his head when he was seven to nine-years-old, and his dad refuses to help, causing him to hate his dad. Solomon struggled to make friends and were rejected often, so he copes by saying that it's easier and better to be hated, stating
ββI haven't had any real friends since 7th grade. I don't want to be loved, I wanted to be hated by all. It's the only real emotion.
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Online Radicalization & Family Troubles
Solomon went online during his teen years and was radicalized down the
Alt-Right pipeline. He found comfort in the
extremist,
trangressivist
white nationalist circles of the online community, with his fellow edgy
misanthrope teens who all praise
school shooters like gods.
It is believed that Solomon ran away from home when he was around 13 or 14 in 2020, and
police was called out to his home according to records with the reasoning being that someone had been reported missing. This was the first emergency call and it was made by Solomon's mother, who reported him as a runaway, and claimed he had punched her in the face and "tried to hit her with a chair before running away." Solomon was later found and arrested in
Clarksville.
The police were called to the Henderson household a few more times in 2023. On one of those occasions, the police came just to find that nobody was even there, so they just left.
According to Solomon, once the police was called over a family argument and two guns ended up being seized. Solomon had actually uploaded a video where his parents could be heard arguing loudly in the background. Due to teen confidentiality, the police haven't been able to speak out on this incident on their own. Solomon's father admitted owning the firearms, but Solomon wrote in his online diary later on 10 January 2025, "I had my house raided once they found a gun it was mine LOL. My dad took the blame." Solomon's father has not yet clarified whether his or his son's version of this event is true.
Solomon Henderson was arrested in November 2023 for
aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, police says that he was downloading
child porn from the
internet. Henderson was in court the morning of 22 January 2025 for a probation violation. He was then dropped off at
Antioch High School by his mother shortly afterward, under the condition that he could only use the internet for schoolwork. Related charges were dropped on 10 April 2024, after Henderson had begun treatment at a mental health facility.
Solomon started a digital diary on 18 October 2024, one where he would detail the majority of his feelings. Throughout the diary, Solomon flips back and forth between being serious and an
internet troll.
Henderson was described as quiet by classmates. Henderson had nonetheless been suspended for two days after bringing a box cutter to school and threatening a
female student on 25 October 2024. He was scheduled to appear in juvenile court due to the incident, but the family of the threatened student decided not to press charges against Henderson, and thus he was granted judicial diversion on 8 January 2025.
The final call to the police was made by a member of the Henderson household in December 2024; police did not visit the dwelling itself. No further information has been provided surrounding this call.
Preparations
On 12 December 2024, Solomon shared a photo in which nails and
Vaseline he had purchased were visible, claiming he was planning to construct an improvised explosive device (IED) with the materials. A few days later on 1 January 2025, Solomon debated on carrying out the attack while he is still seventeen or waiting until his eighteenth birthday in order "to get better equipment like gopro [sic] and better guns." This correlates with Solomon's original goal of murdering ten or more students at the
High School, which would be far more feasible with improved weapons, such as a rifle.
However, by January of 2025, Henderson seems to have altered his plans out of fear of being arrested by
police before he is able to carry out the attack. On 16 January 2025, Henderson wrote "The shooting will happen next Thursday. This is a complete failure and not the original plan I had. Due my incompetent [sic], the law and family issues."
Antioch High School Shooting
The records show that Solomon Henderson was in court the morning of 22 January 2025, to sign a binding document, arising from his October 2023 suspension, declaring that he would be legally unable to purchase firearms or ammunition. His mother dropped Henderson off at
Antioch High School shortly thereafter.
Solomon Henderson went into a school restroom and is believed to have retrieved a weapon there. The handgun was reported to be a 9mm Taurus G2C semi-automatic pistol. The shooting began at 11:09 a.m. (CST) when Henderson confronted 16-year-old female student
Josselin Corea Escalante in the cafeteria and tragically killed her with his handgun. Henderson then fired several more shots then proceeded to shoot himself in the head with the same handgun.
Henderson seems to have attempted to livestream his attack on
Kick, but the livestream cut out. The butt of a gun is visible at the end of his first stream, which was filmed from the POV of the shooter walking around the inside of the school. During the second livestream, which is audio only via a cellphone, law enforcement can be overheard speaking to witnesses at the scene for several minutes, until an officer picks up the phone and cuts the stream.
Two injuries occurred; one caused by being grazed by a bullet and another facial injury following a fall. Both of the injured were students. 10 shots in total were fired during the shooting within 17 seconds. Two magazines were recovered, the one inserted having nine 9mm rounds inside and the other having seven.
The gun used in the shooting was obtained legally in
Arizona in 2022 and had never been reported as stolen. Two school resource officers were in the school building but were not in the cafeteria at the time of the shooting. The school did not have metal detectors.
Aftermath & Response
Parents were initially sent to a local hospital to reunite with their children. They were later taken to a designated reunification center.
Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools has given a phone number for parents to call about the shooting.
The footage of the shooting was removed from
Kick, and the user who streamed it was banned from the service.
Governor
Bill Lee released a statement condemning the schooting. Other state officials and members of the
Nashville Public School Board released their own statements regarding the shooting. The White House also released a report saying that President
Donald Trump was following the situation and offered his sincerest thoughts and prayers.
