Nashville school shooter’s social media account was flagged to FBI prior to attack
Raw StoryA social media account connected to the teenage shooter who killed a 16-year-old student at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee, before taking his own life on Wednesday was flagged to the FBI more than a month before he carried out the attack. A social media account connected to Henderson may have been in contact with Rupnow’s social media account, ABC News reported, citing unnamed law enforcement sources. I barely know her.” In another post, the account connected to Henderson complained: “Feds will arrest random teenagers but not actual criminals.” Later, the user wrote: “Who knows I may get visit. Henderson also said in the manifesto that he had been inspired by Rupnow, along with four other so-called “new gen” attackers, adding that he had “connections with some of them only loosely via online messaging platforms.” Marc-André Argentino, a senior researcher at the Accelerationism Research Consortium, wrote in a blog post that Henderson’s “social network behavior indicates an individual who is not only part of the true crime community, but an individual who was in touch with past school shooters” such as Rupnow.
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