The boy who carried out a shooting on students in a Nashville school cafeteria this week, killing one, may have connected online with the Wisconsin school shooter from a month ago. Authorities investigated 17-year-old Solomon Henderson's online accounts which showed connections between him and 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow.
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Nashville and Wisconsin School Shooters Connected Online
Rupnow carried out a terrifying shooting in Abundant Life Christan School in Madison, Wisconsin that killed three and injured many. One of the people killed was a teacher. Similarly, Henderson pulled a gun on students at Antioach High School on Wednesday wounding one and killing a 16-year-old girl. Both perpetrators died on the scene.
Now, police have discovered that Rupnow was following Henderson on social media before she died. This is despite the fact that the two lived 600 miles apart. On top of that, Henderson posted an edited photo of Rupnow just one day before the Nashville shooting on his Bluesky account.
Henderson also left a post on this account sharing his desire for a second person to help him perform the shooting. Other than Bluesky, Henderson had a Pinterest account featuring photos of past school shooters. According to a source who spoke with ABC News, it included shooters from Parkland, Florida, and Uvalde, Texas.
Police also revealed that Henderson had two documents on "non-traditional websites, one 51 pages in length, the other 288 pages." The former document contained "violent white supremacist beliefs," according to the outlet. Despite not being white himself, Henderson expressed hating himself for being a black person.
"I was so miserable. I wanted to kill myself," the manifesto read. Henderson continued with a myriad of negative thoughts toward himself. "I just couldn't take anymore. I am a worthless subhuman, a living, breathing disgrace."
The two teens both held dangerous neo-Nazi ideologies as noticed from their digital footprints. We're unsure if they had direct messages or chat logs with each other, but perhaps future reports will unveil this.
For now, we just know that they knew of each other and possibly wanted to carry out these acts together. The shootings were a month apart, after all, so it's no surprise that Henderson and Rupnow were tied to each other.