Beliefs
Solomon Henderson was fueled by violent
misanthropic views,
anti-Black hate and hateful
extremist beliefs including
inceldom and
antisemitism. He subscribed to broad
accelerationist beliefs, which hold that society is irrevocably broken and must be destroyed to be rebuilt, and lauded numerous past school shooters and mass killers, including
Natalie Rupnow whom he had connections with. Henderson cited
Candace Owens as his primary influence.
Writings
Henderson left various pieces of his writings and social media posts. Henderson praised various school shooters in his writings, along with
antisemitic and
racist views. A 288-page digital diary attributed to Henderson, The West Has Fallen β Billions Must Die β Accelerate., expressed a desire to kill people and a fear of being caught by
authorities, the cover being a red glowing "black sun" symbol with a red "impjak" (a type of
soyjak with big ears) in the middle. A separate 51-page document expressed
white supremacist and
neo-Nazi beliefs, including hatred towards minority groups. Henderson, who was
African-American, described himself as a black man who was angry at members of his own race. Henderson's writings are filled with expressions of
anti-Black racism and antisemitism, including calls for the death of or violence against
Jews and the
Nazi phrase "Final Solution to the Jewish question".
Henderson's manifesto opens with "THE WEST HAS FALLEN, THE WEST HAS FALLEN,
BILLIONS MUST DIE, BILLIONS MUST DIE,
ACCELERATE, ACCELERATE, ACCELERATE," the manifesto also lists a string of "soft targets" including
Jews,
Muslims,
immigrants and
LGBT people. Sections of the document were lifted directly from various extremist sources, including many quotes from the
Christchurch Mosque shooter's manifesto and from propaganda by the
Terrorgram Collective. A portion of the manifesto is plagiarized from the 800-page manifesto written by
Matthew Harris, a former
UCLA lecturer who was arrested in 2022 after publishing a manifesto threatening violence against 35 individuals.
Social Media
Across various social media platforms, Henderson lauded a wide range of mass attackers including school shooters and extremist killers. For example, a
Pinterest account shared in his alleged manifesto included images of killers ranging from the
United Healthcare CEO killer to the
2018 Parkland High School shooter to the
2013 Boston Marathon bombers. The bio for the account was a quote taken from
Christchurch shooter's manifesto. On
TikTok, he reposted fan edits of the
Abundant Life shooter and
2015 Mother Emanuel AME Church shooter.
Henderson had a particular fixation on
Natalie Rupnow, referencing her in his
Discord screenname and sharing multiple posts lauding her in the recent weeks of her attacks in 2024. He also showed interest in the
Turkey mosque mass stabber, who created a private
Telegram chat that Rupnow had joined to discuss his attack. Analysts found that Rupnow was following two accounts that are believed to belong to Henderson on
X at the time of her attack, underscoring the growing influence of these
cross-platform networks in fueling
real-world violence.
Henderson was admittedly a frequent user of the imageboard
Soyjak.party, and his manifesto contained several memes and jargon originating from that imageboard. He was also active on a forum dedicated to sharing depictions of graphic violence. Shortly after Henderson's shooting was reported, users on Soyjack.party claimed the shooter had been "groomed" into committing his attack through interactions with other users on the site connected to more extreme networks such as
764. All discussion about Henderson is forbidden on the forum.
Relationships
Friends
Owensism - My primary influence above all!
Rupnowism - My saintressβ¦ I used to be mutuals with someone who is now a real school shooter ;-) let's hook up in the afterlife ππ
Tarrantism - My idol! I use many of your quotes from your manifesto.
KrajΔΓkism - I praise you.
Accelerationism - Burn this entire
world to the ground and rebuild from the beginning.
Misanthropy - I'm burning with hate Hate Will change the
world [sic]
764 - Cvlt 764! Edgy starter packs for my radicalization, but I love gore and CP.
Hitlerism - 88!
Frenemies
Nazism - I am NOT a Nazi, but the
Jews are at fault for poisoning black culture!
Interculturalism - Race mixing is a sin against
God. But
Rupnow on the other handβ¦
Enemies
Black Nationalism - I'm done with "black people". It's f*cking a cycle and f*cking leaving it. BLACK PEOPLE ARE THE WORST!!! WHY DO I HAVE TO BE BLACK?!?!?!!
Antioch High School - EVERYONE HERE ARE N*GGER LOVERS, WIGGERS AND
JEWISH!
How to draw

Hendersonism has a drawing rating of intermediate.
- Draw a ball.
- Draw a black border around the ball, fill the rest with white.
- Draw a grey rectangle in the middle of the white.
- Draw the Black Sun symbol in red, in the middle of the rectangle.
- Add three arrows (green, yellow, red) at the bottom of the Black Sun.
- Add mentally insane eyes and you're done.
| Color Name | HEX | |
|---|---|---|
| White | #FFFFFF | |
| Black | #000000 | |
| Grey | #5E5E5E | |
| Red | #FE0119 | |
| Light Red | #FF9495 | |
| Light Dark Red | #E86466 | |
| Green (Acc) | #0ED145 | |
| Yellow (Acc) | #FFF200 | |
| Red (Acc) | #EC1C24 | |
